Experienced Social Worker

Liquid Personnel is seeking an Experienced Social Worker (3+ years PQE) to join its client's Emergency Duty Team (EDT) in Nottingham. This is a generic, frontline out-of-hours service providing a statutory response to emergency safeguarding concerns for both children and adults that cannot wait until daytime services resume.

What will your responsibilities be? 

• Emergency Response: Provide a statutory response to safeguarding worries for children and vulnerable adults during out-of-hours periods (evenings, weekends, and Bank Holidays).
• Generic Assessments: Undertake assessments under both Child and Adult Safeguarding procedures, managing high-risk situations independently.
• Referral Management: Receive, prioritize, and record referrals from the public, family members, and partner agencies on the Liquid Logic database.
• Crisis Intervention: Take immediate action to safeguard welfare, including the accommodation of vulnerable children and responding to emergency planning/Business Continuity Plan (BCP) links.
• Specialist Duties: Respond to Mental Health Act (MHA) assessment requests, Child Death processes, and Significant Incident Briefings (SIB).
• Advice & Signposting: Provide expert telephone support, advice, and guidance to citizens and partners, signposting to relevant services where the emergency threshold is not met.
• Case Recording: Ensure all information is accurately recorded on Liquid Logic, providing clear handovers to daytime services for the next working day.

Working Hours and Schedule:  

• Team Remit: Out-of-hours only.
• Weekdays: 16:50 – 08:30 hours.
• Weekends & Bank Holidays: 24-hour coverage.
• Base: Loxley House (37 hours per week average).

Our Commitment: 

• Statutory Excellence: We provide a vital safety net for the citizens of Nottingham, ensuring that professional social work support is available 24/7.
• Integrated Support: Work as part of a dedicated team that bridges the gap between emergency crisis and long-term casework teams.

Qualifications and Experience: 

To be successful in this role you must have;  

• Social Work England registration and a recognized Social Work qualification.
• Experience Requirement: Minimum of 3 years’ post-qualified experience, ideally with experience in an emergency duty or fast-paced safeguarding environment.
• Generic Knowledge: Ability to work across both Children’s and Adult’s statutory frameworks.
• Driving: A full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle are essential, as you will be required to travel both inside and outside the council area.
• IT Proficiency: Experience using Liquid Logic is highly preferred. 

Why Liquid Personnel?

•  Free DBS and compliance service
• Twice weekly payroll and ‘Faster Pay’ service, getting you paid more quickly
• Access to exclusive roles that aren’t available from other agencies
• Free access to Liquid’s exclusive social work training and CPD portal
• Your own dedicated consultant with extensive social work knowledge
• Access to a wide selection of social work positions across the UK
• “Refer a Friend” bonus – get £500 for each social worker you refer who we successfully place*
• “Find your own job” bonus – get £250 for bringing your own position to us *

Liquid Personnel is an equal opportunities employer. Liquid Personnel Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. * Terms and conditions apply to our bonus schemes.

Reasonable Adjustments:

If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity by contacting our team. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.

We are unable to support or accept applications from candidates who are residents within the Red or Amber list of the Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England, based on the World Health Organisation (WHO) Workforce Support and Safeguard List. 

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