Senior Social Worker – Community

Our client based in Shropshire is seeking an experienced Senior Social Worker to join their Community Team, supporting adults across the North Shropshire locality. This is an excellent opportunity for a highly skilled practitioner to work with older adults, people with physical disabilities, and individuals with complex care and support needs, delivering strengths-based and person-centred interventions that promote independence and wellbeing.

The successful candidate will manage a complex caseload whilst providing high-quality assessments, care planning, safeguarding interventions, and professional social work support. Working within Adult Social Care, you will play a key role in helping people remain safely within their own homes and communities, reducing reliance on long-term services wherever possible. You will work collaboratively with health professionals, carers, families, and partner agencies to achieve positive outcomes and support effective service delivery.

What will your responsibilities be?

• Undertake Care Act 2014 assessments, reviews, and support planning for adults and carers.
• Manage a complex caseload, ensuring statutory duties are completed to a high professional standard.
• Apply strengths-based practice to maximise independence, resilience, and community participation.
• Develop and review person-centred care and support plans tailored to individual needs and aspirations.
• Contribute to safeguarding enquiries and Multi-Agency Protection of Vulnerable Adults procedures.
• Undertake Mental Capacity Assessments and contribute to Best Interest decision-making in line with the Mental Capacity Act 2005.
• Support individuals in hospital settings to facilitate safe and timely discharge back into the community.
• Coordinate support services that prevent unnecessary hospital admissions and promote independent living.
• Work in partnership with health professionals, housing providers, carers, voluntary organisations, and other agencies.
• Assess and manage risk effectively while balancing individual choice, rights, and autonomy.
• Promote active involvement of service users, carers, and families in assessment and care planning processes.
• Maintain accurate case records, assessments, reports, and support plans in accordance with legislative and organisational requirements.

Benefits of the role:

• Competitive hourly rate of £31.97 per hour.
• Opportunity to work within a supportive and experienced Adult Social Care team.
• Diverse and rewarding caseload across the North Shropshire locality.
• Exposure to complex assessment, safeguarding, and hospital discharge work.
• Collaborative multidisciplinary working environment.
• Ongoing professional development opportunities.

Qualifications and Experience:

• MA, BA, BSc in Social Work, Diploma in Social Work, CQSW, or equivalent recognised Social Work qualification.
• Registered with Social Work England (SWE).
• Significant post-qualified experience within Adult Social Care.
• Strong knowledge of the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Adult Safeguarding legislation, and associated statutory guidance.
• Experience undertaking complex assessments, reviews, support planning, and risk management.
• Experience contributing to safeguarding investigations and multi-agency adult protection procedures.
• Previous hospital discharge and community-based social work experience.
• Strong partnership-working skills with health professionals, carers, and statutory and voluntary sector organisations.
• Excellent communication, analytical, report-writing, and decision-making skills.
• Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle is desirable.

How to Apply

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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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