Senior Social Worker – Community Team

Liquid Personnel is recruiting an Adult’s Social Worker to join its client’s Community team, based in Dudley.

This is an excellent opportunity for a highly skilled practitioner to provide professional leadership and deliver high-quality social work interventions to adults with complex care and support needs within the community.

The successful candidate will act as an exemplary practitioner, promoting strengths-based and person-centred practice whilst supporting adults and their carers to maximise independence, maintain relationships, and remain active members of their local communities. You will play a key role in managing complex casework, undertaking safeguarding responsibilities, supporting colleagues, and contributing to service development within a busy Adult Social Care environment.

What will your responsibilities be? 

• Managing a complex caseload involving adults with a range of care and support needs, ensuring timely and effective interventions.
• Undertaking Care Act assessments, reviews, support planning, and complex case management using strengths-based and enabling approaches.
• Completing Mental Capacity Assessments and contributing to Best Interest decision-making processes where required.
• Leading safeguarding enquiries and making threshold decisions in line with Adult Safeguarding procedures and the principles of Making Safeguarding Personal.
• Providing professional leadership, mentoring, and support to social workers, ASYEs, trainees, students, and social care colleagues.
• Participating in duty systems and supporting operational decision-making, including deputising for Assistant Team Managers and Team Managers when required.
• Chairing and facilitating assessment, safeguarding, planning, and review meetings.
• Coordinating, implementing, and reviewing support plans to ensure individuals achieve positive and personalised outcomes.
• Working collaboratively with service users, carers, health professionals, community organisations, and partner agencies to deliver integrated support.
• Promoting independence through community resources, preventative services, Direct Payments, and Personal Budgets.
• Contributing to service improvement, quality assurance activities, and the ongoing development of best practice within Adult Social Care.
• Maintaining accurate and timely assessments, reports, case records, and documentation in accordance with legislative and organisational requirements. 

Qualifications and Experience: 

To be successful in this role you must have;  

• Professional Qualification: MA, BA, BSc in Social Work, Diploma in Social Work, or CQSW.
• Registration: Must be registered with Social Work England.
• Experience: Significant post-qualified Adult Social Care experience, including complex case management and safeguarding work.
• Legislation Knowledge: Strong understanding of the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Human Rights legislation, and Adult Safeguarding procedures.
• Leadership Skills: Experience providing professional support, mentoring, supervision, or guidance to colleagues.
• Assessment Skills: Excellent assessment, analytical, communication, and report-writing skills with the ability to exercise professional judgement in complex situations.
• Multi-Agency Working: Proven experience working effectively with health services, community organisations, carers, and partner agencies.
• Safeguarding Experience: Experience leading safeguarding enquiries and managing risk within complex adult social care cases.
• Driving Licence: Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle is desirable. 

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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