Social Worker – Learning Disabilities
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About this role
Liquid Personnel is recruiting an Adult’s Social Worker to join its client’s Learning Disabilities team, based in Havering.
What will your responsibilities be?
- Manage a diverse caseload of adults with learning disabilities, including complex cases depending on experience.
- Work closely with adults, carers, healthcare professionals, and community partners to deliver positive and lasting outcomes.
- Undertake person-centred assessments, reviews, and support planning.
- Complete safeguarding enquiries and risk assessments to protect vulnerable adults.
- Promote independence and ensure individuals receive the right support at the right time.
- Support safe hospital discharges and work to prevent avoidable admissions.
- Develop and review personalised care and support plans.
- Work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team alongside health and social care professionals.
- Maintain accurate and timely case records and reports.
- Contribute to service development and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Provide mentoring or supervision support to colleagues where appropriate.
Benefits:
- Hybrid and flexible working arrangements
- Ongoing training, CPD, and career development opportunities
- Supportive management and collaborative team environment
Qualifications and Experience:
To be successful in this role you must have;
- A recognised Social Work qualification
- Current Social Work England (SWE) registration
- Experience undertaking assessments, reviews, and safeguarding interventions within adult social care
- Good knowledge of the Mental Capacity Act and relevant legislation
- Strong multi-agency partnership working skills
- Excellent communication, organisational, and problem-solving abilities
- A compassionate, proactive, and person-centred approach to practice
- A commitment to delivering high-quality outcomes for adults and their families
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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