Social Worker – Mental Health

Our client based in Neath Port Talbot is seeking an experienced Social Worker to join their Mental Health Team. This is an excellent opportunity for a skilled practitioner to work with adults experiencing mental health needs, supporting them to achieve positive outcomes, maximise independence, and improve their wellbeing through strengths-based and person-centred practice.

The successful candidate will work closely with individuals, carers, families, health professionals, and partner agencies to assess needs, coordinate services, manage risk, and develop effective support plans. Working within a multidisciplinary environment, you will play a key role in safeguarding vulnerable adults, promoting recovery, facilitating access to community resources, and ensuring individuals remain at the centre of all decision-making.

This role requires a confident Social Worker with strong assessment skills, experience of complex case management, and a comprehensive understanding of mental health practice, safeguarding, capacity assessments, and partnership working.

What will your responsibilities be?

In this role, you will:

• Managing a complex caseload of adults with mental health needs, ensuring timely and effective social work interventions.
• Undertaking strengths-based assessments in partnership with individuals, families, carers, and professionals to identify needs, risks, and desired outcomes.
• Developing, implementing, coordinating, and reviewing person-centred care and support plans that promote recovery, independence, and wellbeing.
• Identifying and utilising community resources, natural support networks, and local services to support individuals in achieving their outcomes.
• Working collaboratively with health professionals, partner agencies, carers, and community organisations to deliver coordinated care and support.
• Undertaking Mental Capacity Assessments and facilitating Best Interest decision-making in accordance with the Mental Capacity Act.
• Completing Continuing Healthcare (CHC) assessments and contributing to multidisciplinary eligibility processes where required.
• Undertaking safeguarding enquiries and initiating appropriate action to protect adults at risk from abuse, neglect, exploitation, and self-neglect.
• Carrying out risk assessments and applying Positive Risk Taking principles to support individuals safely and effectively.
• Conducting non-criminal investigations as part of Adult at Risk processes and safeguarding procedures.
• Attending and contributing to case conferences, multidisciplinary meetings, reviews, and safeguarding meetings, providing a professional social work perspective.
• Chairing reviews, meetings, and case conferences where required.
• Undertaking financial assessments in accordance with relevant charging frameworks and policies.
• Supporting hospital discharge planning and community-based interventions to prevent unnecessary admissions where appropriate.
• Maintaining accurate, timely, and legally compliant case recording, assessments, reports, and documentation.
• Contributing to service development, team learning, continuous improvement initiatives, and professional development activities.
• Supporting colleagues with complex casework and providing guidance on high-risk situations and interventions where required.
• Undertaking Approved Mental Health Professional duties if qualified and required by the service.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Professional Qualification: Degree in Social Work, Diploma in Social Work, CQSW, CSS, or equivalent recognised Social Work qualification.
• Registration: Must be registered with Social Care Wales.
• Experience: Significant post-qualified experience within Adult Mental Health Services or Adult Social Care.
• Mental Health Experience: Proven experience working with adults experiencing complex and enduring mental health needs.
• Legislation Knowledge: Strong understanding of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Mental Health Act 1983, Adult Safeguarding legislation, and associated statutory guidance.
• Assessment Skills: Experience undertaking complex assessments, support planning, capacity assessments, CHC assessments, and safeguarding enquiries.
• Risk Management: Ability to undertake complex risk assessments and apply positive risk-taking approaches effectively.
• Multi-Agency Working: Strong experience working collaboratively with health professionals, partner agencies, carers, and community organisations.
• Communication Skills: Excellent report-writing, presentation, assessment, analytical, negotiation, and decision-making skills.
• Leadership Skills: Experience supporting less experienced staff and contributing to team development is desirable.
• Professional Practice: Commitment to strengths-based, person-centred, recovery-focused practice and continuous professional development.
• Driving Licence: Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle is desirable due to the community-based nature of the role.

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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