Senior Social Worker – Community Team
Liquid PersonnelShropshire, United Kingdom · Posted 17 days agoDescription
Liquid Personnel is recruiting an experienced Senior Social Worker – Community Team for its client's Community Team based in Shropshire. This is a fantastic opportunity for a skilled Adult Social Care professional to support adults across the North Shropshire locality, delivering strengths-based interventions that promote independence, wellbeing, and positive outcomes.
As a Senior Social Worker, you will work with older adults, people with physical disabilities, and individuals with complex care and support needs. You will manage a complex caseload, undertake statutory assessments, contribute to safeguarding processes, and work collaboratively with partner agencies to help individuals remain safely within their communities.
Benefits of the Role
- Competitive pay 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
- Flexible and autonomous working environment
- Meaningful opportunity to improve outcomes for adults and carers
- Ongoing professional development and learning opportunities
What You Will Be Doing
- Undertaking Care Act 2014 assessments, reviews, and support planning for adults and carers.
- Managing a complex caseload and delivering high-quality social work interventions.
- Applying strengths-based practice to maximise independence and wellbeing.
- Developing and reviewing person-centred care and support plans.
- Contributing to safeguarding enquiries and adult protection procedures.
- Undertaking Mental Capacity Assessments and supporting Best Interest decision-making.
- Supporting safe and timely hospital discharges into the community.
- Coordinating services to prevent unnecessary admissions and promote independent living.
- Working closely with health professionals, housing providers, carers, and partner agencies.
- Identifying and managing risk while promoting individual choice and autonomy.
- Ensuring service users and carers are actively involved in assessment and planning processes.
- Maintaining accurate case records, reports, and statutory documentation.
What We Are Looking For
- Social Work qualification (BA, BSc, MA Social Work, DipSW, CQSW, or equivalent).
- Current registration with Social Work England (SWE).
- Significant post-qualified experience within Adult Social Care.
- Strong understanding of the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005, and Adult Safeguarding legislation.
- Experience undertaking complex assessments, reviews, and support planning.
- Experience contributing to safeguarding investigations and risk management processes.
- Hospital discharge and community social work experience.
- Proven ability to work effectively within multi-agency environments.
- Excellent communication, report-writing, analytical, and decision-making skills.
- Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle is desirable.
How to Apply
If you are an experienced Senior Social Worker looking for your next opportunity within Adult Social Care, we'd love to hear from you.
Apply now or contact me on 0161 234 9795 for a confidential discussion and further information.
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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