
Job Title: Adult Social Worker - Assessment and Care Team - Newham
Location: Newham (Hybrid)
Rate: £32.12 Per Hour
About the Role:
The London Borough of Newham Council is seeking a replacement locum Social Worker to join their team. This role involves performing assessments, care planning, and case reviews for a number of sheltered accommodation schemes. If you are passionate about making a difference in the community and have the necessary qualifications, we would love to hear from you.
What will your responsibilities be?
In this role, you will conduct Care Act assessments of needs, especially for extra care sheltered accommodation voids. You will also be responsible for carer’s assessments and reviews, the completion of scheduled reviews, and safeguarding enquiries. Additionally, you will present cases at panels, including joint funded panels, and work with the legal team to prepare statements and attend court hearings.
Benefits:
Qualifications & Experience:
To be successful in this role you must have,
How to apply?
If this is a job for you, feel free to click apply below or if you want to learn more about it, please contact 02038979851 / chloe.armstrong@liquidpersonnel.com
Why Liquid Personnel?
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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Liquid Personnel is a specialist social work and healthcare recruitment consultancy. Founded in 2006, we are now the leading provider of agency social workers in the UK, trusted by over 150 organisations nationwide to provide exceptional agency staff.
We also specialise in the following divisions:
• Nursing - temporary and permanent nurses
• Allied Health Professionals - temporary occupational therapists and physiotherapists
• Criminal Justice - temporary prison nurses, probation officers, and youth offending officers
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- Listed in the UK's Best Medium Workplaces Awards 2013 - 2017; winners of the Laureate Award 2017, recognising that we have been ranked in the awards for 5 years in a row
- 24th in The Sunday Times 100 Best Small Companies to Work For 2016
- Winners of the Best People Development Business Award and Best Back Office Support Team Award 2016 at the Institute of Recruitment Professionals Awards
- 7th fastest-growing business in the Manchester area in the Greater Manchester Fastest 50 2016
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- Holders of Investors in People status
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