Job Description

Job Title: Senior Practitioner - Safeguarding Team
Location: Greenwich
Pay Rate: £35 per hour

Liquid Personnel is recruiting a Senior Practitioner to join its client’s Safeguarding Team, based in Greenwich.
The role involves delivering high-quality, person-centred social work within the Adult Safeguarding Team, ensuring the safety, dignity, and wellbeing of vulnerable adults. Responsibilities include managing safeguarding concerns, undertaking statutory assessments, and working collaboratively with multi-agency partners to reduce risk and promote independence.

What will your responsibilities be?

• Lead and coordinate Section 42 safeguarding enquiries in line with the Care Act 2014.
• Undertake risk assessments, Mental Capacity Assessments, and Best Interest decisions.
• Respond to safeguarding alerts and referrals, ensuring timely and proportionate interventions.
• Work closely with health professionals, police, housing, and voluntary sector partners to ensure a multi-agency approach to safeguarding.
• Develop and review care and support plans that promote safety, independence, and wellbeing.
• Maintain accurate and timely case records using the council’s case management system (e.g., Liquid Logic, Mosaic).
• Apply professional curiosity and strengths-based approaches to all aspects of practice.
• Attend safeguarding strategy meetings, case conferences, and court proceedings as required.
• Promote awareness of safeguarding across the wider adult social care service and contribute to service development

Why Join Us?

• Make a Difference: Help change the lives of adults
• Great Team: Work with a supportive and collaborative crew.

Qualifications and Experience:

To be successful in this role you must have.

• Social Work England registration
• Eligible to work in the UK
• Hold a full UK driving licence
• Post-qualified experience
• Degree level or equivalent in Social Work

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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