Liquid Personnel

Senior Social Worker - Community Mental Health

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Job Description

Liquid Personnel is recruiting an Adult’s Social Worker to join its client’s Community Mental Health team, based in Bromley (South East London).

This is an excellent opportunity for a skilled practitioner with mental health experience who is looking to take on a senior role within a multidisciplinary setting. Alongside managing a complex caseload, you will provide professional leadership on Care Act and AMHP practice, support the Team Manager, supervise Social Work staff, and contribute to the ongoing development of mental health services.

The role offers the chance to combine frontline Social Work with leadership, mentoring, safeguarding, and service development responsibilities within a supportive and integrated Health and Social Care environment.

What will your responsibilities be?

  • Hold a complex caseload and provide assessment, intervention, and support to adults with mental health needs and their carers.
  • Deliver Care Act assessments, support planning, reviews, Personal Budgets, and Direct Payments.
  • Provide specialist advice and guidance on Care Act duties and Adult Social Care practice.
  • Undertake safeguarding responsibilities, including Enquiry Officer and Safeguarding Adult Manager roles.
  • Carry out Mental Health Act duties as an Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP).
  • Provide professional supervision, mentoring, and support to Social Workers and less experienced team members.
  • Support Practice Education for Social Work students and AMHP trainees.
  • Chair and participate in planning meetings, safeguarding meetings, reviews, and case conferences.
  • Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary colleagues and partner agencies to deliver positive outcomes.
  • Support the Team Manager in ensuring Adult Social Care priorities are embedded within service delivery.

Benefits:

Qualifications and Experience:

To be successful in this role you must have;

  • Professional Qualification: MA, BA, BSc, Diploma in Social Work, CQSW, CSS, or an equivalent recognised Social Work qualification.
  • Registration: Must be registered with Social Work England.
  • Experience: Must have post-qualified Social Work experience.
  • Work Eligibility: Must be eligible to work in the UK.
  • Driving Licence: Must hold a full UK driving licence.

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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About Liquid Personnel

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

Accreditations:

- 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

- 11th in Recruiter Fast 50 2016 rankings

- Winners of "Best Large Recruitment Agency"​ at the Recruitment Business Awards 2015

- Holders of Investors in People status

- Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) Members

- 'Disability Confident Employers'​

Industry
HR & Recruiting
Company Size
51-200 employees
Headquarters
Manchester, GB
Year Founded
2006
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