Job Description

Job Title: Social Worker - Adult Safeguarding
Location: Cheshire East
Rate: £35 per hour

What will your responsibilities be?
In this essential role within Adult Safeguarding, you will be responsible for carrying out social work assessments and providing advice and guidance to service users. You will liaise and work closely with contacts from different sectors, including health and the voluntary sector, as part of a multi-disciplinary team. Ensuring effective communication and sharing knowledge and best practices will be key. You will review and monitor care plans and the quality of service provision, responding to changing needs. This includes developing and evaluating reablement programs as part of care packages to support independence. You will manage your own caseloads or specific projects to ensure specialist inputs are obtained and effective outcomes achieved. Raising awareness of a range of care issues and their implications, carrying out risk assessments, and completing safe methods of work practice guides will be part of your responsibilities to ensure that needs are assessed and appropriate action is taken.

Benefits of the role:

• High pay rate compared to nearby authorities
• Working for a stable and reputable local authority
• Realistic expectations from the Management team and regular supervision
• Hybrid working

Qualifications and Experiences:
To be successful in this role, you must have registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), be eligible to work in the UK, hold a full UK driving license, have post-qualified experience, and hold a degree level or equivalent qualification in Social Work.

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 0345 241 9590.

Why Liquid Personnel?

• New ‘Faster Pay’ service getting you paid more quickly
• Twice weekly payroll
• Free DBS and compliance service
• 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 *

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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