Job Description

Job Title: Social Worker – Safeguarding Adults Team
Location: Oxfordshire
Salary: £37,053 – £39,513 per annum
Relocation package up to £8,000 (subject to policy criteria)
Hours: 37 per week
Contract: Permanent
Flexible Working Options Available

About the Role:

Liquid Personnel is working with our client's Adult Safeguarding Team based in Oxfordshire as they deliver Delivering the Future Together, an ambitious programme transforming adult social care across the county. This is an excellent opportunity to join an exciting team, where the focus is on empowering people, strengthening practice, and achieving positive outcomes.

As a Social Worker, you will triage safeguarding concerns and carry out proportionate Section 42 enquiries, ensuring Making Safeguarding Personal (MSP) is central to all decisions. You will work collaboratively with adults, families, carers and partner agencies, using a strengths‑based, risk‑enablement approach to promote safety, wellbeing and independence.

The service offers regular supervision, manageable caseloads, ongoing professional development, and a supportive, reflective working environment that values curiosity and professional autonomy.

Key Responsibilities:

• Undertake safeguarding enquiries in line with the Care Act 2014, ensuring adult‑centred, meaningful safeguarding practice.
• Triages safeguarding concerns and work within agreed timeframes and statutory requirements.
• Carry out holistic, strengths‑based assessments, reviews and interventions with adults, families and carers.
• Develop person‑centred support plans focused on outcomes, independence and informal/community networks.
• Complete assessments for equipment, assistive technology, and housing adaptations; provide advice on moving and handling where required.
• Manage a varied and complex caseload independently while contributing to duty systems and emergency responses.
• Maintain high‑quality, accurate, and defensible case records, reports and documentation.
• Apply professional judgement to balance choice, control, risk, and protection.
• Work effectively with a range of multi‑disciplinary partners to achieve the best outcomes for adults at risk.
• Identify and escalate safeguarding concerns appropriately, ensuring compliance with local and national policy.
• Participate in continuing professional development, including opportunities to progress toward roles such as Practice Educator, Best Interest Assessor or Approved Mental Health Professional.
• Contribute to service development, team meetings, and organisational learning.

About You

You will be a reflective, committed Social Worker with a genuine passion for safeguarding and empowering adults. You’ll bring confidence, resilience, and curiosity to your work, alongside strong organisational and communication skills.

Essential requirements:

• Qualified Social Worker with current Social Work England registration.
• Experience working within adult safeguarding, including Section 42 enquiries.
• Strong understanding of the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005 and Making Safeguarding Personal.
• Ability to work proactively and independently in a fast‑paced environment with changing priorities.
• Sound decision‑making skills within a risk‑enablement context.
• Excellent record‑keeping, report writing and IT skills.
• Ability to build strong relationships with adults, carers and partner agencies.

Desirable criteria:

• Post‑qualifying training (e.g., BIA, AMHP, Practice Educator), or willingness to work towards it.
• Experience of equipment provision, moving and handling, or housing adaptation processes.

Rewards & Benefits:

• Up to 33 days’ annual leave, plus bank holidays, with the option to buy additional leave.
• Membership of the Pension Scheme, employer contribution up to 19.9%.
• Relocation package up to £8,000 (subject to policy criteria).
• Regular formal and informal supervision with strong management support.
• Extensive CPD opportunities and structured career progression pathways.
• Access to a wide range of local and national discounts.
• Flexible working options including part‑time, job share, flexi‑time and nine‑day fortnights.

Important Information:

• Please note: We are unable to support or accept applications from individuals currently residing in countries listed on the Red or Amber list under the Code of Practice for the International Recruitment of Health and Social Care Personnel in England, based on the WHO Workforce Support and Safeguard List.

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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