Job Description

Job Title: Social Worker - Learning Disabilities
Location: Walsall
Pay Rate: £28.40 per hour

About the Role:

Liquid Personnel is recruiting Adult Social Workers to join its client’s Learning Disabilities Team based in Walsall. In this role, you will support adults (18+) with a diagnosed learning disability to lead safe, independent, and fulfilling lives. This is a person-centred and strengths-based role, requiring collaboration with multiple agencies to meet care and support needs in line with the Care Act 2014.

What will your responsibilities be?

In this role, you will

• Complete Care Act assessments to determine eligible care and support needs for patients ready for discharge.
• Develop and implement strengths-based support plans in collaboration with the individual, their family, and professionals.
• Work effectively within a multi-agency team including hospital discharge coordinators, nurses, OTs, and physiotherapists.
• Undertake safeguarding enquiries under Section 42 where appropriate, ensuring adult protection procedures are followed.
• Carry out Mental Capacity Act assessments, and contribute to best interest decisions when capacity is in question.
• Support timely discharge planning, ensuring that delayed transfers of care are minimised.
• Respond to urgent or unplanned referrals via the duty system, triaging and prioritising cases based on presenting risk.
• Promote the use of community-based resources, reablement, and preventative services to avoid unnecessary readmission.
• Maintain high-quality, accurate, and timely case records using systems such as Mosaic.
• Contribute to regular reviews and reassessments to ensure that support remains proportionate and effective.

Qualifications & Experience

• Professional Qualification: MA, BA, BSc in Social Work, Diploma in Social Work, or CQSW.
• Registration: Must be registered with Social Work England.
• Experience: Substantial experience working with vulnerable adults, including those with complex needs.
• Legislation Knowledge: Strong understanding of the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005, and safeguarding procedures.
• Skills: Excellent assessment, analysis, and communication skills. Ability to work collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary setting.
• Driving Licence: Full UK driving licence and access to a car is often required for community visits.

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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