Job Description

Our client based in Central Bedfordshire is seeking an experienced Social Worker to join their Adult Social Care Reviewing Team on a project basis. This is an excellent opportunity for a skilled practitioner to focus on reviewing and evaluating existing care and support arrangements, ensuring that adults with care and support needs continue to receive effective, person-centred services that promote independence, wellbeing, and positive outcomes.

The successful candidate will work closely with individuals, families, carers, and partner agencies to undertake strengths-based reviews, reassess needs, and ensure care and support plans remain appropriate, proportionate, and outcome-focused. You will play a key role in delivering high-quality social work interventions, safeguarding adults at risk, and ensuring compliance with adult social care legislation and best practice standards.

What will your responsibilities be?

• Undertaking strengths-based reviews and reassessments for adults with care and support needs, ensuring support remains appropriate and outcome-focused.
• Assessing the needs of individuals, families, and carers using recognised assessment frameworks and evidence-based practice.
• Reviewing, updating, and evaluating Care and Support Plans to ensure they reflect changing needs, strengths, wishes, and outcomes.
• Working collaboratively with service users, carers, families, NHS colleagues, Housing services, Police, Education, voluntary sector organisations, and other partner agencies.
• Promoting independence, wellbeing, and positive risk-taking through person-centred social work practice.
• Undertaking safeguarding enquiries and interventions in accordance with relevant legislation and safeguarding procedures.
• Responding to crisis situations, ensuring immediate protection, risk reduction, and the promotion of positive outcomes.
• Completing Mental Capacity Assessments and contributing to Best Interest decision-making processes where required.
• Planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating social care interventions in line with legislative requirements and best practice guidance.
• Managing a varied caseload and prioritising work effectively to meet service demands and project timescales.
• Maintaining accurate, timely, and high-quality case recordings, reviews, assessments, and reports.
• Working autonomously whilst maintaining professional accountability and contributing positively to team objectives and service improvements.

Qualifications and Experience:

To be successful in this role you must have;

• Professional Qualification: MA, BA, BSc in Social Work, Diploma in Social Work, CQSW, or equivalent recognised Social Work qualification.
• Registration: Must be registered with Social Work England (SWE).
• Experience: Significant post-qualified experience within Adult Social Care, including assessment, review work, safeguarding, and care planning.
• Legislation Knowledge: Strong understanding of the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Adult Safeguarding legislation, and associated statutory guidance.
• Assessment Skills: Proven ability to undertake strengths-based assessments, reviews, risk assessments, and person-centred support planning.
• Safeguarding Experience: Experience responding to safeguarding concerns, crisis situations, and implementing protective interventions where required.
• Multi-Agency Working: Experience working effectively with NHS services, Housing, Police, Education, voluntary organisations, and other partner agencies.
• Communication Skills: Excellent assessment, report-writing, communication, and decision-making skills.
• Personal Qualities: Resilient, organised, self-motivated, and able to work independently while managing competing priorities.
• Driving Licence: Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle is desirable due to the community-based nature of the role.

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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