Liquid Personnel
Social Worker - Adult MASH
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Liquid Personnel is recruiting Social Worker for its client's Adult MASH Team at Dorset.
This is an excellent opportunity for a skilled practitioner to work within a busy and supportive safeguarding service, supporting adults with care and support needs who may be experiencing, or at risk of, abuse and neglect.
Working within a multi-agency environment, you will undertake safeguarding enquiries, manage complex cases, and work collaboratively with individuals, carers, providers, health professionals, and partner agencies to achieve positive outcomes. The successful candidate will be confident working with risk, safeguarding concerns, and complex decision-making, whilst promoting wellbeing, independence, and person-centred practice.
What will your responsibilities be?
- Undertaking Section 42 Safeguarding Enquiries in accordance with the Care Act 2014 and local safeguarding procedures.
- Managing a varied Adult Social Care caseload involving safeguarding concerns, risk management, and complex support needs.
- Undertaking assessments, risk assessments, and safeguarding interventions to protect adults at risk and promote positive outcomes.
- Conducting community-based visits with service users, carers, families, and care providers.
- Working collaboratively with health professionals, care providers, advocacy services, and other partner agencies to coordinate effective safeguarding responses.
- Promoting independence, wellbeing, and strengths-based approaches that place individuals at the centre of decision-making.
- Assessing and managing risk, ensuring appropriate safeguarding plans and interventions are implemented.
- Applying relevant legislation including the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005, and Adult Safeguarding guidance.
- Maintaining accurate, timely, and high-quality case records, assessments, safeguarding documentation, and reports.
- Participating in multi-agency meetings and contributing to coordinated safeguarding and care planning activity.
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Qualifications & 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.
- Experience: Significant experience within Adult Social Care and safeguarding practice.
- Safeguarding Experience: Previous experience undertaking Section 42 Safeguarding Enquiries is essential.
- 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 complete assessments, risk assessments, safeguarding enquiries, and case management activity.
- Multi-Agency Working: Experience working effectively with health professionals, care providers, families, and partner agencies.
- Communication Skills: Excellent communication, report-writing, analytical, and decision-making skills.
- Driving Licence: Ability to travel within the community to undertake visits and assessments.
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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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