Liquid Personnel
Social Worker - Community Team
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Liquid Personnel is recruiting Social Worker for its client's Adult Community Team at Wiltshire.
This is an exciting opportunity to work within a compassionate and person-centred service that supports adults aged 18 and over who are living with physical disabilities, chronic and long-term conditions, autism, and sensory impairments.
The successful candidate will join a supportive and collaborative team where wellbeing, respect, integrity, and professional development are highly valued. You will work closely with individuals, families, carers, health professionals, and community partners to deliver strengths-based interventions that promote independence, dignity, and positive outcomes. This role offers the opportunity to manage complex casework whilst contributing to best practice, safeguarding adults, and supporting the ongoing development of colleagues within Adult Social Care.
What will your responsibilities be?
- Undertaking complex, person-centred assessments to identify eligible needs, strengths, risks, and desired outcomes.
- Managing a varied caseload of adults with physical disabilities, sensory impairments, autism, and long-term health conditions.
- Completing Care Act 2014 assessments, reviews, and support planning to promote independence and wellbeing.
- Developing, implementing, and reviewing person-centred Care and Support Plans that reflect individual needs and outcomes.
- Undertaking Mental Capacity Assessments and leading Best Interest decision-making processes where required.
- Progressing safeguarding enquiries, including Section 42 enquiries, and ensuring vulnerable adults are protected from abuse, neglect, and exploitation.
- Assessing and managing risk through strengths-based and proportionate interventions that support positive risk-taking and independence.
- Supporting carers in complex situations and ensuring carers' needs are appropriately identified and addressed.
- Working closely with multidisciplinary teams, NHS colleagues, housing providers, voluntary organisations, and other partner agencies to coordinate effective support.
- Preparing high-quality assessments, reports, court documentation, and professional records, including Court of Protection reports where required.
- Representing Adult Social Care within multidisciplinary meetings, safeguarding meetings, and other professional forums.
- Providing advice, guidance, mentoring, and informal supervision to colleagues, newly qualified social workers, and students where appropriate.
- Maintaining accurate, timely, and legally compliant case records and documentation.
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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: Significant post-qualified experience within Adult Social Care, including complex case management and safeguarding work.
- Legislation Knowledge: Strong understanding of the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Continuing Healthcare guidance, Court of Protection processes, and Adult Safeguarding legislation.
- Assessment Skills: Proven experience undertaking complex assessments, reviews, support planning, and risk management.
- Safeguarding Experience: Experience undertaking Section 42 enquiries and managing safeguarding concerns involving vulnerable adults.
- Multi-Agency Working: Strong experience of working collaboratively with health services, community organisations, carers, families, and partner agencies.
- Communication Skills: Excellent interpersonal, negotiation, report-writing, presentation, and decision-making skills.
- Professional Development: Commitment to continuous professional development and supporting the learning and development of others.
- Driving Licence: Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle is desirable due to the community-based nature of the role.
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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 *
*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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