DoLS Authorised Signatory

Liquid Personnel is recruiting an Adult Social Worker to join its client’s Locum DoLS Authorised Signatory team, based in Rotherham.

What will your responsibilities be?

In this role, you will:

• DoLS assessments — Review, quality‑assure, and sign off Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards assessments completed by Best Interests Assessors and Mental Health Assessors to ensure they meet legal and statutory requirements.
• Authorising DoLS applications — Make decisions on whether a deprivation of liberty is lawful and proportionate, issuing standard or urgent authorisations in line with the Mental Capacity Act.
• Multi‑agency liaison — Communicate with care homes, hospitals, families, advocates, and health professionals to gather information, provide guidance, and ensure the person’s rights and best interests remain central.

Qualifications & Experience:

To be successful in this role you must have:

• Social Work England registration
• Eligible to work in the UK
• Hold a full UK driving licence
• Post-qualified experience
• Degree level or equivalent in Social Work

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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