Social Worker - Assessment and Safeguarding

Job Title: Social Worker - Assessment and Safeguarding
Location: Haringey
Pay Rate: £32.52 per hour

Job Description:

Liquid Personnel is recruiting a Social Worker for its client’s Assessment and Safeguarding Team in Haringey. The role involves delivering high-quality, person-centred social work within a fast-paced Assessment and Safeguarding Team. Responsibilities include responding to new referrals, conducting statutory assessments, and managing safeguarding concerns to ensure the safety, dignity, and well-being of vulnerable adults.

What will your responsibilities be?

• Undertake Care Act 2014 assessments to determine eligibility for services and support needs.
• Lead and coordinate Section 42 safeguarding enquiries, ensuring timely and proportionate responses to risk.
• Apply Mental Capacity Act 2005 principles, completing Mental Capacity Assessments and Best Interest decisions.
• Respond to incoming referrals from professionals, families, and the public, triaging and prioritising cases effectively.
• Develop and review strengths-based support plans that promote independence and wellbeing.
• Work collaboratively with health professionals, housing, police, and voluntary sector partners to deliver integrated support.
• Maintain accurate and timely case records using the council’s case management system (e.g., Liquid Logic, Mosaic).
• Advocate for service users, ensuring their rights are upheld and their voices are central to decision-making.
• Contribute to service development and safeguarding awareness across adult social care.

Benefits:

• Make a Difference: Help change the lives of adults
• Great Team: Work with a supportive and collaborative crew.

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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