Social Worker – Front Door Team

Job description

Our client based in Worcestershire is seeking an experienced Social Worker to join their Front Door Team. This is an excellent opportunity for a dedicated practitioner to work with adults and carers at the first point of contact, promoting wellbeing, independence, and access to community resources through strengths-based and person-centred practice. The successful candidate will support adults with complex and fluctuating needs, undertaking meaningful conversations, assessments, support planning, safeguarding interventions, and crisis response work. Working collaboratively with individuals, carers, health professionals, community resources, and partner agencies, you will play a key role in helping people regain control of their lives, reduce risks, and achieve positive outcomes within their local communities. This role requires a confident and autonomous Social Worker with strong knowledge of Adult Social Care legislation, safeguarding, risk management, and multidisciplinary working. **What will your responsibilities be?** In this role, you will: Undertaking strengths-based conversations, assessments, reviews, and support planning with adults and carers in accordance with the Care Act 2014. - Managing complex cases involving adults with fluctuating needs, increased risks, and crisis situations. - Supporting adults to maximise independence, wellbeing, and access to community resources and informal support networks. - Working collaboratively with partner agencies to ensure coordinated, multi-agency responses that promote positive outcomes. - Applying the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005, and Mental Health Act 1983 appropriately within day-to-day practice. - Undertaking Mental Capacity Assessments and contributing to Best Interest decision-making processes. - Completing Section 42 safeguarding enquiries and applying the principles of Making Safeguarding Personal. - Assessing and managing risk effectively whilst promoting positive risk-taking and individual choice. - Identifying potential Deprivation of Liberty issues and ensuring the least restrictive options are explored prior to legal intervention. - Completing Continuing Healthcare (CHC) Checklists and contributing to Decision Support Tool processes where required. - Developing creative, outcome-focused Care and Support Plans that maximise independence and meet eligible needs. - Working with adults and carers experiencing crisis situations, helping them regain control and plan for the future. - Promoting the welfare of children and appropriately escalating safeguarding concerns where identified. - Representing the service and individuals at multidisciplinary meetings, reviews, safeguarding meetings, and legal proceedings where required. - Participating in duty functions and responding to referrals in line with service requirements. - Maintaining accurate, timely, and legally compliant records, assessments, reports, and support plans. - Supporting the development of social care staff, newly qualified social workers, students, and colleagues through mentoring, shadowing, and reflective practice. **Qualifications & Experience:** To be successful in this role you must have: **Professional Qualification:** MA, BA, BSc in Social Work, Diploma in Social Work, CQSW, CSS, or equivalent recognised Social Work qualification. - **Registration:** Must be registered with Social Work England. - **Experience:** Significant post-qualified experience within Adult Social Care services. - **Legislation Knowledge:** Strong understanding of the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Mental Health Act 1983, Adult Safeguarding legislation, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards, and Continuing Healthcare processes. - **Assessment Skills:** Proven ability to undertake complex assessments, reviews, support planning, and risk management interventions. - **Safeguarding Experience:** Experience completing Section 42 enquiries and managing complex safeguarding concerns **Interested?**Apply now or get in touch with us to learn more about this opportunities. **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. BH -203034 GH - 36463