Social Worker – Older Adult's Team

Job description

Liquid Personnel is recruiting an experienced Adult Social Worker for its client’s Older Adults Team. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a supportive Adult Social Care service, working with older adults and their families to promote independence, wellbeing, and positive outcomes. **What will your responsibilities be?** As an Adult Social Worker within the Older Adults Team, you will: - Complete Care Act assessments, reviews, and support planning for older adults, ensuring needs are assessed accurately and appropriate services are arranged to promote independence and wellbeing. - Undertake safeguarding enquiries and risk assessments, working collaboratively with service users, families, and partner agencies to investigate concerns and implement safeguarding plans where required. - Manage a busy duty and case management workload, responding to urgent referrals, providing timely interventions, maintaining accurate case records, and ensuring compliance with relevant legislation and local authority procedures. **Benefits** - Flexible Working Arrangement – Hybrid working opportunities with a mix of office and community-based work, providing flexibility while maintaining close support from the team. - Diverse & Rewarding Caseload – Opportunity to work with older adults across a varied care management service, undertaking assessments, safeguarding enquiries, and duty work that make a real difference to people's lives. - Supportive Team Environment – Work within an experienced Adult Social Care team with access to regular supervision, multidisciplinary working, and ongoing professional development opportunities. **Qualifications & Experience**To be considered for this role, you will need: - A recognised Social Work qualification (Degree/DipSW/CQSW or equivalent). - Registration with Social Work England. - Experience within Adult Social Care, ideally working with older adults. - Sound knowledge of the Care Act 2014, safeguarding procedures, and relevant social care legislation. - Strong assessment, risk management, and case management skills. - Eligibility to work in the UK. - A full UK driving licence is desirable. **Interested?** If this is a job for you, feel free to click apply below or if you want to learn more about it, please contact me for more information. **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 - 203189 GH - 36533