Social Worker - Learning Disabilities

Liquid Personnel is recruiting anAdult’sSocial Worker to join its client’s Learning Disabilitiesteam, based in Leeds.

What will your responsibilities be? 

• Undertake a wide range of complex assessments including Community Care and Best Interest Assessments and construct innovative and cost-effective solutions
• Carry out Safeguarding investigations within multi-agency procedures
• Carry out risk assessments and identify needs and options
• Using a person-centred approach, develop and maintain effective relationships with service users, their families and carers enabling them to make informed choices
• Promote independence and early intervention, helping resolve conflict where needed
• Contribute to the enhanced screening of new referrals and existing service users
• Work in courts with appropriate support to obtain and implement court orders
• Contribute to the development of practice and services
• Carry out specific pieces of work on cases that are allocated to other teams
• Undertake the Practice Educator Level 2 role
• Participate in the Approved Mental Health Practitioner (AMHP) rota where qualified
• Undertake the office duty role as required

Benefits: 

• Competitive hourly rate in-line with nearby authorities
  
• Stable and well supported team with high staff retention 
  
• On-site parking

Qualifications and 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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