Social Worker - Assessment Team - Bradford

Bradford

Liquid Personnel is currently recruiting a Qualified Social Worker to join Bradford's West Duty & Assessment Team

As a Social Worker within the Assessment Team, you will:

Undertake preventative work with service users to diminish safeguarding concerns, investigating concerns of significant harm and making appropriate use of legislation to safeguard and promote the welfare of service users

To provide a Social Work service to individuals, their families and carers by assessing and identifying their needs and meeting them through direct therapeutic work, care planning and management. Be able to integrate a theoretical approach with practice

Manage a caseload, exercising complex decision making in line with professional criteria and making sure that case work is appropriately planned, critically evaluated and reviewed

Engage effectively with situations of increasing complexity and challenge including multi-agency input, complex family organizational dynamics, multiple problems/disadvantage, multiple significant risk factors, and the need to take into account the public interest.

Ensure appropriate care for service users ensuring the best use of existing mainstream and specialist resources, and demonstrating innovation with these resources where appropriate

Accept responsibility for and supervision of service users who are provided with care services and undertake expert and robust review of such cases

Provide expert witness and give evidence to court and other relevant bodies as required, including giving evidence in court in proceedings, and including the presentation of reports and applications for appropriate Legal Orders

Work in partnership with other agencies and organizations, in order to fulfil the provision of a Social Work service, representing the perspective of the organization. Maintain contact with a wide range of statutory and voluntary sector professionals for information exchange, the exercise of judgment and in order to influence outcomes in case planning and decision making

Contribute to multi-disciplinary assessments, chairing and leading meetings when required and participate in planning meetings and reviews, demonstrating and promoting information sharing within/between organisations

Mentor newly qualified and less experienced Social Workers to develop their expertise and/or offer placements to Social Work students as a practice educator

To self-manage your own challenging and demanding workload of cases, seeking support where necessary, and undertake research, and apply knowledge regarding emerging best practice

Participate in the provision of training throughout the department, assisting in the development of new resources, working on specialist projects and acting as a member of a professional development or service planning group

Identify and act on your learning needs to participate continuously in professional development opportunities, including regular supervision and appraisal, in line with Social Work registration and HCPC standards

Apply Social Work ethical principles and values to guide your professional practice and decision making including partnership, consultation and the participation of service users

Maintain up to date, accurate, concise and purposeful records of work in line with the departmental policy on case recording and access to files, producing high quality assessments that accurately assess and manage higher levels of risk and complexity.

To act in accordance with the priorities and policies of the department, actively promoting and supporting the council policies on equality and working in an anti-oppressive manner

As a Social Worker within the Assessment Team, you are required to:

Hold a Social Work England registration

Be eligible to work in the UK

Hold a full UK license

Social Work Qualification, degree or equivalent

At least 2 years' experience as a social worker within children's services

Why Liquid Personnel?

'Faster Pay' service getting you paid more quickly

Twice weekly payroll and an internal 'hours' team

Free DBS and compliance service

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.

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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