Job Title: Qualified social worker
Location: Bury Council
Working hours: Mon - Fri, 08:45 - 17:00
Rate: £30 per hour
The Bury Council is currently recruiting for an experienced and qualified Social Worker to join their Adults Safeguarding team, offering a pay rate of £30 per hour.
What will your responsibilities be?
In this role, you will manage a dynamic and complex caseload, balancing risk, choice, and individual rights. You will also undertake duty worker functions to screen new safeguarding concerns, manage immediate risks, and make decisions per Section 42 criteria. You will engage in mental capacity and best interest work, including Court of Protection when necessary. Additionally, you will support students, newly qualified, and less experienced colleagues with their development and complex cases. You will lead Section 42 enquiries under the Care Act 2014, focusing on achieving customer outcomes and promoting 'Making Safeguarding Everybody's Business'.
Benefits:
* Hybrid work
* Generic caseload
* Supervision and Training available
Qualifications and Experiences:
* Social Work England registration
* Experience working with adult safeguarding experience of managing Section 42 enquiries in line with the Care Act 2014 is essential
* Eligible to work in the UK
* Hold a full UK licence
* Degree level or equivalent in Social Work
* Post-qualified experience
How to apply?
If this is a job for you, feel free to apply below or if you want to learn more about it, please contact
Why Liquid Personnel?
* New 'Faster Pay' service getting you paid more quickly
* Twice weekly payroll
* 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.
Reasonable Adjustments:
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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