Qualified Social Worker

Location: Merseyside

Pay rate: £43 per hour

Our client is looking for Qualified Adult Social Workers to join the Adults Team. We are looking for experienced and passionate Social Workers to join the Team. All candidates must have previous experience in working in Adult Social Care and have a good understanding and be able to apply appropriate legislation. Knowledge is required of the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Human Rights Act, Mental Health Act, etc.

This team is responsible for Hospital Transfer and Discharge, including referrals as well as case holding both complex safeguarding cases. Successful candidates will be expected to work across two hospitals within The Authority and be responsible for carrying out Care Act assessments, Safeguarding work, multi-agency work, as well as carrying out a duty function within the team.

Working in accordance with social care legislation and local government requirements, informed by the values and principles of social care; you will be supporting in the delivery of person-centred, safe and effective social care services. Using your professional knowledge and experience you’ll make assessments and decisions about the most appropriate interventions. Applying your significant Social Work experience and excellent communication skills you’ll establish and maintain relationships with service users and other agencies to ensure services meet identified needs.

You’ll be committed to ensuring positive and sustainable results of your interventions. Using best practice, you’ll strive to provide the best outcomes for children. Most importantly however, you’ll have a passion for supporting children and their families to ensure that they thrive and flourish. Our priority is to protect the most vulnerable and to be as efficient as possible.

Perfect candidate will be:

• Qualified Social Worker registered with Social Work England (SW, CSS, DipSW or Social Work Degree)
• Creative, flexible and forward-thinking in approach.
• Experienced in working in a Social Services Directorate or other Statutory or Voluntary Agency.
• Constantly striving for continuous improvement to provide the best outcomes for individuals and their families.
• Able to use excellent mediation and negotiation skills on behalf of service users.
• Work with a range of client groups within an Agency.
• Highly skilled at building meaningful relationships with children and families to engage them in assessments and plans.
• Committed to providing our service users with a high-quality service.
• Experienced in working on a multi-disciplinary, interagency basis.
• Knowledge of legislation relating to general social work practice.
• 4 Years plus Qualified.

In this role you will:

• Use skills, knowledge, and experience to make full assessment of risks protection and social care needs.
• Manage an agreed case load.
• Use specialist communication skills to achieve optimum outcomes for service users.
• Devise individual care plans, taking account of diversity and promoting dignity and empowerment.
• Offer advice and support to unqualified staff and students to assist development.

This is an agency post and Pertemps can offer you:

• Dedicated consultant who has access to all roles across the UK and is available for you to speak to.
• Easy registration process, referral schemes and incentives.
• Ongoing compliance managed for you.
• Prompt and reliable payroll and lots more.

This role is ideally located for those travelling from Liverpool, Birkenhead, Widnes, Warrington, Wirral, Huyton, Wallasey, Sefton, Manchester, Ellesmere Port, Wigan, St Helens, Runcorn, Chester, Queensferry, Wrexham and Skelmersdale.

We recruit across all areas of Qualified Social Work. If you are a Social Worker and this is not the role for you, contact us about other roles including IRO (Independence Reviewing Officer), BIA (Best Interest Assessor), MASH, Children Looked After, Localities, Children in Need, Child Protection, Court, Children’s Social Work, Adult Social Work, hospital Transfer and Discharge Service Manager, Head of Service, Team Manager and Assistant Team Manager.