Experienced Social Worker - Adult Review Team

About the Role:

This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to meaningful change and ensure adults at risk receive the support, protection and dignity they deserve.

As an Experienced Social Worker, you will play a vital role in delivering high-quality safeguarding interventions that promote independence, wellbeing and safety.

Your role will include managing complex caseloads, completing risk assessments, leading and coordinating safeguarding enquiries under the Care Act 2014 and triaging new concerns as part of the duty rota. You will manage a diverse and complex caseload with autonomy and professional judgement, undertaking strength-based assessments as per the Care Act 2014, and develop outcome focused support plans.

You will complete Mental Capacity Assessments when required and make safeguarding personal conversations that shape risk planning and outcomes, working collaboratively with health partners, police, care providers, and voluntary organisations. You will apply legislation, policy and best practice to protect adults from harm or abuse and provide professional advice and guidance to colleagues and partner agencies.

About the Candidate:

A qualified Experienced Social Worker (Social Work England registered) with strong experience in adult safeguarding or similar statutory adult services.

You will have excellent analytical, communication and report writing skills and confidence in managing risk and making evidence-based decisions.

You must have the ability to work flexibly, proactively, and as part of a supportive team.

Working at Wirral

Our values are more than just pieces of paper on our walls! We’ve all played a role in developing these, so they reflect the immense pride we have in what we do, what matters to us, what inspires us and inform how we think, approach things and behave.

We believe in ensuring staff are well looked after, staff wellbeing is a priority for us. We’re serious about recognising and rewarding people for the great things they do. You’ll benefit from our track record of developing, growing and investing in our people.

We have a range of staff benefits including staff discounts, enrolment into the local government pension scheme (an excellent defined benefit scheme), immediate life cover and ill-health protection. We have a strong flexible working approach, hybrid working, family-friendly employment initiatives and an annual leave package starting with 28 days leave plus public holidays.

We have an inclusive, engaged culture, everyone has a voice, everyone is valued for their contribution and understands the role they play in delivering our strategic priorities.

Each voice is heard, each contribution valued. We embrace diversity in our workforce and recognise it is critical to our success. We support an inclusive culture that champions differences and nurtures a sense of belonging. We encourage people from diverse backgrounds, who share our values and our commitment to inclusion to apply for roles with us.

We want you to be your best at work, we create the conditions to help you thrive and we mirror this in our recruitment process. If you’d like us to do anything differently during the recruitment process to make it barrier‑free and as accessible as possible please contact recruitment@wirral.gov.uk

Please note that in accordance with the Council’s policy, employees who are in a formal redeployment situation will be considered in the first instance for all vacancies.

It is Council policy not to re‑appoint any employee who has left under the terms of the Council's Early Voluntary Retirement (EVR) scheme or who have left with a voluntary severance (VS) package, unless in exceptional circumstances.

We do not accept applications or CV’s from recruitment agencies, unless otherwise stated. Therefore, any candidates submitted via a recruitment agency will not be considered for this role.

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