Senior Social Worker – Adult Safeguarding

Liquid Personnel is recruiting an Adult’s Social Worker to join its client’s Adult Safeguarding team, based in Wokingham. This is an exciting opportunity for a highly skilled safeguarding practitioner to play a key role in supporting and developing safeguarding practice across Adult Social Care, whilst ensuring the consistent achievement of positive outcomes for adults at risk.

The successful candidate will provide professional leadership, supervision, coaching, and safeguarding expertise across the service. You will manage complex safeguarding work, lead organisational abuse enquiries, contribute to quality assurance processes, and work collaboratively with partner agencies to strengthen safeguarding practice and promote preventative approaches across the wider system.

This role requires an experienced professional with strong safeguarding knowledge, excellent decision-making skills, and the ability to support and develop practitioners whilst contributing to service improvement and strategic safeguarding priorities.

What will your responsibilities be? 

• Contributing to the Adult Safeguarding Hub duty system, managing the intake of safeguarding concerns and ensuring appropriate safeguarding thresholds are applied.
• Undertaking Initial Safeguarding Enquiries and complex Section 42 Safeguarding Enquiries in accordance with the Care Act 2014.
• Acting as Safeguarding Adults Manager (SAM) and providing oversight, direction, and professional leadership for safeguarding enquiries.
• Chairing strategy meetings, safeguarding discussions, and other multi-agency meetings as required.
• Providing supervision, mentoring, coaching, and development support to Adult Safeguarding Hub practitioners and colleagues across Adult Social Care.
• Supporting the development of less experienced social workers and other practitioners to improve safeguarding knowledge, confidence, and professional practice.
• Leading organisational abuse enquiries involving providers, commissioned services, and complex safeguarding concerns.
• Representing Adult Social Care on multi-agency panels and forums, including MARAC, MAPPA, CHANEL, and other partnership arrangements where required.
• Delivering safeguarding workshops, training sessions, and professional development opportunities across the service.
• Contributing to quality assurance processes relating to safeguarding practice and safeguarding activity across Adult Services.
• Supporting safeguarding quality assurance activity in relation to care providers and commissioned services.
• Working directly with individuals who require alternative engagement approaches, supporting them to access appropriate services and safeguarding interventions.
• Contributing to preventative safeguarding initiatives aligned to local priorities and Safeguarding Adults Board objectives.
• Developing and maintaining effective relationships with statutory, voluntary, community, and health partners to improve safeguarding outcomes.
• Maintaining accurate, timely, and legally compliant records, reports, safeguarding documentation, and performance information. 

Qualifications and Experience: 

To be successful in this role you must have;  

• Professional Qualification: MA, BA, BSc in Social Work, Diploma in Social Work, CQSW, or equivalent recognised Social Work qualification.
• Registration: Must be registered with Social Work England.
• Experience: Significant post-qualified experience within Adult Social Care, with substantial safeguarding experience.
• Safeguarding Expertise: Extensive experience undertaking and overseeing Section 42 enquiries, complex safeguarding investigations, and organisational abuse enquiries.
• Legislation Knowledge: Strong understanding of the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Human Rights legislation, Adult Safeguarding procedures, and associated statutory guidance.
• Leadership Skills: Experience supervising, mentoring, coaching, and developing both qualified and unqualified staff.
• Quality Assurance Experience: Experience undertaking audits, safeguarding quality assurance reviews, and service improvement activity.
• Multi-Agency Working: Proven experience working effectively with police, health services, providers, advocacy organisations, and safeguarding partnerships.
• Training Experience: Ability to deliver safeguarding training, workshops, and professional development activities.
• Communication Skills: Excellent chairing, presentation, report-writing, analytical, negotiation, and decision-making skills.
• Professional Practice: Strong commitment to safeguarding, person-centred practice, continuous improvement, and professional development. 

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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