Job Title: Senior Social Worker - Early Help and Prevention Team
Location: Medway
Pay Rate: £40 per hour
Liquid Personnel is recruiting an Adult Social Worker to join its client’s Early Help and Prevention Team, based in Medway.
The role involves leading and contributing to the delivery of a highly effective Adult Social Care service within the Early Help and Prevention Locality Team. It focuses on empowering residents to maintain independence through early intervention, holistic assessments, and strength-based approaches.
What will your responsibilities be?
- Provide professional supervision and oversight to a small team of social care staff.
- Support improvement activities through training, coaching, mentoring, and peer workshops.
- Maintain a complex caseload, managing high-risk situations and safeguarding adults.
- Deliver person-centred, strength-based assessments and interventions.
- Lead on quality assurance and audit activities, analysing data from complaints, safeguarding reviews, and audits to drive service improvements.
- Develop practice guidance, training materials, and best practice toolkits aligned with local and national policy.
- Represent the local authority in panels, meetings, and multi-agency forums.
- Collaborate with internal teams and external partners to achieve person-centred outcomes.
- Ensure adherence to legislative frameworks including The Care Act, Mental Capacity Act, and Mental Health Act.
Why join us?
- Make a Difference: Help change the lives of adults
- Great Team: Work with a supportive and collaborative crew.
Qualifications and Experience:
To be successful in this role you must have.
- Social Work England registration
- Eligible to work in the UK
- Hold a full UK driving licence
- Post-qualified experience
- Degree level or equivalent in Social Work
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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