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About the Role
This role is for a skilled practitioner with mental health experience looking to take on a senior role within a multidisciplinary setting. You will manage a complex caseload, provide professional leadership on Care Act and AMHP practice, support the Team Manager, supervise Social Work staff, and contribute to the development of mental health services. The role combines frontline Social Work with leadership, mentoring, safeguarding, and service development responsibilities within a supportive Health and Social Care environment.
Responsibilities
- Hold a complex caseload and provide assessment, intervention, and support to adults with mental health needs and their carers.
- Deliver Care Act assessments, support planning, reviews, Personal Budgets, and Direct Payments.
- Provide specialist advice and guidance on Care Act duties and Adult Social Care practice.
- Undertake safeguarding responsibilities, including Enquiry Officer and Safeguarding Adult Manager roles.
- Carry out Mental Health Act duties as an Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP).
- Provide professional supervision, mentoring, and support to Social Workers and less experienced team members.
- Support Practice Education for Social Work students and AMHP trainees.
- Chair and participate in planning meetings, safeguarding meetings, reviews, and case conferences.
- Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary colleagues and partner agencies to deliver positive outcomes.
- Support the Team Manager in ensuring Adult Social Care priorities are embedded within service delivery.
Requirements
- Must be eligible to work in the UK.
- Must hold a full UK driving licence.
Skills
- Mental health experience
- Care Act practice
- AMHP practice
- Safeguarding
- Leadership
- Mentoring
Location
- Bromley (South East London)
Work Type
- Full-time
- Permanent
Experience Level
- Post-qualified Social Work experience
- Senior role
Education Level
- MA, BA, BSc, Diploma in Social Work, CQSW, CSS, or an equivalent recognised Social Work qualification.
- Registered with Social Work England.
Benefits
- Free DBS and compliance service
- Twice weekly payroll and ‘Faster Pay’ service
- Access to exclusive roles
- Free access to Liquid’s exclusive social work training and CPD portal
- 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
About the Company
- Liquid Personnel is an equal opportunities employer.
- Liquid Personnel Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
Equal Opportunity
- Liquid Personnel is an equal opportunities employer.
- 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.