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Social Worker - Adult Safeguarding Location: Sefton Rate: 35 per hour The Sefton Council is looking for a Social Worker to join their Adults Safeguarding team, offering a pay rate of 35 per hour.

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Senior Social Worker - Adult Safeguarding - Trafford

Liquid Personnel

Trafford, PA • Hybrid

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Posted 6 days ago

Job description

Job Title: Senior Social Worker - Adult Safeguarding - Trafford
Location: Trafford (Hybrid)
Pay Rate: 32 per hour

About the Role:

Join as a Senior Social Worker in Adult Safeguarding team and ensure high-quality care in Trafford. If you are passionate about this role, then apply now!

What will your responsibilities be?

In this role, you will provide senior-level support in adult safeguarding, reporting to the Safeguarding Practice Lead and promoting effective safeguarding practice across adult social care teams. You will attend Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA) meetings and manage Person in Position of Trust (PIPOT) referrals, ensuring coordinated and proportionate responses to complex safeguarding concerns. Additionally, you will offer safeguarding advice and guidance to frontline teams, assist Team Managers and Service Managers with safeguarding responsibilities, and support the development and embedding of safeguarding knowledge and good practice across the workforce through mentoring and training initiatives.

Benefits of the role:

  • Great rate of pay 32 per hour
  • Flexible and hybrid working to support work-life balance
  • Supportive team

Qualifications & Experience:

  • SWE registration  
  • Eligible to work in the UK  
  • Hold a full UK license  
  • Post-qualified experience  
  • Degree level or equivalent in Social Work 

Why Liquid Personnel?

  • New 'Faster Pay' service getting you paid more quickly
  • Twice weekly payroll
  • Free DBS and compliance service
  • 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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