Senior Social Worker - Learning and Disability

Liquid Personnel is recruiting a Senior Social Worker for its client’s Learning Disability team in Richmond upon Thames.
Our client’s Adult Social Services team is seeking an experienced and qualified Senior Social Worker to provide leadership within the Learning Disability Adult Social Care Team. The team consists of Service Managers, Assistant Service Managers, Senior Social Workers, Social Workers, and Social Care Assessors who work collaboratively across the borough. Their focus is to deliver a holistic, personalised, and strength-based service to residents aged 18 and over.

What You Bring:

• A positive, ‘can‑do’ approach
• Confidence in fast‑paced or emergency situations
• Strong knowledge of legislation and safeguarding
• A commitment to delivering better outcomes and better value
• A passion for person‑centred, strengths‑based practice

Where You’ll Make a Difference:

We’re recruiting into:

• Learning Disabilities
• Locality Teams
• Safeguarding & Complex Care
• Hospital Discharge & Reablement
• Senior Social Worker pathways

Benefits:

• A supportive culture that values collaboration, curiosity, and creativity
• Strong supervision and excellent CPD
• Hybrid working and flexible arrangements
• Opportunities to move across teams or step into senior practice
• A service that truly puts residents first

Qualifications & Experience:

To be successful in this role you must have,

Candidates must have post qualification experience along with a good knowledge of relevant legislation and local authority responsibilities in the safeguarding of vulnerable adults. You must have good communication, decision-making and time management skills.

• 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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