Social Worker - Safeguarding Team - S42 Triage

Liquid Personnel is recruiting Adult Social Worker for its client's Safeguarding Team (S42 Triage) in Somerset.

Our client, based in Somerset, is seeking an experienced Adult Social Worker to join their Safeguarding Team, with a focus on Section 42 (S42) triage and enquiries.
This role sits at the front end of safeguarding, where you will be responsible for screening, triaging, and progressing safeguarding concerns in line with statutory duties. You will work with a range of vulnerable adults, ensuring timely, proportionate, and defensible decision-making to protect individuals at risk of abuse or neglect.

What will your responsibilities be?

• Triaging incoming safeguarding concerns and determining whether they meet the threshold for a Section 42 enquiry under the Care Act 2014
• Undertaking and co-ordinating Section 42 safeguarding enquiries, ensuring they are completed in a timely and proportionate manner
• Gathering, analysing and evaluating information to inform risk assessments and decision-making
• Working closely with partner agencies (e.g. police, health services, providers and the CQC) to ensure effective multi-agency safeguarding responses
• Making defensible decisions regarding risk, capacity and safeguarding outcomes, ensuring the adult’s voice remains central to all intervention
• Completing Mental Capacity Assessments where appropriate and contributing to Best Interests decision-making processes
• Identifying immediate risks and taking appropriate action to safeguard adults at risk of abuse or neglect
• Ensuring safeguarding plans are person-centred, outcome-focused and proportionate to risk
• Maintaining accurate, timely and high-quality case records, reports and decision logs, in line with organisational and legal requirements
• Contributing to strategy discussions, safeguarding meetings and case conferences
• Applying professional curiosity to ensure all risks are appropriately explored and managed
• Working within a fast-paced duty/triage environment, managing competing priorities effectively

Qualifications & Experience:

To be successful in this role you must have,

Professional Qualification:

• MA, BA, BSc in Social Work, Diploma in Social Work or CQSW

Registration:

• Must be registered with Social Work England

Experience:

• Minimum 2 years’ post-qualified experience, including completion of ASYE
• Strong experience within Adult Safeguarding, including conducting or co-ordinating Section 42 enquiries
• Experience working in a triage or front-door safeguarding service is highly desirable
• Experience managing risk and complex safeguarding cases
• Experience of multi-agency working in safeguarding contexts

Legislation Knowledge:

• Strong working knowledge of:
  • Care Act 2014 (particularly safeguarding duties under Section 42)
  • Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA)
  • Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA)
  • Safeguarding Adults procedures and frameworks

Skills

• Strong analytical, assessment and decision-making skills, particularly within safeguarding
• Ability to identify and manage risk effectively in high-pressure situations
• Confidence in making defensible safeguarding decisions
• Excellent communication and partnership-working skills
• Ability to work autonomously within a fast-paced triage environment
• High standard of written recording and report writing
• Demonstrates professional curiosity, resilience and sound judgement

Other Requirements

• Full UK driving licence and access to a car is desirable

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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