Adult Social Worker - Learning Disabilities - Blackpool

Job Title: Social Worker - Learning Disabilities
Location: Blackpool Council, Bickerstaffe Offices
Rate: £30.66 per hour
Hours: Mon to Thurs, 9am - 5pm & Fridays, 9am - 4.30pm.

Job Description:

An exciting opportunity has arisen to work within the Adult Social Care Learning Disability Team. The team works with adults and young living in Blackpool and provides direct support as well as commissioning specialist support from providers.

What will your responsibilities be?

In this role, you will be working and supporting adults and young people with learning disabilities, completing Care Act Assessments and Care Act reviews. The role will be line managed by the Learning Disability Team Manager. The team comprises Adult Social Care staff from Blackpool Council and NHS Health staff from Blackpool Teaching Hospitals. You will have excellent communication and organisational skills, competent knowledge of the implementation of the Care Act 2014, and experience of managing and leading on safeguarding, managing risk, and care management. We are looking for a social worker who has experience of working with adults who have a learning disability and their families, is passionate about learning disabilities, supporting service users, staff teams, and collaborating with colleagues and partners.

Benefits:

• Hybrid work
• Supervision and Training available
• Free on-site parking

Qualifications and Experiences:

To be successful, you will need to be an effective team player, excellent communicator, and willing to use your energy, enthusiasm, and experience to make valuable contributions to the team and people we support. To be eligible for this role, you must have Social Work England registration and be eligible to work in the UK. You should hold a full UK driving license and have post-qualified experience. Additionally, you must possess a degree level or equivalent qualification in Social Work.

How to apply?

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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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