Experienced Social Worker

Liquid Personnel is seeking an Experienced Social Worker (3+ years PQE) to join its client's Emergency Duty Team (EDT) in Nottingham. This is a generic, frontline out-of-hours service providing a statutory response to emergency safeguarding concerns for both children and adults that cannot wait until daytime services resume.

What will your responsibilities be?

Emergency Response: Provide a statutory response to safeguarding worries for children and vulnerable adults during out-of-hours periods (evenings, weekends, and Bank Holidays).

Generic Assessments: Undertake assessments under both Child and Adult Safeguarding procedures, managing high-risk situations independently.

Referral Management: Receive, prioritize, and record referrals from the public, family members, and partner agencies on the Liquid Logic database.

Crisis Intervention: Take immediate action to safeguard welfare, including the accommodation of vulnerable children and responding to emergency planning/Business Continuity Plan (BCP) links.

Specialist Duties: Respond to Mental Health Act (MHA) assessment requests, Child Death processes, and Significant Incident Briefings (SIB).

Advice & Signposting: Provide expert telephone support, advice, and guidance to citizens and partners, signposting to relevant services where the emergency threshold is not met.