Social Worker - Learning Disabilities

Liquid Personnel is recruiting an Adult’s

Social Worker to join its client’s Learning Disabilities team, based in Leeds.

What will your responsibilities be?

• Undertake a wide range of complex assessments including Community Care and Best Interest Assessments and construct innovative and cost-effective solutions
• Carry out Safeguarding investigations within multi-agency procedures
• Carry out risk assessments and identify needs and options
• Using a person-centred approach, develop and maintain effective relationships with service users, their families and carers enabling them to make informed choices
• Promote independence and early intervention, helping resolve conflict where needed
• Contribute to the enhanced screening of new referrals and existing service users
• Work in courts with appropriate support to obtain and implement court orders
• Contribute to the development of practice and services
• Carry out specific pieces of work on cases that are allocated to other teams
• Undertake the Practice Educator Level 2 role
• Participate in the Approved Mental Health Practitioner (AMHP) rota where qualified