Adult Social Worker – Safeguarding

Liquid Personnel is recruiting an Adult’s Social Worker to join its client’s Safeguarding team, based in Somerset. 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