Senior Social Worker – Adult Safeguarding

Liquid Personnel is recruiting an Adult’s Social Worker to join its client’s Adult Safeguarding team, based in Wokingham. This is an exciting opportunity for a highly skilled safeguarding practitioner to play a key role in supporting and developing safeguarding practice across Adult Social Care, whilst ensuring the consistent achievement of positive outcomes for adults at risk.

The successful candidate will provide professional leadership, supervision, coaching, and safeguarding expertise across the service. You will manage complex safeguarding work, lead organisational abuse enquiries, contribute to quality assurance processes, and work collaboratively with partner agencies to strengthen safeguarding practice and promote preventative approaches across the wider system.

This role requires an experienced professional with strong safeguarding knowledge, excellent decision-making skills, and the ability to support and develop practitioners whilst contributing to service improvement and strategic safeguarding priorities.

• Contributing to the Adult Safeguarding Hub duty system, managing the intake of safeguarding concerns and ensuring appropriate safeguarding thresholds are applied.
• Undertaking Initial Safeguarding Enquiries and complex Section 42 Safeguarding Enquiries in accordance with the Care Act 2014.
• Acting as Safeguarding Adults Manager (SAM) and providing oversight, direction, and professional leadership for safeguarding enquiries.
• Chairing strategy meetings, safeguarding discussions, and other multi-agency meetings as required.
• Providing supervision, mentoring, coaching, and development support to Adult Safeguarding Hub practitioners and colleagues across Adult Social Care.
• Supporting the development of less experienced social workers and other practitioners to improve safeguarding knowledge, confidence, and professional practice.
• Leading organisational abuse enquiries involving providers, commissioned services, and complex safeguarding concerns.
• Representing Adult Social Care on multi-agency panels and forums, including MARAC, MAPPA, CHANEL, and other partnership arrangements where required.
• Delivering safeguarding workshops, training sessions, and professional development opportunities across the service.
• Contributing to quality assurance processes relating to safeguarding practice and safeguarding activity across Adult Services.
• Supporting safeguarding quality assurance activity in relation to care providers and commissioned services.
• Working directly with individuals who require alternative engagement approaches, supporting them to access appropriate services and safeguarding interventions.
• Contributing to preventative safeguarding initiatives aligned to local priorities and Safeguarding Adults Board objectives.
• Developing and maintaining effective relationships with statutory, voluntary, community, and health partners to improve safeguarding outcomes.
• Maintaining accurate, timely, and legally compliant records, reports, safeguarding documentation, and performance information.

To be successful in this role you must have;

• Professional
  
  Qualification:
  
  MA, BA, BSc in Social Work, Diploma in Social Work, CQSW, or equivalent recognised Social Work qualification.
• Registration:
  Must be registered with Social Work England.
• Experience:
  
  Significant post-qualified experience within Adult Social Care, with substantial safeguarding experience.
• Safeguarding Expertise:
  Extensive experience undertaking and overseeing Section 42 enquiries, complex safeguarding investigations, and organisational abuse enquiries.
• Legislation Knowledge:
  Strong understanding of the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Human Rights legislation, Adult Safeguarding procedures, and associated statutory guidance.
• Leadership
  
  Skills:
  
  Experience supervising, mentoring, coaching, and developing both qualified and unqualified staff.
• Quality Assurance
  
  Experience:
  
  Experience undertaking audits, safeguarding quality assurance reviews, and service improvement activity.
• Multi‑Agency Working:
  Proven experience working effectively with police, health services, providers, advocacy organisations, and…