Social Worker - Mental Health

Job Title: Social Worker - Mental Health
Section/Team: Mental Health Team
Pay Rate: £34.45 per hour
Location: Camden

Job Description:

Liquid Personnel is looking for an experienced Adult Social Worker for its client’s Mental Health team based in Camden. The role involves providing high-quality, person-centred social work to adults experiencing mental health challenges. You will work within statutory frameworks to assess needs, manage risk, and promote recovery and independence through collaborative, multi-disciplinary approaches.

What will your responsibilities be?

• Undertake Care Act 2014 assessments, Mental Capacity Assessments, and Best Interest decisions.
• Support individuals with severe and enduring mental health conditions, including those under the Care Programme Approach (CPA).
• Work in partnership with Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs), psychiatrists, GPs, and other professionals to deliver integrated care.
• Respond to safeguarding concerns and contribute to Section 42 enquiries where mental health is a factor.
• Develop and review care and support plans that promote recovery, autonomy, and social inclusion.
• Support hospital discharge planning and prevent unnecessary admissions through early intervention.
• Maintain accurate and timely case records using the council’s case management system (e.g., Liquid Logic, Mosaic).
• Advocate for service users, ensuring their rights are upheld and their voices heard.
• Participate in multi-agency meetings, tribunals, and Mental Health Act processes as appropriate.
• Promote a strengths-based, trauma-informed approach to practice.

Benefits:

• Make a Difference: Help change the lives of adults
• Great Team: Work with a supportive and collaborative crew.

Qualifications & Experience:

To be successful in this role you must have:

• Social Work England registration
• Eligible to work in the UK
• Hold a full UK driving licence
• Post-qualified experience
• Degree level or equivalent in Social Work

Why Liquid Personnel?

• Free DBS and compliance service
• Twice weekly payroll and ‘Faster Pay’ service, getting you paid more quickly
• 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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