Adult Social Worker (Safeguarding Team)

Job Introduction

Our Story

Halton is a vibrant local authority with a rich history and heritage, featuring three iconic bridges that connect communities across the River Mersey. Located in Cheshire, Halton boasts excellent transport links between Liverpool and Manchester, as well as close proximity to both Liverpool John Lennon and Manchester Airports.

Our progressive community strategy aims to bring about meaningful, long-term improvements that enhance lives. It's an exciting time to join us as we develop new policies and transform the way people access services.

We are immensely proud that when asked what's great about working for Halton, the most popular response from our workforce has been 'our colleagues'.

Our Team

The adult safeguarding team is a small friendly team made up of social workers, safeguarding support officer and admin staff. The main duty of the team is to take receipt of the safeguarding referrals submitted to the local authority, assessing risk, implementing interim safeguarding measures before making a decision around next steps. In addition to this, social workers within the team hold a small case of complex s42 enquiries. We work closely with partner agencies and safeguarding leads. We represent adult social care and several case conferences such as MARAC and MAPPA.

Hours

37 per week based at Runcorn Town Hall, WA7 5TD

Your Contributions

• To hold a degree in Social Work or equivalent and be registered with Social Work England
• To take receipt of safeguarding concerns, assess the risk, agree interim measures and agree next steps in relation to adult safeguarding enquiries
• A good knowledge and understanding of relevant legislation
• Liaise and negotiate with other professionals, statutory and voluntary agencies to gather information relevant to assessing risk and planning for next steps
• Maintain and update appropriate records of work undertaken and carry out required administrative procedures within the designated timescales.

Our Offer

Aside from working with a great team, our employees have access to a fantastic range of benefits, including:

• A generous annual holiday allowance starting at 34 days per year (including bank holidays), increasing with long service with the option to purchase an additional four-days of unpaid leave for our Annual Christmas Closedown
• Membership of our defined benefit, salary-linked Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) with generous employer contributions
• 3 x Salary Life Cover via Local Government Pension Scheme
• Investment in your personal development
• Free Car Parking at HBC sites
• Flexible working arrangements
• Extensive employee benefits platform including discounted shopping, car leasing, gym memberships, wellbeing hub and Employee Assistance Programme.
• Essential Monthly Car User Allowance

Interview date to be confirmed.

At Halton Borough Council we want to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce and a vital part of this is to encourage diversity in all respects. We are committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and tailored to best suit the needs and strength of the individual. This includes making adjustments for people with a disability, neurodiversity or with long-term health conditions. If you require accommodations, please reach out during the recruitment process so that we can make this the best possible experience for you -

Please refer to the attached Job Profile for further information about the role and our values.

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