Adults Social Worker - Safeguarding Team in Portsmouth, Hampshire

Job Title: Adults Social Worker – Safeguarding Team
Specialism: Social Worker – Adults
Location: Portsmouth, UK
Salary: £36.00 per hour

Adults Social Worker within the Safeguarding Team in Portsmouth, earning £36.00 per hour. This exciting ongoing locum opportunity offers both part-time and full-time flexibility, providing the chance to play a vital role in protecting and supporting adults at risk of abuse, neglect, exploitation, or harm. Working within Portsmouth City Council's Adult Safeguarding Team, you will deliver high-quality statutory social work services while promoting independence, choice, wellbeing, and positive outcomes for vulnerable adults.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a forward-thinking and supportive safeguarding service while enjoying the flexibility, variety, and professional rewards that locum work offers.

Perks and benefits:

• Part Time / Full Time: Choose a working pattern that fits your lifestyle while continuing to make a meaningful difference in the lives of adults within the local community.

• Hourly Pay: Earn a competitive rate of £36.00 per hour, providing financial flexibility and rewarding your professional expertise.

• Diverse Work Environment: Collaborate with a wide range of professionals and partner agencies, broadening your experience and safeguarding knowledge.

• Continued Professional Development: Access training, learning opportunities, and professional support to enhance your practice and career progression.

• Work-Life Balance: Benefit from flexible working arrangements that support your wellbeing and personal commitments.

• Meaningful Impact: Play a crucial role in protecting vulnerable adults and supporting them to achieve their desired outcomes.

• Varied Caseload: Manage a range of safeguarding concerns, ensuring every day offers new challenges and opportunities for professional growth.

What you will do:

• Undertake statutory safeguarding enquiries in accordance with the Care Act 2014, responding to concerns of abuse, neglect, exploitation, and harm.

• Conduct comprehensive safeguarding assessments to identify risks and determine appropriate interventions that protect adults while promoting independence and choice.

• Apply Making Safeguarding Personal principles, ensuring individuals remain at the centre of safeguarding decision-making and planning.

• Develop, implement, and review safeguarding plans that reflect individuals' desired outcomes and minimise identified risks.

• Complete Care Act assessments to identify strengths, needs, risks, and eligibility for support.

• Develop strengths-based care and support plans in collaboration with service users, carers, families, and partner agencies.

• Undertake risk assessments and implement proportionate interventions that support positive outcomes and wellbeing.

• Work collaboratively with health services, housing providers, care agencies, police, advocacy services, and other partner organisations.

• Promote equality, diversity, inclusion, and person-centred approaches throughout all aspects of practice.

• Apply the principles of the Mental Capacity Act 2005, undertaking Mental Capacity Assessments and contributing to Best Interests decision-making where appropriate.

• Maintain accurate, timely, and legally compliant case records, reports, and documentation.

• Contribute to safeguarding meetings, professional forums, and multi-agency discussions to support effective coordinated interventions.

Why Portsmouth

Portsmouth offers an exceptional coastal lifestyle combined with vibrant city living. Known for its rich maritime heritage, historic dockyard, stunning waterfront, and thriving cultural scene, Portsmouth provides an excellent quality of life. With beautiful seaside attractions, excellent transport links, shopping, restaurants, and a strong sense of community, it is a fantastic place to live and work while developing your social work career.

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