Advanced Practitioner – Intermediate Care

Liquid Personnel is recruiting an experienced Advanced Practitioner to join its client’s Intermediate Care service based in Somerset. This is a full‑time agency role supporting complex casework, hospital discharge pathways, and admission avoidance within a multi‑disciplinary environment.

What will your responsibilities be?

• Lead on complex assessments, including Care Act assessments, discharge planning and risk assessments
• Support timely hospital discharges and admission avoidance through effective intervention planning
• Manage a complex caseload, providing expert guidance on high-risk and high-need cases
• Develop and review person-centred care and support plans that promote independence and reablement
• Undertake safeguarding enquiries and ensure risk is managed appropriately
• Apply the Mental Capacity Act, including Best Interests decision-making
• Provide professional support, mentoring and guidance to less experienced staff
• Work closely with acute hospitals, community health teams and wider multi-agency partners
• Prepare clear, high-quality reports and maintain accurate case records
• Support service development and contribute to best practice within the team

Qualifications & Experience:

To be successful in this role you must have:

• Social Work England registration
• Eligible to work in the UK
• Degree level or equivalent in Social Work
• Significant post‑qualified experience within Adult Social Care
• Experience within Intermediate Care, hospital discharge, or community settings
• Experience managing complex caseloads and high-risk cases
• Experience working within multi-disciplinary and multi-agency environments
• Experience providing supervision, mentoring, or practice leadership
• Strong knowledge of the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005, and Human Rights Act
• Excellent assessment, analytical, communication, and report-writing skills
• Ability to manage competing priorities and complex workloads
• Competent IT skills for case management systems
• Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle (essential)

Why Liquid Personnel?

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

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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