Senior Social Worker - Mental Health

Liquid Personnel

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Knowsley Until 8/22/2026 First posted April 21, 2026 Last posted April 21, 2026
Job description

Liquid Personnel is recruiting Senior Social Worker for its client's Mental Health team at Knowsley.

What will your responsibilities be?

  • Lead complex assessments and care planning for adults with severe and enduring mental health needs, ensuring interventions are person‑centred and recovery‑focused.
  • Provide professional supervision and guidance to social workers and support staff, promoting best practice in safeguarding, risk management, and compliance with the Mental Health Act and Care Act.
  • Work collaboratively across multi‑disciplinary teams, engaging with clients, families, and partner agencies to coordinate effective support, manage duty systems, and contribute to service development.

Benefits:

  • Hybrid Work
  • Initial 3-month contract with potential to extend
  • Rare opportunity into a supportive and friendly team

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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About this role

Summary

Lead assessments, provide supervision, collaborate across teams for mental health support.

Job title

Senior Social Worker - Mental Health

Experience level

post-qualified

Industry

healthcare

Location requirements

Knowsley, hybrid work allowed

Salary

Not specified

Management role

Yes

Skills & keywords

Required skills

social work england registrationUK work eligibilityfull UK driving licencedegree in social work

Preferred skills

teamworkcare planning

Specializations

mental healthassessmentcare planningsupervision
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Knowsley, UK

Hybrid City