Social Care
Social care professions we recruit.
Actionus recruits qualified social workers, support workers, residential and supported living staff, registered managers and safeguarding specialists. Choose a profession to jump straight to matching live roles, or filter by the local authority area you want to work in.
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Latest social care vacancies.
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Head of Therapeutic Services
This Head of Therapeutic Services role in South West England offers a permanent 30 hour per week contract with hybrid working options. You will provide strategic leadership for an established charity delivering specialist support to children and families affected by trauma. The position involves overseeing service quality, safeguarding and multidisciplinary team management to drive organisational growth.
Bristol£50,000 to £65,000 per annumPermanentVIEW ROLE → - Social CareRegistered Care Management
Registered Nursing Manager
We are seeking a Registered Manager for a temporary position based at a large bedded nursing home in the West Midlands. This role offers an immediate start providing essential leadership cover until mid to late November 2026. This is a vital opportunity to lead a dedicated team in a well-established clinical environment.
Birmingham£30 to £40 per hourTemporaryVIEW ROLE → - Social Care
Occupational Therapist
Occupational Therapist required for a locum position within a dedicated adult social care department. This role involves delivering essential clinical interventions through a mix of site visits and remote administrative work. You will join a professional team focused on enhancing client independence through thorough assessments and equipment prescription.
Falkirk£25 to £45 per hourLocumVIEW ROLE → - Social Care
Occupational Therapist
Occupational Therapist required for a locum position focused on enhancing independence for adult service users within a community setting. This rewarding role involves conducting detailed functional evaluations and coordinating complex equipment installations to improve daily living standards. You will act as a vital link between statutory services and local residents, ensuring high-quality outcomes through expert clinical advice.
Greater Manchester£30 - £35 per hourLocumVIEW ROLE →
Professions
Social Care roles we recruit.
Social care hiring follows statutory caseload pressure, Ofsted and CQC inspection cycles and the constant challenge of covering vacant posts in children's services, adult safeguarding and hospital discharge teams. Local authorities frequently use interim cover while permanent recruitment runs in parallel.
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4 liveAdult Social Care jobs
Adult social care covers residential and nursing homes, supported living, domiciliary services and reablement teams, where consistent staffing directly affects CQC and Care Inspectorate outcomes. Actionus places carers, senior carers and care coordinators into locum, temporary and permanent roles with DBS, right-to-work and training evidence checked before the first shift.
- Elderly care
- Dementia care
- Learning disabilities
- Complex care
Social Care
Children's Social Care jobs
Children's services teams carry statutory caseloads across safeguarding, looked-after children, fostering and leaving care, and rely on experienced interim staff to hold cases safely. Actionus supplies residential childcare workers, family support workers and qualified practitioners for locum, contract and permanent roles across local authorities and independent providers.
- Safeguarding
- Looked-after children
- Fostering
- Leaving care
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1 liveRegistered Care Management jobs
Registered managers, deputy managers and service managers carry regulatory accountability for the services they run, and vacancies are often filled on an interim basis during inspection, turnaround or growth. Actionus places experienced managers into interim, fixed-term and permanent roles across adult and children's provision.
- CQC compliance
- Turnaround and improvement
- New service registration
- Quality assurance
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Safeguarding jobs
Safeguarding leads, reviewing officers and quality assurance practitioners sit across health, social care and education, and demand rises whenever caseloads or inspection pressure increase. Actionus supplies experienced safeguarding professionals for interim, contract and permanent roles.
- Adult safeguarding
- Child protection
- Independent reviewing
- Quality assurance
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Social Work jobs
Local authorities continue to run high vacancy rates in children's services, adult safeguarding, mental health and hospital discharge teams. Actionus places Social Work England registered social workers into locum, fixed-term and permanent roles across councils and health partners.
- Children and families
- Safeguarding
- Adults
- Mental health / AMHP
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Support Work jobs
Support workers underpin supported living, mental health recovery, learning disability and homelessness services, often on rotas that need short-notice cover. Actionus books support workers and senior support workers onto locum, temporary and permanent contracts with weekly online timesheets and weekly pay.
- Mental health
- Learning disabilities
- Autism
- Challenging behaviour
Working with Actionus
What you get as a candidate.
Weekly pay against approved timesheets
Submit your hours in the online timesheet portal. Your manager approves by email link, so there is an auditable record of every hour.
Compliance completed before the first shift
Registration, DBS or PVG, right to work, references and occupational health are evidenced before you are put forward.
One consultant throughout
The person who briefs you on the role stays with you through booking, extension and rebooking.
Referral scheme
Refer someone you have worked with and we will keep you updated on their placement.
How it works
- Step 1
Register
Send your CV or register online. A consultant calls you back to confirm what you want and where you can travel.
- Step 2
Get compliant
We complete registration checks, DBS or PVG, right to work, references, occupational health and training evidence before you are put forward.
- Step 3
Start work
You are booked, briefed and working. Hours go into the online timesheet portal and your manager approves them by email link.
Contract types
How social care roles are engaged.
- Temporary
- Weekly rolling cover for care and support teams, timesheeted and paid weekly.
- Interim and locum
- Qualified social work and management cover during vacancy, backlog or restructure.
- Fixed term contract
- Project, transformation and inspection response assignments with a defined end date.
- Permanent
- Substantive posts across local authorities, charities and independent providers.
Locations we serve
- —London and the South East
- —South West England
- —Midlands: Birmingham, Nottingham, Leicester
- —North West: Manchester, Liverpool, Preston
- —Yorkshire and the North East
- —Scotland: Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen
- —Wales: Cardiff, Swansea, Wrexham
- —Northern Ireland: Belfast, Derry
- —Ireland: Dublin, Cork, Galway
Compliance you will need
- —Social Work England, SSSC, Social Care Wales or NISCC registration for qualified social work roles
- —Enhanced DBS or PVG covering the adult and/or children's workforce
- —Right to work, ID and a fully referenced employment history
- —Care Certificate progress or completion for support roles
- —Safeguarding, moving and handling and medication training evidence
Questions
Social Care jobs, answered.
- Do support worker roles require a qualification?
- Not always. Many support and residential roles are open to candidates with relevant experience, with the Care Certificate completed on or shortly after starting. Qualified social work roles require current regulator registration.
- Which DBS level do social care roles need?
- An enhanced DBS with the relevant barred list check for adults, children, or both depending on the service. A PVG scheme record is used in Scotland and an AccessNI check in Northern Ireland.
- Can temporary social care work become permanent?
- Yes. Many interim and temporary assignments convert to substantive posts, and we agree the terms for that with the employer before the assignment starts.