About the role
Our client is seeking highly experienced Social Workers to join its Family Safeguarding Service in Swindon. The service operates a “Pod” model, with five Social Workers and one Manager per pod, designed to enhance management oversight, peer support, and high‑quality practice.
What will your responsibilities be?
- Comprehensive Assessment: Undertake timely parenting and holistic assessments to inform the development of outcome-focused care plans.
- Court Work: Manage both private and public law court proceedings, including the initiation and completion of cases within strict court timescales.
- Permanency Planning: Achieve permanency for children, including drafting and executing plans for adoption where necessary.
- Risk Analysis: Identify and respond to complex risks, providing clear, analytical evidence of interventions within children’s records.
- Pod Collaboration: Work closely within a small team unit (Pod) to ensure consistent oversight and shared learning.
Qualifications and Experience
To be successful in this role, you must have:
- Social Work England registration and a recognized Social Work qualification.
- Experience Requirement: Minimum of 3 years Post-Qualified Experience (PQE) in a permanent statutory setting.
- Court Expertise: Proven track record of managing care proceedings and achieving permanency.
- Analytical Skills: Advanced ability to analyze risk and intervention impact.
- Driving: Must be a car driver with access to a vehicle for business use.
Working Hours and Flexibility
- Office Presence: 3 days per week in the Swindon office is required.
- Schedule: Full-time hours. Please note that condensed working patterns cannot be accommodated for this role.
- Duration: Ongoing agency cover.
Financial Support for Commuters
- Travel/Accommodation Allowance: Candidates living 50+ miles from Swindon are entitled to claim a flat rate of £100 per week to assist with mileage or accommodation costs.
- Eligibility: This allowance is currently confirmed for all placements until 10 May 2026.
Our Commitment
- Supportive Structure: The Pod model ensures you are never working in isolation and have direct access to management oversight.
- Outcome Focused: We are dedicated to ensuring that every child in Swindon has a clear, safe, and permanent plan for their future.
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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