About the role
Liquid Personnel is recruiting a Children’s Social Worker to join its client’s Child Protection team, based in Northamptonshire.
The role involves managing a caseload of children and families, undertaking statutory assessments and child protection enquiries, assessing risk, and developing effective safeguarding plans.
The successful candidate will work closely with children, parents, carers and partner agencies to safeguard children, ensure their voices are heard and achieve positive outcomes.
What will your responsibilities be?
- Manage a caseload of complex child protection cases.
- Undertake statutory assessments, safeguarding enquiries and statutory visits.
- Identify and assess risks to children and implement appropriate interventions.
- Contribute to child protection conferences, reviews and multi-agency meetings.
- Prepare high-quality reports and maintain accurate case records.
- Work collaboratively with families, schools, health professionals, police and other agencies.
- Ensure children’s wishes and feelings are central to decision-making.
- Manage cases effectively and meet statutory timescales.
- Promote child-centred and strengths-based social work practice.
- Ensure children’s safety, welfare and best interests remain the priority.
Qualifications and 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
- Relevant experience in statutory children’s social care and child protection.
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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