About the role
Liquid Personnel is recruiting Social Worker for its client's Duty and Assessment Team at Northamptonshire.
This is an excellent opportunity for a motivated Children's Social Worker with a strong background in safeguarding, Child and Family Assessments and Section 47 enquiries.
You will play a key role in safeguarding vulnerable children, assessing family circumstances, managing risk and ensuring children and families receive the right support and intervention at the right time.
The role offers a flexible hybrid working arrangement, combining home working, office-based duties and community visits.
What will your responsibilities be?
- Undertake comprehensive Child and Family Assessments in accordance with legislation, statutory guidance and local procedures.
- Conduct Section 47 enquiries and investigations where safeguarding concerns arise.
- Identify, assess and manage risks and protective factors within families.
- Develop, implement and review Child in Need, Child Protection and Safety Plans.
- Ensure children's wishes, feelings, voices and lived experiences are central to all assessments and decision-making.
- Maintain accurate, timely and analytical case records.
- Prepare high-quality assessments, reports, care plans and chronologies.
- Complete statutory visits, contacts and recordings within required timescales.
- Manage a varied and complex caseload, prioritising work according to risk and need.
- Work collaboratively with children, families and multi-agency professionals.
- Participate in supervision, team meetings, audits and quality assurance activities.
- Promote equality, diversity and inclusion throughout all aspects of practice.
Benefits
- Competitive Payrate
- Hybrid working available
- Supportive team
Qualifications & Experience
To be successful in this role you must have,
- Social Work England registration
- Eligible to work in the UK
- Full UK driving licence
- Post-qualified experience
- Degree in Social Work or equivalent qualification
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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