Social Worker – Family Support Team

Our client is looking for a resilient and adaptable Social Worker to join the Family Support Team in Wrexham. This role involves managing a varied caseload of children subject to Care and Support Plans (CASP), Child Protection (CP), Public Law Outline (PLO), and Looked After Children (LAC) until their initial review.

What will your responsibilities be?

• Caseload Management: Manage children subject to CASP, CP, and PLO. For Looked After Children, you will maintain the case until the initial review is held, at which point the child transfers to the Court Team.
• Duty System: Participate in the team duty rota, responding immediately and effectively to emerging safeguarding matters and crisis situations.
• Assessment & Planning: Undertake evidence-based assessments and create crisis response plans that are proportionate, managing potential risks while prioritizing the child's best interests.
• Risk Management: Identify and assess risks to children, developing support plans that minimize harm while working under management supervision or independently based on experience.
• Relational Practice: Adapt social work techniques to meet the unique needs of individuals, families, and carers, working in partnership to promote positive outcomes.
• Collaboration: Work closely with a network of professionals, ensuring clear recording of all involved parties and maintaining accurate, reviewed, and modified care plans.
• Professional Development: Consolidate skills through mentoring and guidance from experienced practitioners, taking on increasing levels of complexity and responsibility.

Qualifications and Experience

To be successful in this role, you must have:

• Social Work England or Social Care Wales registration and a recognized Social Work qualification.
• Frontline Experience: Proven experience in managing Child Protection and Looked After Children cases within a statutory setting.
• Crisis Intervention: Ability to think clearly and act decisively in high-pressure duty situations.
• Recording Proficiency: Ability to navigate and utilize children's recording systems to identify key professional networks and case history.
• Communication: Strong skills in providing professional support, advice, and decision-making for families in need of support.

Working Hours and Flexibility

• Work Pattern: Hybrid working model consisting of 3 days in the office and 2 days remote.
• Hours: 37 hours per week.
• Team Structure: You will be part of a supportive team environment, co-working on complex cases with experienced staff where necessary.

Our Commitment

• Safeguarding: Wrexham is dedicated to ensuring that practice and decisions safeguard the welfare of children at immediate risk of harm.
• Evidence-Based Practice: We ensure all individuals referred have a plan based on a robust assessment of need that is consistently reviewed.

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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