About the role
Liquid Personnel is currently recruiting for a Social Worker to join a Safeguarding Team based in Kingston/Richmond.
What’s in it for you as a Social Worker?
- £3,000 welcome payment
- Generous annual leave entitlements
- Free or reduced parking rates
- Cycle to work scheme
- Annual season ticket loan
- Childcare vouchers, and discounts on a range of local shops, restaurants, gyms and leisure centres and much more.
- Excellent learning and development opportunities and schemes of support
- A competitive and desirable retention package (to include a generous local government pension scheme)
- A clear progression path when key qualification milestones are reached
- Tools and models to support, including Signs of Safety
- Reflective supervision from an experienced management team
- Regular whole service away days
Your main responsibilities as a Social Worker
- Supporting children and young people who are subject to Child Protection plans and Child in Need plans
- Understanding when to transfer cases from the Safeguarding team to the Permanence team
- Building strong and respectful working relationships with families, their support network and our partner agencies
- Regular assessment writing, threshold application, home visits, direct work, care planning, chairing meetings and case recording in line with our policies and procedures
- Ensuring that children and young people are actively involved in our work and their voice is captured in our case recording
- Actively taking part in reflective supervision and group supervision
What we are looking for in a Social Worker
- Social Work England registration
- Eligible to work in the UK
- Hold a full UK license
- Post-qualified experience
- Degree level or equivalent in Social Work
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