About the role
Our client is seeking a skilled Social Worker to join its Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) in Cambridgeshire. Based at the Police Headquarters, you will work at the critical first point of contact for safeguarding referrals, ensuring that children and young people receive timely and appropriate interventions.
What will your responsibilities be?
- Referral Management: Act as the first point of contact for new safeguarding referrals, identifying risk and determining the appropriate level of response.
- Multi-Agency Collaboration: Work alongside colleagues from the Police, Health, and Education to share information and provide a coordinated response to safeguarding concerns.
- Risk Assessment: Conduct rapid, high-quality screenings and assessments to ensure children are protected from immediate harm.
- Decision Making: Apply thresholds accurately to decide whether a case requires statutory social work intervention, early help, or signposting to other services.
- Direct Communication: Liaise with families and professionals to gather essential information while maintaining strict confidentiality and data protection standards.
- Record Keeping: Ensure all information and decisions are recorded accurately within the council's management information systems.
Qualifications and Experience
To be successful in this role, you must have:
- Social Work England registration and a recognized social work qualification (CQSW, DipSW, or Degree).
- MASH or Duty Experience: Proven experience in a fast-paced "front door" or referral-based environment.
- High-Level Risk Analysis: Ability to make quick, evidence-based decisions in high-pressure situations.
- Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written skills for effective multi-agency information sharing.
- Compliance: A fully completed DfE sheet must be provided upon application.
Working Hours and Flexibility
- Hybrid Working: Support for a hybrid model with 2–3 days in the office and the remainder remote.
- Hours: 37 hours per week (Monday to Friday, 9:00 am to 5:30 pm).
- Duration: Initial contract until July 2026.
Our Commitment
- IR35 Status: This role is classified as Inside IR35.
- Safeguarding: Cambridgeshire County Council is dedicated to protecting and promoting the welfare of children and young people.
- Inclusion: We are an equal opportunities employer, valuing diversity in our workforce and our community.
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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