Social Worker - Children in Care Team

Liquid Personnel is recruiting Social Worker for its client's Children in Care Team at Romford.

We are seeking an experienced Social Worker to join a busy Children in Care Team.

You will support children and young people in care, ensuring their safety, wellbeing and long-term stability through effective care planning, direct work and permanency planning.

What will your responsibilities be?

• Manage a caseload of up to 17 children, including care proceedings.
• Undertake direct work with children in care.
• Complete life story work and care planning.
• Support permanency planning and placement stability.
• Complete parenting and Together and Apart assessments.
• Undertake court work and prepare relevant reports.
• Work collaboratively with families and multi-agency professionals.

Benefits:

• Competitive rate of £37.52 per hour.
• 36-hour working week.
• Hybrid working – 3 days in the office.
• Laptop and phone provided.

Qualifications & Experience:

To be successful in this role you must have,

• Recognised Social Work qualification and current Social Work England registration.
• Experience undertaking court work and knowledge of relevant legislation.
• Experience working with children in care.
• Knowledge of direct work, life story work and permanency planning.
• Experience completing parenting and Together and Apart assessments.
• Strong assessment, communication and report-writing skills.

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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