Liquid Personnel is currently recruiting for an experienced Senior Social worker for a role within a Children in Care for the under 14s & Over 14s Teams.

Our client has vacancies for Social Workers to join our Children in Care Teams within the newly realigned Operations Service.  Based in a locality model with a focus on good quality assessments and dynamic planning which deliver timely evidence-based interventions and the progress of pre-proceedings/care proceedings through to permanency planning, this service will strengthen partnership working with families in local communities.

Benefits as a Senior Social Worker:

• Great transport links
• Friendly and supportive team
• Manageable caseloads
• High-quality professional supervision
• A bespoke induction package
• Agile working including working from home opportunities and flexi time arrangements
• A permanent senior management team
• A service-wide mandatory Restorative Practice training programme with ongoing implementation of restorative practice across all services
• Excellent staff engagement opportunities with quarterly staff briefing sessions, team manager meetings, staff reference groups and weekly chief officer chats
• Generous relocation package
• Local Government pension scheme
• A generous annual leave entitlement
• Defined career progression and pathway opportunities
• Car-sharing scheme
• A cycle purchase scheme and Travel pass
• Childcare vouchers & Paycare health scheme (contributory)
• Discounted leisure centre benefits

What will you be doing as a Senior Social Worker in Sandwell?

• Work directly with disabled children
• Cover and support duty
• Carry out single assessments
• Undertake child protection work, children in care work and high-level child in need
• Work with a ‘children first’ approach
• Incorporate social inclusion principles, anti-oppressive practice, and person-centred ways

Essential Requirements of this Senior Social Worker role:

• Social Work England registration
• Eligible to work in the UK
• Hold a full UK licence
• Post-qualified experience
• Degree level or equivalent in Social Work

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