Job Purpose: To assist individuals and families in meeting their social care needs within legal and policy frameworks, enhancing their wellbeing, independence, and life quality, and protecting them from significant harm when necessary.

• Main Responsibilities:
  Assess social work service needs, including risk identification and protection requirements, and determine intervention methods.
• Decide on or advise about the use of Children’s Social Care Services and other resources, liaising with professionals and agencies to ensure optimal service delivery.
• Manage a caseload according to group priorities and Authority policies, complying with statutory obligations, maintaining records, and performing administrative tasks.
• Prepare for supervision, attend meetings, engage in training, contribute to service evaluation and development, and supervise and train students and staff.

  Qualifications:
  To be compliant with professional standards, it is essential to have a CQSW/DipSW or an equivalent qualification, a PQ Child Care Award/BAAF or its equivalent, and an active SWE (Social Work England) registration. In addition to these qualifications, extensive experience in child care, especially in working with looked-after children, is crucial. This includes supervising foster carers, mentoring, planning, and delivering support, as well as a thorough understanding of information systems.

Key competencies include:

• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, and the ability to adapt positively during significant changes in social work.
• Effective time management and the capacity to work efficiently with service users, demonstrating initiative, and the ability to plan and manage casework independently.
• A proven track record of evidencing outcomes and the impact of interventions on a child’s journey, ensuring that young people’s voices are heard and their lived experiences influence their assessments and plans, and successful collaboration with partner agencies and colleagues from various disciplines.

Why Liquid Personnel?

• New ‘Faster Pay’ service getting you paid more quickly
• Twice weekly payroll
• Free DBS and compliance service
• 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 £250 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*
 
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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