Liquid Personnel are currently recruiting for an experienced Social Worker to join the Long Term Children in Care Team based in Northamptonshire. 

As a successful candidate, you will be responsible for complex cases, ensuring children’s safety and supporting them towards independence, while fulfilling the council’s obligations as a corporate parent. You will also be involved in permanency planning for children, ensuring their holistic needs are met in their long-term placement

Your benefits as a Long Term Children in Care Social Worker:

• Excellent starting salary
• Generous annual leave entitlement
• Recruitment bonus of £4,000
• Flexible working
• Training and progression

Your duties as a Long Term Children in Care Social Worker:

• Assess, plan, review and provide support to a child, family or carer with complex family or social care needs, taking full account of appropriate legal frameworks, policy, and guidance
• Work collaboratively, building effective working relationships with other professionals, internally and externally.
• Carry out an assessment or enquiry and plan responses to safeguard a child from abuse, neglect, or exploitation.
• Arrange appropriate alternative care (including, where appropriate a permanent home) in collaboration with children, young people, and their parents/carers where the parents/carers cannot care for them.
• Maintain up to date, accurate and high-quality records of activity on cases.
• Participate in a range of planning and decision-making forums including case discussions, Strategy Meetings, Legal Planning meetings, Child Protection Conferences, Statutory Reviews
• Write court reports and give evidence in relation to children at risk during legal proceeding.

Your requirements as a Long Term Children in Care Social Worker:

• Qualified Social Worker, with a valid Social Work England registration
• Eligible to work in the UK
• Hold a full UK licence
• Post-qualified experience in Children’s Services 

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