Job Description

Job Title: Principal Social Worker
Location: Wolverhampton (Hybrid)
Pay Rate: £35.44 per hour

About the Role:

Liquid Personnel is looking for a forward thinking, dynamic Principal Social Worker to lead, motivate and inspire Wolverhampton’s social workers across Adults and Children’s Services, working closely with the senior leadership teams and Directors to raise the profile of social work and offer effective challenge.

What will your responsibilities be?

In this role, you will lead the strategic development of social work practice by overseeing training, recruitment, and retention, including pathways into the profession. You will manage a robust quality assurance programme to support continuous learning and improvement, and take responsibility for policy, procedures, and inspection activities, including those related to the Care Quality Commission (CQC). You will also represent the council in national and regional forums, advise senior leadership, and provide expert guidance to social workers and social care practitioners. The role includes managing a team comprising a Deputy Principal Social Worker (PSW), Advanced Practitioners, and Improvement Officers.

Benefits:

• Hybrid working
• Competitive rate of pay

Qualifications & Experience:

To be successful in this role you must have,

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

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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