
Job Title: Social Worker - Assessment Team
Location Birmingham
Rate £33.30 per hour
Liquid Personnel is seeking a qualified social worker to join a dynamic Assessment Team based in Birmingham.
What will your responsibilities be?
As a Referral and Assessment Social Worker, you will be responsible for conducting initial assessments to determine the needs and risks of children and families. You will handle Section 47 enquiries, which involve investigating cases where there is reasonable cause to suspect a child is suffering or likely to suffer significant harm. Additionally, you will manage Section 17 assessments to identify children in need and provide appropriate support services. Your role will also include participating in duty systems, where you respond to immediate concerns and referrals, ensuring timely and effective interventions. Through these responsibilities, you will work collaboratively with other professionals to safeguard and promote the welfare of children.
Benefits of the role:
Qualifications and Experiences:
To be successful in this role you must have Social Work England registration, be eligible to work in the UK, hold a qualification in Social Work at degree level, and have at least 2 years post-qualified experience.
How to apply?
If this is a job for you, feel free to click apply below or if you want to learn more about it, please contact Jordan Glass on 0161 543 6963.
Why Liquid Personnel?
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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Liquid Personnel is a specialist social work and healthcare recruitment consultancy. Founded in 2006, we are now the leading provider of agency social workers in the UK, trusted by over 150 organisations nationwide to provide exceptional agency staff.
We also specialise in the following divisions:
• Nursing - temporary and permanent nurses
• Allied Health Professionals - temporary occupational therapists and physiotherapists
• Criminal Justice - temporary prison nurses, probation officers, and youth offending officers
Accreditations:
- Listed in the UK's Best Medium Workplaces Awards 2013 - 2017; winners of the Laureate Award 2017, recognising that we have been ranked in the awards for 5 years in a row
- 24th in The Sunday Times 100 Best Small Companies to Work For 2016
- Winners of the Best People Development Business Award and Best Back Office Support Team Award 2016 at the Institute of Recruitment Professionals Awards
- 7th fastest-growing business in the Manchester area in the Greater Manchester Fastest 50 2016
- 11th in Recruiter Fast 50 2016 rankings
- Winners of "Best Large Recruitment Agency" at the Recruitment Business Awards 2015
- Holders of Investors in People status
- Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) Members
- 'Disability Confident Employers'