Job Description

Job Title: Social Worker – Child Protection
Location: Telford
Rate: £30.57

Liquid Personnel is currently recruiting experienced Qualified Social Workers to join a Fostering and Kinship Team in Telford.

What will your responsibilities be?
You will undertake a variety of assessments within the kinship pathway, requiring a positive attitude and a focus on quality and analytical practice to ensure safe placements within children’s networks. Additionally, you will manage a complex caseload of assessments through both private and public law, and you must have experience in producing high-quality court reports. You will also deliver training and support to other services, applicants, and carers to foster more cohesive working relationships. You will participate in meetings and forums to raise the profile of kinship care, encourage early referrals, and seek permanence for children within their networks. Our team is very experienced, highly supportive, friendly, and passionate about the work. You will work hard but also find time to celebrate achievements and good practice. The Kinship Assessment Team collaborates closely with the Kinship Support Team, Mainstream Fostering Teams, and Social Workers and managers from other Children’s Services. The work is interesting, often complex and challenging, but it is crucial to achieving placement stability and permanence for the children.

Benefits of the role:

• Flexible/Hybrid working opportunities
• Manageable caseload
• Excellent rate of pay
• Condensed working and part-time roles can be discussed

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 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 Chloe Donovan on 01612387493.

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 £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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