Job Description

Liquid Personnel is recruiting a Children’s Social Worker to join its client’s Children’s Permanence & Throughcare team, based in Edinburgh & Borders Region.

This role seeks an experienced Social Worker to support care‑experienced children across the Edinburgh and Borders area. You will focus on long‑term permanence, ensuring children unable to return home find stability through kinship, fostering, or adoption, guided by The Promise and centred on children’s rights, voices, and wellbeing.

What will your responsibilities be?

In this position, you will manage a specialized caseload of children and young people looked after in permanent placements. Your key responsibilities will include:

• Permanence Assessments: Completing high-quality Form E and Form F assessments to secure stable, lifelong homes.
• Legal Navigation: Navigating the Children’s Hearing System and providing expert evidence in Sheriff Court for Permanence Orders and Adoption.
• Life Story Work: Helping children understand their history and identity through creative, trauma-informed direct work.
• Placement Support: Providing robust support to kinship carers and foster families to maintain placement stability and prevent breakdown.

Benefits:

• Competitive Pay: An excellent rate of £36.00 per hour.
• Regional Reach: A unique opportunity to work across the vibrant landscape of the Edinburgh and Borders region.
• Trauma-Informed Culture: Join a service that prioritizes relationship-based practice and provides clinical supervision to help manage the emotional impact of the work.
• Hybrid Model: Flexible working options that allow you to manage your admin and reports from home while remaining present for the children in your care.

Qualifications and Experience:

To be successful in this role you must have.

• Registration: Current registration with the SSSC (Scottish Social Services Council) is mandatory.
• Experience: Significant experience in a statutory Children and Families setting, with a strong grasp of permanence and adoption legislation in Scotland.
• Knowledge: Expert knowledge of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 and the Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007.
• Transport: A full UK driving license and access to a vehicle are essential due to the geographical spread of the region.

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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