Job Description

Job Title: Social Worker – Fostering Team (Kinship Focus)
Location: Middlesbrough.
Pay Rate: £ 36.36/per hour

Liquid Personnel is seeking an experienced and compassionate Children's Social Worker to join our client in the North East of England. We are looking for a dedicated professional to become a part of a Fostering Team, with an initial focus on Kinship. This is an exciting opportunity to make a significant difference in the lives of children and young people in care. By joining the team, you will help them thrive in their foster families through creative and meaningful interventions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conducting statutory visits every six weeks and ensuring timely and accurate case recordings.
• Collaborating with teams to create pathways and stepping stones towards independence, prioritising a young person-centred approach.
• Preventing placement breakdowns by providing targeted support to children in care and their foster carers or hosts.
• Delivering consistent supervision, support, and reviews, including attendance and presentations at the Fostering/Supported Lodgings Panel.
• Demonstrating exceptional organisational and communication skills to meet deadlines and produce thorough written reports.
• Following safeguarding procedures rigorously, escalating concerns appropriately, and contributing to the development of Foster Carers and Supported Lodgings Hosts through training sessions.
• Promoting the safety and wellbeing of children and young people, addressing their physical, emotional, and mental health needs.
• Working collaboratively within multi-professional teams to support children in thriving within kinship or mainstream foster families.
• Building meaningful relationships with children, young people, their carers, and relevant professionals to achieve desired outcomes.
• Undertaking direct work with children and carers on issues such as family conflict, breakdown, behaviour concerns, school attendance, emotional health, and risk of exploitation.
• Supporting children and young people with a strengths-based, therapeutic approach.
• Escorting, supervising, or transporting children when necessary, as part of planned interventions.
• Discussing expenditure proposals with the budget holder and seeking approvals where required.

Requirements:

• Degree in Social Work or related field.
• 2+ years of social care experience.
• Knowledge of the Care Act.
• Strong communication skills.
• Ability to travel for work.

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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