Job Description

Job Title: Social Worker - Young People Team
Location: Merseyside
Pay Rate: £41,511 - £42,708 (depending on experience)

Liquid Personnel are in partnership with a client at Merseyside to recruit a Social Worker within their YPT Young People Team.
Are you a Qualified Social Worker? Do you want to make a difference to the lives of Children and Families through effective Social Care? Do you want to be part of a team that cares and will value your knowledge, experience and you as a person? Then Merseyside Children’s Services could be the place for you. Following their recent Ofsted inspection, Merseyside’s Children’s Social Care Services (CSC) department are on an improvement journey they would love you to be part of.

Benefits:

• Full-time and part-time vacancies available with up to 36 hours per week.
• A friendly, supportive team who genuinely cares about their employees.
• A smaller local authority in easy commuting distance from across the North West.
• Hybrid working options and free parking.
• A new engaging and ambitious leadership team in place, ensuring a work environment where you feel recognised, valued, and listened to.
• Flexible working, manageable caseloads, and a vast array of employee benefits.

Additional Benefits:

• Merseyside Council is a Disability Confident Employer, offering inclusive and accessible recruitment, providing reasonable adjustments, and supporting existing employees.
• Flexible & Hybrid Working: A scheme that allows you to manage your hours and plan your life more easily, including flexible hours, working from home, compressed hours, and part-time options.
• Generous Holiday Entitlement: Starting at 28 days leave with an option to buy an additional 10 days.
• Manageable Workloads: Directors work closely with the Heads of Service to ensure caseloads remain supported and manageable.
• Health & Inclusion: Differentiated sickness absence for individuals living with a disability and a dedicated Menopause policy.
• Pension & Induction: Local Government Pension Scheme and a newly developed bespoke four-week induction programme.
• Learning & Career Development: Merseyside Council offers a wide range of blended learning opportunities, a supportive Practice Improvement Team, and a newly developed progression pathway.
• Well-being Support: Monthly "MyTime" supervisions focused on your career, 4-weekly reflective supervision, and access to Signs of Safety Group Supervision.
• Employee Perks: Cycle to Work scheme, eye tests, childcare vouchers, free refreshments (tea, coffee, and milk), discounted gym membership, and VIVUP discounts.

As a YPT Social Worker, you will be working with Children in Care aged 14+

Qualifications and Experience:

To be successful in this role you must have;

• Hold a Social Work England registration.
• Be eligible to work in the UK.
• Hold a full UK driving licence.
• Social Work Qualification (degree or equivalent).
• At least 2 years’ experience as a social worker within children’s services.

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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