Job Description

Liquid Personnel is recruiting for an ‘Outstanding’ Ofsted‑rated, medium‑sized Independent Fostering Provider based in the North West. This well‑established organisation is a preferred provider for local authorities and is recognised by Ofsted for delivering highly effective services that significantly improve outcomes for children and young people. The provider operates a specialist therapeutic service, offering wrap‑around support including designated Supervising Social Workers trained in Therapeutic Parenting, access to Psychotherapists, a Therapeutic Life Story Worker and Foster Carer Champions, all focused on empowering carers to become trauma‑sensitive caregivers. The role offers an excellent benefits package, including up to 39 days annual leave, a competitive pension scheme, and access to the Your Wellbeing Matters programme, providing high‑quality mental health support and physical health checks
What will your responsibilities be?

In this role, you will:

• Play a key role in helping vulnerable children and young people find a foster home that can transform their future.
• Supervise and advise foster carers, ensuring both carers and children have the support they need to thrive.
• Visit homes and keep in touch with both carers and young people, acting as an essential point of contact and safeguarding champion.
• Collaborate with specialist clinical teams to identify and make available the right kinds of support, from occupational therapy to art therapy, and clinicians with specialism in trauma and attachment theory.
• Manage lower caseloads to offer a more bespoke, person-centric focus and deliver the best possible outcomes.
• Ensure that children and young people are safe and secure, well looked after, and that high standards are consistently maintained.

Benefits:

The position offers an exceptional reward package, including:

• Up to 39 days annual leave each year (25 base entitlement + 1 "One Moment in Time" day + 8 bank holidays + ability to buy up to 5 extra days)
• Life Assurance
• Pension scheme with options to increase contributions
• "Your Wellbeing Matters" – access to a wide range of first-class mental health support services and physical health checks
• Market-leading Flexible Benefits Platform ("Vista") including:
• A wide range of health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits
• 100’s of discount options valid in the UK and abroad
• Cycle to Work Schemes
• Electric Car Purchase Scheme
• Critical illness cover

Qualifications and Experience:

To be successful in this role you must have:

• A BA or MA degree in social work or equivalent.
• Registration with the appropriate body (Social Work England).
• A full driving licence.
• Previous social work experience, with a record of working with young people who have a history of trauma and enhanced needs.
• A confident, imaginative, energetic, and open-minded approach.
• The right to work in the UK.

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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