Social Worker - Children Looked After

Liquid Personnel is recruiting Social Worker for its client's Children Looked After team at Essex.

You will support children and young people in care, ensuring their safety, wellbeing and long-term stability through effective care planning and ongoing support.

What will your responsibilities be?

• Manage a caseload of children looked after.

• Undertake assessments and develop care plans.

• Complete statutory visits and attend reviews.

• Support placement stability and permanency planning.

• Work closely with children, families and partner agencies.

• Maintain accurate records and prepare reports.

Benefits:

• Competitive rate of £38 per hour.

• 30-hour working week.

• Valuable experience within a specialist CLA team.

• Opportunity to make a positive difference to vulnerable children and young people.

Qualifications & Experience:

To be successful in this role you must have,

• Recognised Social Work qualification. (e.g. degree)

• Current Social Work England registration.

• Experience working with children looked after.

• Knowledge of safeguarding and relevant legislation.

• Strong assessment, communication and report-writing skills.

• Ability to manage a varied caseload.

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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