Social Worker – Children in Care

Overview

Job Title:

Social Worker – Children in Care

Location:

Wakefield

Pay Rate: £35 per hour

Job Description : Liquid Personnel is recruiting a Qualified Social Worker to join its client’s Children in Care (CIC) team based in Wakefield.

• Preventative Work: undertake preventative measures with service users to mitigate safeguarding concerns, including investigating significant harm concerns and using legislation effectively to ensure welfare of service users.
• Social Work Service: deliver a Social Work service to individuals, their families, and carers, including assessing needs and addressing them through direct therapeutic work, care planning, and management; integrate theoretical approaches with practice.
• Caseload Management: manage a caseload, make complex decisions in line with professional criteria, and ensure casework is planned, critically evaluated, and reviewed; engage with increasingly complex and challenging situations including multi‑agency input, complex family dynamics, multiple problems / disadvantages, multiple significant risk factors, and public interest considerations.
• Care Provision: ensure appropriate care for service users by utilizing existing mainstream and specialist resources, demonstrating innovation where appropriate; take responsibility for and supervise service users who receive care services and conduct expert and robust reviews of such cases.
• Expert Witness Role: act as an expert witness and provide evidence to courts and other relevant bodies, including presenting reports and applications for appropriate Legal Orders; collaborate with other agencies to deliver a Social Work service and represent the organization’s perspective.
• Multi‑disciplinary Contributions: contribute to multi‑disciplinary assessments, lead meetings when required, participate in planning meetings and reviews, mentor newly qualified and less experienced Social Workers, and offer placements to Social Work students as a practice educator; manage a challenging caseload and seek support as needed.

To be successful in this role you must have :

• Social Work England registration
• Eligibility to work in the UK
• A full UK driving licence
• Post-qualified experience
• Degree level or equivalent in Social Work

• Free DBS and compliance service
• Twice weekly payroll and ‘Faster Pay’ service
• Access to exclusive roles not 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