Advanced Practitioner – Families First (CIN & Assessment)
Liquid PersonnelTrafford, United Kingdom · Posted 3 months agoDescription
Liquid Personnel is recruiting an experienced Advanced Practitioner – Families First (CIN & Assessment) to join its client team based across various locality in Trafford. This is a full‑time agency role offering £37 per hour and supporting elevated Child in Need practice and robust initial assessments across the borough.
What will your responsibilities be?
In this role, you will:
- Clinical Leadership: Provide expert coaching, support, and formal supervision to designated staff or social work students, facilitating their professional growth.
- Complex Case Management: Manage a varied and manageable workload, including high-complexity Child and Family assessments and Section 47 (S47) enquiries.
- Practice Quality: Model "best practice" in CIN planning, ensuring that assessments are analytical, child-centered, and completed within statutory timescales.
- Relational Partnership: Build and maintain strong partnerships with families and agencies to enable the safe and timely "step down" of plans to universal or early help services.
- Duty Participation: Contribute to the team duty rota, providing senior-level oversight and decision-making during assessment peaks.
- Service Development: Support the authority's goal of raising the status of CIN work, ensuring a consistent and robust approach throughout the locality.
Qualifications & Experience:
To be successful in this role, you must have:
- Social Work England registration and a recognized Social Work qualification.
- Advanced Experience: Significant post-qualified experience in frontline safeguarding, assessment, and Child in Need work.
- Supervisory Skills: Proven experience in supervising, mentoring, or coaching social workers or students (e.g., as a Practice Educator).
- Analytical Assessment: High-level skills in undertaking S47 enquiries and complex risk assessments.
- Compliance: Candidates must provide a 5-year reference history (with all gaps checked) and must pass the DfE Recommendation Compliance Questions to be considered for submission.
Working Hours & Hybrid Pattern:
- Locality‑based role within one of Trafford’s locality teams
- Office‑based expectation to provide visible leadership and supervision, typically three days per week
- Full‑time agency placement
Benefits:
- £37 per hour (umbrella)
- Opportunity to work within a specialist Families First service
- Supportive and developmental working environment
- Meaningful leadership role with direct impact on practice quality
Our Commitment:
- Elevated Practice: We are committed to treating Child in Need work with the same rigor and status as Child Protection, preventing escalation through high-quality early statutory intervention.
- Supportive Culture: As an Advanced Practitioner, you will be a cornerstone of our service, helping to foster a culture of learning, openness, and professional excellence.
Note to Applicants: This role is ideal for Senior Social Workers seeking progression into leadership or experienced Advanced Practitioners who enjoy a balance of complex casework and staff development.
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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