Senior Social Worker – Children in Care
Liquid PersonnelBarnsley, England, United Kingdom · Posted 4 months agoDescription
Liquid Personnel is looking for a Senior Social Worker to join our client's Children in Care team in Barnsley. This role is for an experienced practitioner who can manage a complex workload independently, providing high-quality interventions and acting as a mentor to develop practice standards within the team.
What will your responsibilities be?
- Expert Caseload Management: Independently manage a complex workload of children in care, maintaining high standards of professional practice.
- Relationship & Participation: Build effective relationships with children and families to ensure their views are central to decision-making and care planning.
- Advanced Assessment: Undertake and produce high-quality assessments in accordance with statutory and operational standards, with a focus on anticipating and managing risk in complex situations.
- Intervention & Review: Plan and implement a range of interventions for children and carers, ensuring regular reviews in line with service policies.
- Communication & Advocacy: Communicate confidently in high-risk or complex situations, clearly recording analysis and professional judgements in succinct reports.
- Mentoring & Leadership: Play a positive role in practice development by mentoring others and modelling best practices in assessments and inter-agency work.
- Professional Reflection: Make proactive use of supervision for reflection and career development to meet the requirements of the Professional Capabilities Framework.
Our Client’s Commitment:
- Safeguarding: Our client is committed to protecting and promoting the welfare of children and young people.
- Equal Opportunities: They value diversity and treat all individuals with respect in both service delivery and employment arrangements.
- Health & Safety: All employees are responsible for their own health and safety, as well as the safety of others, while carrying out their duties.
Qualifications & Experience:
To be successful in this role, you must have:
- Social Work England registration.
- CQSW, DipSW, or Degree in Social Work.
- Significant Post-Qualified Experience: Proven experience in a statutory Children in Care or similar frontline setting.
- Driving Licence: A full UK driving licence and access to a car insured for business use (essential car user post).
- Advanced Skills: Expertise in managing risk, complex assessments, and working effectively with partners and other agencies.
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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