Senior Social Worker - Fostering Recruitment & Assessment
Liquid PersonnelStockton-on-Tees, County Durham, United Kingdom · Posted 1 month agoDescription
Liquid Personnel is recruiting an experienced Senior Social Worker to join its client's Fostering Recruitment & Assessment Team at Stockton-on-Tees. This is an excellent opportunity to work within a specialist fostering service focused on recruiting, assessing, and supporting foster carers to provide safe and stable homes for children and young people.
As a Senior Social Worker, you will play a key role in undertaking fostering assessments, with a particular focus on kinship foster carers, special guardianship assessments, and the development of robust support plans. You will work closely with children, families, carers, and partner agencies to deliver high-quality assessments and positive outcomes for children.
What will your responsibilities be?
- Undertake comprehensive fostering assessments, including kinship foster carer assessments.
- Complete Special Guardianship Order (SGO) assessments and associated reports.
- Develop robust and effective support plans tailored to the needs of children and carers.
- Prepare high-quality assessments and reports for fostering panels and court proceedings where required.
- Work collaboratively with foster carers, family members, and partner agencies.
- Ensure all assessments and recordings are completed accurately and within statutory timescales.
- Contribute to the recruitment, assessment, and retention of foster carers within the service.
Benefits:
- Competitive rate of pay.
- Opportunity to work within a specialist Fostering Recruitment & Assessment Team.
- Supportive management and team environment.
- Valuable experience within fostering and permanence services.
Qualifications & Experience:
To be successful in this role you must have,
- Social Work England registration.
- Eligible to work in the UK.
- Significant post-qualified experience within Children's Social Care.
- Experience undertaking fostering assessments, particularly kinship foster carer assessments.
- Experience completing Special Guardianship assessments and support plans.
- Degree level or equivalent in Social Work.
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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GH - 35670
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