Liquid Personnel
Social Worker - Assessment Team
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Children’s Social Worker
Liquid Personnel is recruiting a Children’s Social Worker to join its client’s Assessment team, based in Buckinghamshire.
The successful candidate will undertake high-quality statutory assessments of children and families where there are concerns about a child's welfare, safety, development, or family circumstances.
You will work directly with children, parents, carers, and partner agencies to understand family circumstances, identify strengths and risks, and determine the most appropriate support and intervention required.
The role requires a confident practitioner who can manage a varied caseload, complete assessments within statutory timescales, and make sound professional decisions that promote positive outcomes for children and families.
Responsibilities
- Undertake comprehensive statutory assessments of children and families.
- Respond to referrals and assess the level of need, risk, and appropriate intervention.
- Undertake child and family assessments in line with relevant legislation and council procedures.
- Visit children and families in their homes and other appropriate settings.
- Ensure children's wishes, feelings, and lived experiences are central to assessments and decision-making.
- Identify safeguarding concerns and take appropriate action where children may be at risk of significant harm.
- Undertake and contribute to Section 47 enquiries where required.
- Participate in strategy discussions and multi-agency safeguarding meetings.
- Analyse family circumstances, parenting capacity, risks, strengths, and protective factors.
- Develop appropriate plans and recommendations based.
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Qualifications and Experience
To be successful in this role you must have:
- Social Work England registration
- Eligible to work in the UK
- Hold a full UK driving licence
- Post-qualified experience
- 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 *
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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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