Liquid Personnel
Social Worker - Children In Care
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Liquid Personnel Recruitment
Liquid Personnel is recruiting a Children’s Social Worker to join its client’s Children In Care team, based in Cheshire West and Chester.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a supportive authority committed to achieving positive outcomes for children and young people in care. The successful candidate will manage a caseload of children in care, undertaking statutory visits, care planning, permanency planning, and working closely with families, carers, and partner agencies.
Responsibilities
- Manage a caseload of Children in Care, ensuring all statutory responsibilities are met.
- Complete statutory visits and maintain accurate, timely case recordings.
- Develop and review care plans to promote positive outcomes and permanence.
- Undertake assessments, reports, and court-related work where required.
- Build effective relationships with children, families, foster carers, and residential providers.
- Chair and participate in professional meetings, reviews, and multi-agency forums.
- Work collaboratively with education, health, and other partner agencies to safeguard children and support their development.
- Support children and young people through care proceedings, placement moves, and transition planning.
- Ensure all safeguarding concerns are identified and acted upon appropriately.
- Contribute to achieving permanence through reunification, long-term fostering, special guardianship, or adoption where appropriate.
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Benefits
- £38 per hour
- Full-time position
- Hybrid working arrangement
- Supportive management team
- Long-term contract opportunity
- Immediate start available
Qualifications and Experience
To be successful in this role you must have:
- Qualified Social Worker
- Social Work England Registration
- Experience within a Children in Care / Looked After Children Team
- Strong assessment, care planning, and safeguarding skills
- Experience completing statutory visits and permanency planning
- Ability to work effectively within a multi-agency environment
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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