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Social Worker – Kingston/Richmond – Looked After Children, Kingston upon Thames
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Location: Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom
Job Category:
Other
EU work permit required: Yes
Job Reference:
496d578de2f4
Job Views:
26
Posted:
13.04.2025
Expiry Date:
28.05.2025
Job Description:
Liquid Personnel is currently recruiting for a Social Worker to join a busy Looked After Children’s Team based in Kingston/Richmond.
This role will involve working alongside other professionals to ensure that a child and/or young person receives appropriate care, education, health services, and any other support needed to ensure their needs are appropriately met.
What’s in it for you as a Social Worker?
* Generous annual leave entitlements
* Free or reduced parking rates
* Cycle to work scheme
* Annual season ticket loan
* Childcare vouchers and discounts on a range of local shops, restaurants, gyms, and leisure centres
* Excellent learning and development opportunities and schemes of support
* A competitive and desirable retention package (to include a generous local government pension scheme)
* A clear progression path when key qualification milestones are reached
* Tools and models to support, including Signs of Safety
* Reflective supervision from an experienced management team
* Regular whole service away days
Your main responsibilities as a Social Worker:
The Social Worker will support children living with relatives, friends of foster families, and prospective adopters or children living in children’s homes and young people in semi-independent units. They will be responsible for ensuring their safety and supporting them towards independence by:
* Undertaking regular statutory visits
* Completing and updating assessments
* Care Planning
* Working as part of a professional network to meet the needs of the children and young people
What we are looking for in a Social Worker:
* Educated to a degree level with the relevant social work qualification
* Appropriate understanding of statutory legislation for example the Children Act
* Planning skills for assessing and reviewing children and young people’s needs and planning packages of care across a range of cases
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