Job Title: Social Worker – Children Looked After – Knowsley
Location: Knowsley
Pay Rate: £41,511 – £42,708 per annum
Liquid Personnel is currently recruiting a Social Worker – Children Looked After on behalf of our esteemed client. We are proud to be working in partnership with our Knowsley Client to support their Children Looked After Team with this important appointment.
Responsibilities :
In this role, you will support children in care as a Children Looked After Social Worker, taking over cases from the Initial Hearing stage. You will manage court-related responsibilities without involvement in Child Protection or Child in Need cases. The role typically involves handling a maximum of three to four sets of legal proceedings simultaneously. You will also contribute to permanency planning for children, ensuring long-term stability and well-being. This includes preparing reports, attending court hearings, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to secure the best outcomes for each child.
Benefits of working for Knowsley:
1. Full time and part time vacancies available with up to 36 hours per week
2. A friendly, supportive team who genuinely cares about their employees
3. A smaller local authority in easy commuting distance from across the North West
4. Hybrid working options
5. Free parking
6. A new engaging and ambitious leadership team in place, who will ensure that you work in an environment where you feel recognised, valued, and listened to.
7. Flexible working, manageable caseloads and a vast array of employee benefits details of which can be found below
Additional Benefits:
8. Knowsley are a Disability Confident Employer, meaning they offer Inclusive & accessible recruitment, offering an interview to disabled people, providing reasonable adjustments, & supporting existing employees.
9. Flexible working, Hybrid working arrangements & family friendly initiatives; their flexible working scheme allows you to manage your hours & plan your life more easily. They will consider requests for flexible working. For most roles, the following types of flexibility are usually possible: flexible hours, working from home, compressed hours, part-time.
10. Generous Holiday Entitlement: starting at 28 days leave with an option to buy additional 10 days leave
11. Manageable Workloads - directors of their service work closely with the Heads of Service & Team Managers to ensure caseloads are manageable & you are supported.
12. Differentiated sickness absence for individuals living with a disability.
13. Menopause policy supporting women in the workplace.
14. Local Government Pension Scheme
15. Newly Developed Bespoke Four-Week Induction Programme
16. High Quality IT Kit supporting agile working arrangements
17. Learning & Career Development: Knowsley offer a wide range of blended learning opportunities available to all employees, which will be relevant to your job & progression
18. Supportive Practice Improvement Team – They have a team of experienced staff who build positive working relationships with staff to work alongside you to embed learning from audits or reviews.
19. A range of Workers Groups, g., Black & Minority Workers’ Group, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Forum, Neurodiverse Staff Support Group.
20. Well-being Support: Knowsley want to improve the well-being of our employees both in & out of the workplace
21. Apprenticeship Offer
22. Secondment Opportunities
23. MyTime – Monthly supervisions scheduled with you. This is your one-to-one time solely focused on your career development
24. Reflective Supervision – 4 weekly
25. Access to Signs of Safety Group Supervision
26. Newly Developed Progression Pathway
27. Learning at Work Week: A yearly celebration awards to recognise & celebrate individual practice across the council.
28. Visible and accessible Leadership including Monthly Principal Social Worker (PSW) drop-in sessions
29. Themed Practice Learning Week: Providing a range of bitesize learning opportunities.
30. Cycle to Work Scheme: We are committed to greener transport solutions. Our scheme entitles you to significant discounts on the price of a new bike & safety equipment.
31. Eye Tests: We provide all display screen users with a free eye test on request. We have a corporate eye care scheme which includes a contribution to the cost of glasses
32. Childcare Vouchers
33. Free Refreshments – Tea, Coffee and Milk
34. Discounted Gym Membership
35. Credit Union Membership
36. VIVUP Discounts & Savings The program offers a staff discount scheme.
Qualifications and Experience:
37. Hold a Social Work England registration.
38. Be eligible to work in the UK.
39. Hold a full UK driving licence.
40. Social Work Qualification, degree or equivalent.
41. At least 2 years’ experience as a social worker within children’s services.
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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