Job Title: Social Worker – Looked After ChildrenLocation: Solihull
Pay Rate: £33.30 per hour
Job Description:
Liquid Personnel is recruiting Social Worker for its client’s Looked After Children team at Solihull.
What will your responsibilities be?
1. Our Children in Care service supports children who are in the care of the local authority after a final care order has been granted. We work with young people between the ages of 0-18 years old. We work hard to ensure that children and young people have the right plan in place for them for example this might include living within their relational network, with foster carers or in children’s residential care.
2. We work hard in Solihull to ensure that only the children who need to be in local authority care are in care, we revisit family routinely to see if they have made changes to enable them to care for their children.
3. Social workers in our service will be skilled at engaging with children and young people in creative ways, ensuring that their voice wishes and aspirations are evidenced and inform the care planning process, have an understanding of risk to children and young people in care and have strong assessment, analysis, and planning skills. We complete court work around discharges of care order and progression of placement and adoption orders and experience in this area will be advantageous.
Benefits:
4. Hybrid working
5. Competitive rate of pay
Qualifications & Experience:
To be successful in this role you must have,
6. Social Work England registration
7. Eligible to work in the UK
8. Hold a full UK driving licence
9. Post-qualified experience
10. Degree level or equivalent in Social Work
Why Liquid Personnel?
11. Free DBS and compliance service
12. Twice weekly payroll and ‘Faster Pay’ service, getting you paid more quickly
13. Access to exclusive roles that aren’t available from other agencies
14. Free access to Liquid’s exclusive social work training and CPD portal
15. Your own dedicated consultant with extensive social work knowledge
16. Access to a wide selection of social work positions across the UK
17. “Refer a Friend” bonus – get £500 for each social worker you refer who we successfully place*
18. “Find your own job” bonus – get £250 for bringing your own position to us *