Job Title: Social Work – Look After Children
Location: Aylesbury
Pay Rate: £40 per hour.
Liquid Personnel is recruiting a Children’s Social Worker to join its client’s Look After Children team, based in Aylesbury.
What will your responsibilities be?
1. Manage a caseload of children who are in the care of the local authority.
2. Develop, implement, and regularly review care plans tailored to each child’s needs.
3. Ensure children’s placements (foster care, residential care, kinship care) are safe, stable, and supportive.
4. Promote the child’s health, education, and emotional wellbeing, ensuring access to appropriate services.
5. Maintain regular contact with children through statutory visits and direct work.
6. Prepare and present reports for Looked After Child Reviews.
7. Work closely with birth families, carers, schools, health professionals, and other agencies.
8. Support children through transitions, including reunification with family, adoption, or leaving care.
9. Advocate for the child’s voice to be heard in all aspects of planning and decision-making.
Qualifications and Experience:
To be successful in this role you must have.
10. Social Work England registration
11. Eligible to work in the UK
12. Hold a full UK driving licence
13. Post-qualified experience
14. Degree level or equivalent in Social Work
Why Liquid Personnel?
15. Free DBS and compliance service
16. Twice weekly payroll and ‘Faster Pay’ service, getting you paid more quickly
17. Access to exclusive roles that aren’t available from other agencies
18. Free access to Liquid’s exclusive social work training and CPD portal
19. Your own dedicated consultant with extensive social work knowledge
20. Access to a wide selection of social work positions across the UK
21. “Refer a Friend” bonus – get £500 for each social worker you refer who we successfully place*
22. “Find your own job” bonus – get £250 for bringing your own position to us *