Liquid Personnel is recruiting an Advanced Children’s Social Worker to join its client's East Riding of Yorkshire Localities Team. This is a fantastic opportunity for a senior practitioner to take a lead role in complex child care cases, support the development of other social workers, and contribute to service-wide practice improvement. The role involves managing complex caseloads, supporting looked after children, and providing professional guidance, mentoring, and supervision to less experienced colleagues and social work students. What will your responsibilities be? In this role, you will: Complete statutory assessments to determine needs and recommend appropriate plans and actions. Act as lead professional on allocated complex child care cases, including assessment, intervention, and care planning for looked after children. Coordinate, commission, and monitor a range of services to meet children’s needs. Work in accordance with childcare legislation, statutory guidance, and local policies and procedures. Co-work complex cases alongside other social workers within the team. Maintain accurate, up-to-date case records using electronic case management systems. Prepare high-quality reports for reviews, panels, and court proceedings. Develop integrated multi-agency practice to assess, plan, and deliver services for children and families. Mentor, coach, and support newly qualified social workers, including opportunities for co-working and observational learning. Support and supervise social work students. Provide professional guidance and support to practitioners within the team, including attendance at reviews, panels, and court as required. Contribute to the development of best practice across the service through coaching, training, team meetings, and dissemination of research, policy, and procedure updates. Support the Team Manager in developing and embedding quality assurance processes to improve performance and outcomes. Undertake any other duties appropriate to the grade and level of responsibility. Communicate effectively in English to meet the requirements of the Immigration Act 2016. Qualifications & Experience: To be successful in this role you must have: Degree level qualification in Social Work (or equivalent). Registered with Social Work England. Significant post-qualified experience in Children’s Social Work. Experience of managing complex child care and looked after children cases. Proven ability to mentor, support, and develop other social workers. Strong knowledge of childcare legislation, statutory frameworks, and safeguarding practice. Eligible to work in the UK. Benefits: Competitive agency rate of £37 per hour Senior practitioner role with leadership and mentoring responsibilities Opportunity to influence practice development and quality assurance Supportive management and collaborative team environment Stable Monday–Friday working pattern Why Liquid Personnel? Free DBS and compliance service Twice‑weekly payroll and Faster Pay service Access to exclusive roles not available through 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 range of social work roles across the UK Refer a Friend bonus – get £500 for each social worker successfully placed* Find Your Own Job bonus – get £250 for bringing your own role to us* Liquid Personnel is an equal opportunities employer. Liquid Personnel Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. *Terms and conditions apply. Reasonable Adjustments: If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please notify us at the earliest opportunity. We will ensure appropriate support is provided throughout the process and into your placement. Liquid Personnel is unable to support or accept applications from candidates who are residents of countries listed on 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. BH – 198697 GH – 34806