Job Title: Children’s Senior Social Worker
Location: Sheffield
Pay Rate: £31 per hour

Job Description:

Liquid Personnel is seeking an experienced Social Worker on behalf of its client in Sheffield.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic team at the Sheffield Safeguarding Hub, where you will collaborate across services to protect and support children. The role focuses on delivering timely and proportionate interventions that enhance child safety and wellbeing, underpinned by expert analysis and coordinated safeguarding practices.

What will your responsibilities be?

• Act as a key member of the Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) team.
• Screen and respond to all new referrals into children’s social care.
• Serve as the first point of contact for children, young people, and families in need or at risk.
• Promote and safeguard the welfare of children across Sheffield.
• Ensure compliance with legislation and maintain high professional standards.
• Apply thresholds consistently for stepping up from early help to children’s social care.
• Use strong communication, engagement, and analytical skills to safeguard children.
• Possess sound knowledge of relevant legislation and front-line team experience.
• Maintain high standards to achieve better outcomes for children and families.
• Collaborate effectively across Children’s Services and other agencies to shape and deliver services.

Qualifications & Experience:

To be successful in this role you must have, 

• Hold a Social Work England registration
• Be eligible to work in the UK
• Hold a full UK driving license
• Social Work Qualification, degree or equivalent
• At least 2 years’ experience as a social worker within children’s services

Why Liquid Personnel?

•  Free DBS and compliance service
• Twice weekly payroll and ‘Faster Pay’ service, getting you paid more quickly
• Access to exclusive roles that aren’t available from 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 selection of social work positions across the UK
• “Refer a Friend” bonus – get £500 for each social worker you refer who we successfully place*
• “Find your own job” bonus – get £250 for bringing your own position 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 to our bonus schemes.

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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