What will your responsibilities be?

In this role, you will:

• Managing a caseload of complex child protection and safeguarding cases.
• Undertaking statutory assessments, child protection enquiries, and statutory visits.
• Assessing risk and implementing effective interventions to safeguard children.
• Contributing to child protection conferences, reviews, and multi-agency meetings.
• Preparing high-quality reports, assessments, and case records.
• Working closely with families, schools, health professionals, police, and partner agencies.
• Ensuring children’s wishes and feelings are represented in planning and decision-making.
• Managing cases effectively and meeting statutory timescales.
• Promoting strengths-based, child-centred social work practice.
• Ensuring the safety, welfare, and best interests of children remain the highest priority.

Qualifications & Experience:

To be successful in this role you must have:

• Social Work England registration.
• A recognised Social Work qualification (Degree, DipSW, CQSW, or equivalent).
• Experience working within statutory Children’s Services.
• Experience managing child protection, safeguarding, and assessment caseloads.
• Strong assessment, report writing, and risk management skills.
• Excellent communication and partnership-working abilities.

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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