Liquid Personnel is recruiting Social Worker for its client's Children with Disabilities Team at Manchester.

This is an excellent opportunity to become part of a highly supportive and experienced team consisting of 4 Social Workers, 2 Advanced Practitioners, and a Team Manager, working with children and young people with disabilities and complex needs.

What will your responsibilities be?

As a Social Worker within the Children with Disabilities Team, you will work with children and families across a range of statutory interventions, including:

• Children in Need (CIN)
• Child Protection (CP)
• Children Looked After (CLA)

You will undertake assessments, care planning and intervention work to ensure children receive the right support at the right time. The role also involves assessing eligibility for short breaks and supporting access to appropriate packages of care for children with disabilities and complex needs.

Benefits:

• Competitive rate of £35 per hour
• Supportive and experienced management team
• Regular supervision and access to ongoing training
• Opportunity to work within an innovative service involved in the Families First Reforms Test & Learn Programme
• Hybrid working opportunities available, subject to team manager agreement
• Free parking available near the office

About the Team:

The team is based at Wythenshawe, in the south of the city. The service operates a largely office-based model to promote collaboration, team identity, resilience and peer support, while allowing flexibility where appropriate.

This is an exciting time to join the service as Manchester continues to develop and shape future ways of working through its involvement in the Families First Reforms programme.

Qualifications & Experience:

To be successful in this role you must have, 

• Qualified Social Worker with Social Work England registration
• Experience working within Children's Services
• Strong assessment and safeguarding skills
• Ability to manage a varied caseload and work effectively with partner agencies

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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