Social Worker - Looked After Children

Job Title: Social Worker - Looked After Children Location: Solihull Pay Rate: £33.30 per hour Job Description: Liquid Personnel is recruiting Social Worker for its client's Looked After Children team at Solihull. What will your responsibilities be? Our Children in Care service supports children who are in the care of the local authority after a final care order has been granted. We work with young people between the ages of 0-18 years old. We work hard to ensure that children and young people have the right plan in place for them for example this might include living within their relational network, with foster carers or in children’s residential care. We work hard in Solihull to ensure that only the children who need to be in local authority care are in care, we revisit family routinely to see if they have made changes to enable them to care for their children. Social workers in our service will be skilled at engaging with children and young people in creative ways, ensuring that their voice wishes and aspirations are evidenced and inform the care planning process, have an understanding of risk to children and young people in care and have strong assessment, analysis, and planning skills. We complete court work around discharges of care order and progression of placement and adoption orders and experience in this area will be advantageous. Benefits: Hybrid working Competitive rate of pay Qualifications & Experience: To be successful in this role you must have, Social Work England registration Eligible to work in the UK Hold a full UK driving licence Post-qualified experience Degree level or equivalent in Social Work 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. BH - 193377 GH - 32683