Advanced Practitioner - Families First Team

Job description

Liquid Personnel is recruiting Advanced Practitioner for its client's Families First Team at Trafford. This is an excellent opportunity for a skilled Children's Social Worker to work within Trafford's Child in Need Service, supporting children and families through assessment, planning, and intervention. The service operates on a locality basis and is focused on delivering high-quality assessments, strengthening family support networks, and achieving positive outcomes for children. As an Advanced Practitioner, you will hold a varied caseload and play a key role in supporting the development of colleagues through coaching, supervision, and practice leadership. **What will your responsibilities be?** - Undertake Child and Family Assessments. - Complete Section 47 enquiries and safeguarding investigations. - Manage a caseload of children supported through Child in Need plans. - Build strong relationships with children, families, and partner agencies. - Support the safe step-down of plans where appropriate. - Provide coaching, supervision, and support to social workers and students. - Promote high-quality practice and contribute to service development. **Qualifications & Experience:** To be successful in this role you must have, - Qualified Social Worker - Social Work England Registration - Significant post-qualified experience within Children's Services - Experience of Child in Need, Assessment, and Safeguarding work - Ability to support and develop less experienced practitioners - Strong assessment, planning, and relationship-building skills **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 - 202497 GH - 36441