Advanced Social Worker - Fostering Families and Friends Assessment

Liquid Personnel is currently recruiting for an Advanced Social Worker to join its client’s Fostering Families and Friends Assessment Team in Liverpool. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced children's social worker with a strong background in Kinship Assessments to undertake high-quality viability, Connected Persons, and Special Guardianship Order (SGO) assessments. Working within a supportive team, you will play a key role in identifying safe and sustainable family placements for children, ensuring positive outcomes through robust assessment and informed decision-making

What will your responsibilities be?

As an Advanced Social Worker, you will complete comprehensive Kinship, Connected Persons, viability, and Special Guardianship Order (SGO) assessments, providing detailed analysis to determine the suitability of relatives and family friends to care for children and young people. You will undertake regular statutory visits to carers, ensuring children remain safeguarded and that all assessments are child-focused and evidence-based.

You will be responsible for managing complex cases, applying sound professional judgement and critical analysis to inform decision-making. Working to court timescales and service deadlines, you will produce high-quality assessments while maintaining excellent knowledge of relevant legislation, policies, and frameworks relating to Looked After Children and Kinship Care.

Benefits:

• Excellent rate of pay
• Great Senior Management Support
• Flexible/ Hybrid working
• Free on-site parking
• MS Teams interviews

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.

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