Senior Social Worker - Kinship Team

Job description

Liquid Personnel is recruiting a Children’s Social Worker to join its client’s Kinship team, based in Gateshead We are a dedicated and supportive service committed to achieving positive outcomes for children and young people who are unable to live with their parents and are being cared for by family members or connected persons. As a Senior Social Worker within the Kinship Team, you will play a vital role in assessing, supporting, and supervising kinship carers to ensure children are provided with safe, stable, and nurturing family environments. You will bring a high level of expertise to the team, supporting colleagues and ensuring best practice is maintained across all aspects of kinship work. **What will your responsibilities be?** - Deliver a high-quality kinship social work service in line with statutory requirements, legislation, and Gateshead Council policies and procedures. - Undertake comprehensive kinship assessments, including Connected Person Assessments and Special Guardianship Assessments. - Provide ongoing support, guidance, and supervision to kinship carers and special guardians. - Ensure that children’s needs, wishes, and feelings are central to all assessments and care planning. - Work collaboratively with children, families, carers, and partner agencies to achieve the best possible outcomes. - Support less experienced social workers through mentoring, coaching, and sharing best practice. - Prepare detailed assessments, court reports, and permanency plans within required timescales. - Maintain accurate and up-to-date case records in accordance with professional standards. - Contribute to service development and promote high-quality, relationship-based practice. **Benefits:** - Supportive and experienced management team. - Competitive rate of pay. - Flexible working arrangements. - Opportunities for professional development and career progression. - Collaborative and child-focused working culture. **Qualifications and Experience:** To be successful in this role you must have; - Social Work England registration. - Eligibility to work in the UK. - Full UK driving licence. - Degree level qualification (or equivalent) in Social Work. - Significant post-qualified experience within Children's Services. - Experience undertaking kinship, connected persons, or special guardianship assessments. - Strong assessment, analytical, and report-writing 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 -**202319 **GH -** 36149