Social Worker – Family Help & Front Door

Job description

Liquid Personnel is recruiting a Children’s Social Worker to join its client’s Family Help & Front Door team, based in Manchester. This is a unique, non-case holding social work opportunity designed to bridge the gap between Family Help Services and the Front Door of Social Care. Rather than managing a traditional caseload, you will act as a community-facing consultant and facilitator, ensuring families receive early, effective intervention and that risk is identified accurately at the point of referral. **What will your responsibilities be?** - Community Outreach: Reach out into the community to support families by building on their existing strengths and facilitating access to necessary support services. - Front Door Support: Work alongside First Response Advisors and multi-agency partners to process referrals, share information, and identify both risks and strengths. - Partnership Coordination: Use high-level partnership skills to draw agencies together, showing partners how to build effective plans and enable successful interventions. - Service Navigation: Ensure the "right work reaches the right place at the right time" by facilitating smooth work transfers from the Front Door to the appropriate long-term services. - Risk Consultation: Provide expert advice and guidance on levels of need and risk thresholds to community partners and families. **Working Hours and Flexibility:** - Non-Case Holding: This is a purely consultative and facilitative role, focusing on throughput and community engagement rather than long-term case management. - Service Needs: You may be required to work outside of core business hours to meet the needs of the service and the families within the community. - Contract: Full-time agency cover within an "Outstanding" rated local authority. **Our Commitment:** - Strengths-Based Practice: We believe in empowering families through relationship-based social work and early intervention. - Integrated Care: We are aligning our services to ensure there is no "wrong door" for families seeking help in Manchester. **Qualifications and Experience:** To be successful in this role you must have; - Social Work England registration and a recognized Social Work qualification. - Risk Expertise: Deep knowledge of safeguarding thresholds and the ability to assess risk confidently in a non-statutory setting. - Relationship Building: Exceptional engagement skills with the ability to build kind, professional relationships with families and community stakeholders. - Compliance: Candidates must provide a 5-year reference history (with all gaps checked) and must pass the DfE Recommendation Compliance Questions to be considered. **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 \* **Note to Applicants:** This role is ideal for an experienced Social Worker who enjoys the "front end" of social care and partnership working but prefers a role without the requirements of long-term statutory case holding. **Reasonable Adjustments:** If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process, please highlight this at your earliest opportunity. **BH -** 198617 **GH -** 34778