Social Worker – Kingston/Richmond – Looked After Children

Job description

Liquid Personnel is currently recruiting for a Social Worker to join a busy Looked After Children’s Team based in Kingston/Richmond. This role will involve working alongside other professionals, to ensure that a child and/or young person receives appropriate care, education and health services, and any other support needed to ensure their needs are appropriately met. **What’s in it for you as a Social Worker?** - Generous annual leave entitlements - Free or reduced parking rates - Cycle to work scheme - Annual season ticket loan - Childcare vouchers, and discounts on a range of local shops, restaurants, gyms and leisure centres and much more. - Excellent learning and development opportunities and schemes of support - A competitive and desirable retention package (to include a generous local government pension scheme) - A clear progression path when key qualification milestones are reached - Tools and models to support, including Signs of Safety - Reflective supervision from an experienced management team - Regular whole service away days **Your main responsibilities as a Social Worker:** The Social Worker will support children living with relatives, friends of foster families and prospective adopters or children living in children’s homes and young people in semi-independent units. They will be responsible for ensuring their safety and supporting them towards independence by: - Undertaking regular statutory visits - Completing and updating assessments - Care Planning - Working as part of a professional network to meet the needs of the children and young people **What we are looking for in a Social Worker:** - Educated to a degree level with the relevant social work qualification - Appropriate understanding of statutory legislation for example the Children Act - Planning skills for assessing and reviewing children and young people’s needs and - planning packages of care across a range of cases MR-170709