Senior Social Worker – Children in Care
Liquid PersonnelNewcastle, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom · Posted 4 months agoDescription
Liquid Personnel is seeking an experienced Senior Social Worker to join its client's Children in Care and Care Leavers Team within Children’s Social Care in Newcastle. This role offers the opportunity to work with looked after children and young people transitioning into independence, ensuring they receive consistent, high-quality support and planning.
The successful candidate will be based at Westgate Community College, working as part of a supportive team committed to achieving positive outcomes and stability for children in care and care leavers.
What will your responsibilities be?
- Hold and manage a caseload of Children in Care and Care Leavers cases.
- Complete statutory assessments, reviews, and pathway planning in line with legislation and local procedures.
- Lead care planning and permanency planning to ensure timely, child-centred outcomes.
- Support young people preparing for adulthood, promoting independence, education, employment, and wellbeing.
- Work collaboratively with carers, families, personal advisors, and multi-agency partners.
- Maintain accurate, timely, and high-quality case records and reports.
- Provide senior-level practice support and guidance within the team as required.
- Participate in supervision and contribute positively to team culture and service development.
Benefits:
- Competitive agency rate of £31.74 per hour.
- Specialist CIC and Care Leavers role.
- Supportive and well-established team environment.
- Opportunity to make a meaningful difference to young people’s long-term outcomes.
- Accessible Newcastle location with transport links.
Skills and Qualifications Required:
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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