Social Worker – Family Safeguarding
Liquid PersonnelCambridge, England, United Kingdom · Posted 4 months agoDescription
Liquid Personnel is seeking a skilled and resilient Social Worker to join the Family Safeguarding team at Fawcett House. This role is focused on managing a diverse caseload of children and families, providing robust intervention from Child in Need (CIN) through to active Care Proceedings.
What will your responsibilities be?
- Caseload Management: Hold and manage a varied caseload including Children in Need (CIN), Child Protection (CP), and Children in Care (CIC).
- Court Work: Manage cases within the Public Law Outline (PLO) and Section 31 Care Proceedings. This includes writing Court Reports, parenting assessments, and risk assessments.
- Court Attendance: Attend court hearings with the support of a Senior Practitioner or Team Manager.
- Statutory Visits: Conduct regular statutory visits to children in CIN, CP, and CIC settings to monitor welfare and progress.
- Meeting Leadership: Chair CIN and Core Group meetings, ensuring multi-agency coordination and clear action planning.
- Conferences: Attend Initial and Review Child Protection Conferences (ICPC/RCPC) and produce high-quality conference reports.
- Risk Management: Continually assess and manage risk, ensuring interventions are timely and evidence-based.
- Duty Rota: Contribute to the team duty rota, responding to immediate safeguarding needs and referrals.
Qualifications and Experience:
To be successful in this role you must have;
- Social Work England registration and a recognized Social Work qualification.
- Safeguarding Expertise: Significant experience in frontline safeguarding, specifically with CP and Court work.
- Assessment Skills: Proven ability to produce analytical parenting and risk assessments under tight deadlines.
- Compliance: A fully completed DfE sheet must be submitted with your application.
- Professionalism: Strong verbal and written communication skills to represent the local authority in professional and legal forums.
Working Hours and Hybrid Patter:
- Hybrid Working: A hybrid model is in place, with the expectation to work from the office at Fawcett House 2–3 days per week.
- Location: Fawcett House, Trumpington, Cambridge.
- Contract: Full-time hours (37 hours per week).
Our Commitments:
- Supportive Leadership: We provide direct support from Senior Practitioners and Managers for complex tasks such as court attendance.
- Family Safeguarding Model: We utilize a multidisciplinary approach to keep families together safely and improve outcomes for children.
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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