Description
Our client is seeking highly autonomous and expert Social Workers to join their Children’s Services in Swindon. This role is designed for practitioners who can manage high-level risk and complex caseloads while providing mentorship and modeling best practices for the wider team.
What will your responsibilities be?
In this role, you will:
- Expert Practice: Demonstrate effective practice in complex situations, striking a critical balance between support and statutory control.
- Risk Management: Assess and manage higher levels of risk, liaising confidently with a wide range of senior professionals and partner agencies.
- High-Quality Reporting: Produce robust assessments and professional reports for case conferences and legal functions.
- Leadership & Mentoring: Take responsibility for the practice of others by mentoring Newly Qualified Social Workers (NQSWs) and supervising the work of junior staff.
- Capacity Building: Work with families, communities, and voluntary organizations to build capacity and contribute insights on service provision to commissioners.
- Caseload Management: Maintain a complex caseload with a high degree of professional independence and accountability.
Qualifications & Experience:
To be successful in this role, you must have:
- Social Work England registration and a recognized Social Work qualification.
- Permanent PQE: A minimum of 3 years’ post-qualified experience in a permanent setting is a non-negotiable requirement.
- Professional Curiosity: A high level of communication skills and the ability to exercise professional curiosity and "safe" professional boundaries.
- Resilience: Strong emotional resilience and the ability to remain accountable in a high-pressure safeguarding environment.
- Values-Led: A deep commitment to diversity, ethical practice, and core social work values.
- Driving: Must be a car driver with access to a vehicle for visits.
Working Hours and Hybrid Pattern:
- Duty Week: You must be able to attend the office 5 days during your duty week (which occurs every 5 weeks).
- Standard Weeks: When not on duty, the expectation is to be in the office 3 days per week.
- Contract: Ongoing agency placement with a focus on long-term stability.
Additional Benefits:
- Financial Support: A £100 weekly allowance for travel and accommodation is provided for workers residing more than 50 miles from Swindon (guaranteed until 10 May 2026).
- Professional Autonomy: This role offers the opportunity to work with significant independence while still having access to senior management support.
Non-Negotiable Candidate Experience:
- Strong Safeguarding Practice & Legal Knowledge.
- Highly effective Communication & Professional Curiosity.
- Reliability, Accountability & Good Case Recording.
- Strong levels of emotional Resilience & Safe Professional Boundaries.
- High commitment to Values, Diversity & Ethical Practice.
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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