Social Worker – Children in Care

Liquid Personnel is is seeking a dedicated and child-centered Social Worker to join the Children in Care team in Ipswich. This role is focused on securing permanency and providing high-quality support to children in care proceedings, as well as those in long-term placement.

What will your responsibilities be? 

• Case Management: Act as the allocated social worker for children in active care proceedings and those in long-term care or transitioning to permanent alternative care.
• Direct Work: Engage meaningfully with children to ascertain their lived experiences, wishes, and feelings. You will be responsible for undertaking life story work and producing high-quality life story books.
• Care Planning: Write, review, and amend children’s care plans, ensuring they are tailored to the child's specific identity and developmental needs.
• Reporting: Prepare professional reports for Children in Care (CiC) reviews and provide robust evidence/reports for Court as part of care proceedings.
• Partnership Working: Work collaboratively with carers, parents, and the wider family network, as well as professionals including IROs, Guardians, Health, and Education.
• Travel: Visit children in their placements, which often involves significant travel to rural locations. 

Qualifications and Experience: 

To be successful in this role you must have;  

• Case Management: Act as the allocated social worker for children in active care proceedings and those in long-term care or transitioning to permanent alternative care.
• Direct Work: Engage meaningfully with children to ascertain their lived experiences, wishes, and feelings. You will be responsible for undertaking life story work and producing high-quality life story books.
• Care Planning: Write, review, and amend children’s care plans, ensuring they are tailored to the child's specific identity and developmental needs.
• Reporting: Prepare professional reports for Children in Care (CiC) reviews and provide robust evidence/reports for Court as part of care proceedings.
• Partnership Working: Work collaboratively with carers, parents, and the wider family network, as well as professionals including IROs, Guardians, Health, and Education.
• Travel: Visit children in their placements, which often involves significant travel to rural locations.

Working Hours and Hybrid Pattern: 

• Hybrid Working: Flexible working is supported; however, the expectation is to work from the office 3 days per week.
• Office Base: Beacon House, White House Rd, Ipswich, IP1 5PB.
• Contract: Full-time hours (37 hours per week).

Our Commitment: 

• Child’s Voice: We prioritize the child’s wishes and feelings, ensuring their voice is the central thread in all care planning and court testimony.
• Professional Support: You will work alongside a multidisciplinary network of professionals committed to achieving timely permanency for every child. 

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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