Advanced Practitioner - Children's Pre-Birth Team

Liquid Personnel is recruiting experienced Advanced Practitioners to join its client’s Pre-Birth Team based in Middlesbrough. These are full-time agency roles offering a competitive rate of pay, providing an opportunity to work within a specialist service focused on safeguarding unborn babies and supporting families during pregnancy to achieve the best possible outcomes for children.

About the Role

As an Advanced Practitioner within the Pre-Birth Team, you will play a vital leadership role in safeguarding unborn children and supporting families through assessment, planning, and intervention during pregnancy. You will manage complex cases, provide expert practice guidance to colleagues, and work collaboratively with multi-agency partners to reduce risk and improve outcomes for children before birth.

What will your responsibilities be?

• Managing a complex caseload involving pre-birth assessments, safeguarding concerns, and child protection planning.
• Undertaking comprehensive assessments and developing robust plans to safeguard unborn babies and support families.
• Providing practice leadership, mentoring, and support to less experienced social workers.
• Working closely with midwives, health professionals, and partner agencies to assess risk and coordinate interventions.
• Participating in strategy discussions, child protection conferences, and legal planning meetings.
• Preparing high-quality assessments, reports, and court documentation where required.
• Maintaining accurate and up-to-date case records in line with statutory guidance and professional standards.

Benefits of the Role

• Competitive pay rate.
• Opportunity to work within a specialist Pre-Birth Service.
• Supportive and experienced management team.
• Collaborative multi-agency working environment.
• Excellent professional development and leadership opportunities.
• Flexible working arrangements where appropriate.

Qualifications and Experiences

To be successful in this role, you must have:

• Social Work England registration.
• Eligibility to work in the UK.
• A degree in Social Work or equivalent qualification.
• Significant post-qualified experience within Children's Social Care.
• Strong experience in safeguarding, child protection, and court work.
• Experience managing complex cases and supporting the development of other practitioners.
• Excellent assessment, communication, and analytical skills.

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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