Advanced Practitioner - Children with Disabilities

Liquid Personnel is currently recruiting for an experienced Advanced Practitioner to join the Children with Disabilities (CWD) Team at Halton Council.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Social Worker looking to step into a senior practice role within a dedicated Children with Disabilities service. You will support the team with complex casework, provide practice leadership, and help drive positive outcomes for children, young people, and their families.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage a complex caseload of children and young people with disabilities.
• Complete assessments, care planning, and reviews in accordance with statutory responsibilities.
• Provide guidance, support, and mentoring to Social Workers within the team.
• Work closely with families, health professionals, education services, and partner agencies.
• Contribute to safeguarding, child protection, and permanency planning where required.
• Promote best practice and support service development initiatives.
• Ensure accurate and timely case recording.

Requirements

• Social Work England registration.
• Qualified Social Worker status.
• Experience working within Children's Services, ideally within a Children with Disabilities Team.
• Strong knowledge of relevant legislation and safeguarding procedures.
• Experience managing complex cases and supporting colleagues with practice development.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.

Benefits

• £40.00 per hour UMB
• Competitive locum pay rate
• Hybrid working arrangements
• Supportive management team
• Weekly payroll
• Opportunity to work within a well-established CWD service

If you would like to be considered for this opportunity or discuss the role in more detail, please get in touch today.

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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