Liquid Personnel is recruiting Advanced Social Worker for its client's Disabled Children's Services Team at Devon.
This is an excellent opportunity for an established Social Worker with substantial post-qualification experience to take on a senior practice leadership role within a specialist children's service. Working closely with the Team Manager, you will provide professional leadership, supervision and guidance to colleagues while supporting the effective day-to-day operation of the team. You will work with children and families with complex needs, ensuring assessments, interventions and support plans are evidence-based, effective and focused on achieving positive outcomes. You will also play an important role in mentoring and developing colleagues, promoting good social work practice and constructively challenging areas where improvements are needed.
What will your responsibilities be?
- Provide professional leadership, guidance and support to Social Workers and colleagues within the team.
- Support the Team Manager with the day-to-day operation and effective delivery of the service.
- Undertake and oversee complex social work assessments involving disabled children and their families.
- Work closely with families to identify needs, strengths and appropriate support arrangements.
- Develop, implement and review effective care and support plans.
- Work collaboratively with health professionals, education services and other multi-agency partners.
- Provide professional supervision, coaching and mentoring to colleagues.
- Support the development of evidence-based and high-quality social work practice.
- Identify training and development needs and contribute to workforce improvement.
- Challenge poor practice constructively and promote continuous service improvement.
- Ensure children and families receive appropriate interventions and support.
- Promote safeguarding, equality, inclusion and positive outcomes for disabled children and young people.
Benefits:
- Accommodation/Commuter Allowance: £150 per week, subject to eligibility criteria
Qualifications & Experience:
To be successful in this role you must have,
- A recognised Social Work qualification.
- Current registration with Social Work England.
- Minimum of 3 years' post-qualification experience (PQE).
- Substantial experience working within Children's Social Care.
- Experience working with children and families with complex needs.
- Experience within a multi-agency social care environment.
- Proven experience mentoring, coaching and supporting professional colleagues.
- Evidence of substantial post-qualification training and professional development.
- Experience providing professional leadership and contributing to team development.
- Ability to identify and challenge areas of practice requiring improvement.
- Strong knowledge of safeguarding, assessment and social work 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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