Social Worker - Children's Services Duty Team

Liquid Personnel is recruiting Social Worker for its client's Children's Services Duty Team at Rotherham.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Duty Social Worker to join a busy Children's Services Duty Team based in Rotherham. This role has become available to provide cover for a maternity-related absence within the team.

The successful candidate will work within a fast-paced duty service, managing referrals and assessments, safeguarding children, and ensuring cases are progressed within required timescales.

Duration: Initial 3-month assignment with a strong likelihood of extension until approximately March 2027, subject to service needs and maternity leave arrangements.
Start Date: ASAP, depending on notice arrangements relating to the current post holder.

What will your responsibilities be?

• Manage a caseload of approximately 20-22 children at any one time.
• Undertake assessments and interventions within statutory timescales.
• Progress cases efficiently, with the expectation that most cases are transferred or closed within approximately 45 days.
• Work collaboratively with partner agencies and internal teams to safeguard children and support positive outcomes.
• Maintain accurate and timely case recordings and reports.
• Participate fully in the team's duty rota and respond effectively to incoming work pressures.

• Fully office-based, Monday to Friday.

• Hybrid working arrangement:
• 3 days office-based
• 2 days working from home

• Free parking is available at Riverside during duty weeks.
• Alternative parking facilities are available nearby during non-duty weeks, although parking charges may apply.
• The service is seeking a high-performing practitioner with a proven track record of delivering quality outcomes for children and families

Qualifications & Experience:

To be successful in this role you must have, 

• Be a qualified Social Worker with current Social Work England registration.
• Have recent experience working within Children's Services Duty, Assessment, or Front Door teams.
• Demonstrate strong safeguarding knowledge and decision-making skills.
• Be able to manage a busy and demanding caseload effectively.
• Work confidently in a fast-paced environment and meet strict service timescales.
• Have excellent assessment, communication, and relationship-building 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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