Liquid Personnel is currently recruiting for a Social Worker to join a busy Looked After Children's Team based in Kingston/Richmond.

This role will involve working alongside other professionals, to ensure that a child and/or young person receives appropriate care, education and health services, and any other support needed to ensure their needs are appropriately met.

What's in it for you as a Social Worker?

• Generous annual leave entitlements
• Free or reduced parking rates
• Cycle to work scheme
• Annual season ticket loan
• Childcare vouchers, and discounts on a range of local shops, restaurants, gyms and leisure centres and much more.
• Excellent learning and development opportunities and schemes of support
• A competitive and desirable retention package (to include a generous local government pension scheme)
• A clear progression path when key qualification milestones are reached
• Tools and models to support, including Signs of Safety
• Reflective supervision from an experienced management team
• Regular whole service away days

Your main responsibilities as a Social Worker:

The Social Worker will support children living with relatives, friends of foster families and prospective adopters or children living in children's homes and young people in semi-independent units. They will be responsible for ensuring their safety and supporting them towards independence by:

• Undertaking regular statutory visits
• Completing and updating assessments
• Care Planning
• Working as part of a professional network to meet the needs of the children and young people

What we are looking for in a Social Worker:

• Educated to a degree level with the relevant social work qualification
• Appropriate understanding of statutory legislation for example the Children Act
• Social Work England Registration

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