Senior Practitioner – Safeguarding

Liquid Personnel is recruiting an experienced and confident Senior Practitioner to join its client’s Safeguarding team, based in Hertfordshire.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Children's Social Worker to take on a leadership role, supporting the Team Manager in delivering high-quality safeguarding interventions for children and families where there are significant concerns regarding welfare, child protection and risk.

You will manage complex cases, provide practice guidance and support to Social Workers, mentor less experienced practitioners and ensure statutory safeguarding duties are met in line with legislation and Hertfordshire's practice standards.

What will your responsibilities be? 

• Manage a complex caseload involving children and families with significant safeguarding concerns.
• Undertake Child and Family Assessments and develop appropriate intervention plans.
• Complete risk assessments and prepare analytical reports for court proceedings and safeguarding meetings.
• Undertake Section 47 investigations where safeguarding concerns arise.
• Identify, assess and manage risks, ensuring timely and effective interventions.
• Ensure children's wishes, feelings and lived experiences remain central to decision-making.
• Provide mentoring, coaching and informal supervision to Social Workers.
• Support Newly Qualified Social Workers and less experienced practitioners.
• Provide practice leadership and guidance to colleagues.
• Lead by example, promoting high-quality social work practice.
• Promote strengths-based and relationship-based approaches to social work.

Benefits:  

• Competitive rate of £42 per hour.
• Hybrid working arrangement.
• Opportunity to take on a senior practice leadership role.
• Opportunity to support and develop other Social Work professionals.
• Meaningful work supporting vulnerable children and families.

Qualifications and Experience: 

To be successful in this role you must have;  

• Qualified and experienced Children's Social Worker.
• Strong experience in safeguarding and child protection.
• Experience managing complex caseloads.
• Experience undertaking assessments and Section 47 investigations.
• Strong risk assessment and analytical skills.
• Experience supporting, mentoring and developing other Social Workers.
• Knowledge of safeguarding legislation, statutory guidance and child protection procedures.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively under pressure and manage competing priorities. 

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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