Social Worker – Children Looked After

Liquid Personnel are in partnership with Knowsley Council to recruit a Social Worker within their Children Looked After Team.

Are you a Qualified Social Worker? Do you want to make a difference to the lives of children and families through effective social care? Do you want to be part of a team that values your knowledge, experience, and who you are as a person?

If so, Knowsley Children's Services could be the place for you. Following their recent Ofsted inspection, Knowsley's Children's Social Care Services (CSC) department is on an improvement journey and would love you to be part of it.

Benefits of Working for Knowsley

•    Salaries will be increased and backdated from 1st April to reflect a 3.3% pay increase.
•    Full-time and part-time vacancies available, with up to 36 hours per week.
•    Candidates who are one year post-qualified will be considered. Salary to be discussed.
•    A friendly and supportive team that genuinely cares about its employees.
•    A smaller local authority with easy commuting access from across the North West.
•    Free parking.
•    Quick interview process.
•    Flexible working, manageable caseloads, and a wide range of employee benefits.

About the Role

As a Children Looked After Social Worker, you will be picking up cases from the Initial Hearing stage and therefore will be undertaking court work without Child Protection or Child in Need responsibilities.

You will be expected to manage a maximum of 3-4 sets of proceedings at any one time. Within this team, you will be responsible for offering permanency planning for children.

Additional Benefits

• Knowsley is a Disability Confident Employer, offering inclusive and accessible recruitment, guaranteed interviews for eligible disabled applicants, reasonable adjustments, and ongoing support for employees.
• Flexible and Hybrid Working Arrangements with family-friendly initiatives. Flexible hours, home working, compressed hours, and part-time options are available where appropriate.
• Generous Holiday Entitlement, starting at 28 days' annual leave, with the option to purchase up to 10 additional days.
• Manageable Workloads, with directors, heads of service, and team managers working together to ensure staff are supported.
• Differentiated Sickness Absence arrangements for individuals living with a disability.
• Menopause Policy supporting women in the workplace.
• Local Government Pension Scheme.
• Newly Developed Bespoke Four-Week Induction Programme.
• High-Quality IT Equipment to support agile working.
• Learning and Career Development opportunities through a broad range of blended learning programmes.
• Supportive Practice Improvement Team to help embed learning from audits and reviews.
• Employee Support Networks, including Black & Minority Workers' Group, LGBT+ Forum, and Neurodiverse Staff Support Group.
• Wellbeing Support Programmes for employees.
• Apprenticeship Opportunities.
• Secondment Opportunities.
• MyTime, providing monthly one-to-one sessions dedicated to career development.
• Reflective Supervision every four weeks.
• Access to Signs of Safety Group Supervision.
• Newly Developed Progression Pathway.
• Learning at Work Week, celebrating and recognising excellent practice across the council.
• Visible and Accessible Leadership, including monthly Principal Social Worker (PSW) drop-in sessions.
• Themed Practice Learning Week, offering a range of bite-sized learning opportunities.
• Cycle to Work Scheme, providing significant savings on bicycles and safety equipment.
• Bank Holiday Entitlement.
• Free Eye Tests and contributions towards the cost of glasses through the corporate eye care scheme.
• Childcare Vouchers.
• Free Refreshments, including tea, coffee, and milk.
• Discounted Gym Membership.
• Credit Union Membership.
• VIVUP Discounts & Savings Scheme, offering a range of employee discounts and benefits.

• Hold Social Work England registration.
• Be eligible to work in the UK.
• Hold a full UK driving licence.
• Hold a Social Work qualification, degree, or equivalent.

• 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.

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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