Social Worker – Kingston/Richmond – Looked After Children

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.

• 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  

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

• Educated to a degree level with the relevant social work qualification
• Appropriate understanding of statutory legislation for example the Children Act
• Planning skills for assessing and reviewing children and young people’s needs and
• planning packages of care across a range of cases 

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