Social Worker - Looked After Children

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Join a forward-thinking Looked After Children Team in Buckinghamshire where you will work with children in care to help them achieve stability, permanence, and positive life chances. You will collaborate with carers, families, and professionals to deliver tailored support and interventions.

What will your responsibilities be?

Manage a caseload of children who are in the care of the local authority.
Develop, implement, and regularly review care plans tailored to each child’s needs.
Ensure children’s placements (foster care, residential care, kinship care) are safe, stable, and supportive.
Promote the child’s health, education, and emotional wellbeing, ensuring access to appropriate services.
Maintain regular contact with children through statutory visits and direct work.
Prepare and present reports for Looked After Child Reviews.
Work closely with birth families, carers, schools, health professionals, and other agencies.
Support children through transitions, including reunification with family, adoption, or leaving care.
Advocate for the child’s voice to be heard in all aspects of planning and decision-making.

Qualifications & Experience:

To be successful in this role you must have,

Social Work England registration
Eligible to work in the UK
Hold a full UK driving licence
Post-qualified experience
Degree level or equivalent in Social Work

Interested in finding out more? Contact our team for a confidential discussion about this exciting opportunity. We’d love to hear from you.

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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