Social Worker – Short Breaks Service with Children with Disabilities

Liquid Personnel is currently recruiting for an experienced Children’s Social Worker to join Liverpool Council’s Short Breaks Service. This is an excellent opportunity for a skilled practitioner with experience supporting children with disabilities and their families. You will be responsible for managing complex cases, completing high-quality assessments, and working collaboratively with children, young people, families, and partner agencies to ensure children receive the right support and achieve positive outcomes.

As a Social Worker within the Short Breaks Service, you will manage a complex and varied caseload, completing Short Break Assessments and Carer Assessments while ensuring arrangements are regularly reviewed with robust risk analysis. You will maintain accurate Care Plans and Reviews, undertake direct work with children and families, and provide effective support within relevant statutory frameworks.

You will use professional judgement, evidence-based practice, critical reflection, and analysis to inform complex decision-making. You will work closely with multi-agency partners, attend relevant forums, and contribute to safeguarding children through effective assessment, planning, and intervention. You will also prepare high-quality reports, maintain accurate case records, and support the continuous development of practice within the team.

To be successful in this role you must have;

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

• 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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