Social Worker - Child Protection

Liquid Personnel is recruiting experienced Social Workers for its client’s Children’s Services teams based in North East Derbyshire and Bolsover District. We currently have two full-time agency vacancies within the Clay Cross Team and Bolsover Team. These are excellent opportunities for motivated and skilled practitioners who are passionate about improving outcomes for children, young people, and families through high-quality social work practice.

Working within supportive, established, and welcoming teams, you will play a key role in safeguarding children, supporting families, and delivering effective interventions that promote positive and sustainable outcomes.

Benefits

Excellent rate of pay

Supportive and experienced management team

Established and welcoming service

Flexible working arrangements

Microsoft Teams interviews

Ongoing professional development opportunities

Opportunity to make a meaningful impact on the lives of children and families

What will your responsibilities be?

As a Social Worker within Children’s Services, you will:

Undertake comprehensive assessments of need, risk, and protective factors.

Develop outcome-focused care and support plans in partnership with children, young people, families, and professionals.

Analyse complex information to support informed professional decision-making.

Maintain accurate, timely, and evidence-based case records.

Identify and respond appropriately to safeguarding concerns in line with legislation, policy, and local procedures.

Undertake child protection investigations and risk management activities where required.

Participate in strategy meetings, child protection conferences, core groups, and multi-agency forums.

Ensure the voice of the child remains central to all assessments, planning, and interventions.

Build effective professional relationships with children, young people, and families.

Provide support, challenge, advocacy, and interventions to improve outcomes.

Work collaboratively with education, health, police, housing, and voluntary sector partners.

Manage a caseload appropriate to experience and service requirements.

Monitor and review plans to ensure needs are met and outcomes are achieved.

Prepare high-quality reports for court proceedings, reviews, and professional meetings.

Attend legal planning meetings and court hearings where required.

Apply legislation, statutory guidance, and best practice principles to all areas of work.

Contribute to service improvement initiatives and promote excellent social work practice.

Qualifications and Experience

To be successful in this role, you must have:

Social Work England registration

Eligible to work in the UK

Degree in Social Work (BA, MA, DipSW, or equivalent)

Post-qualified experience within Children’s Social Care

Experience managing complex child and family caseloads

Strong safeguarding knowledge and risk assessment skills

Excellent assessment, analytical, communication, and report-writing skills

Ability to work effectively within multi-agency environments

Sound professional judgement and decision-making abilities

Knowledge Required

A strong understanding of relevant legislation, including:

Children Act 1989 and 2004

Care Act 2014

Mental Capacity Act 2005

Human Rights Act 1998

Working Together to Safeguard Children

Personal Attributes

Compassionate and empathetic approach

Professional integrity and accountability

Resilient and emotionally intelligent

Commitment to diversity, equality, and inclusion

Ability to work independently and collaboratively as part of a team

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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