Social Worker – Family Help & Front Door

• Liquid Personnel is recruiting a Children’s Social Worker to join its client’s Family Help & Front Door team, based in Manchester .
• This is a unique, non-case holding social work opportunity designed to bridge the gap between Family Help Services and the Front Door of Social Care. Rather than managing a traditional caseload, you will act as a community-facing consultant and facilitator, ensuring families receive early, effective intervention and that risk is identified accurately at the point of referral.

What will your responsibilities be?

Community Outreach: Reach out into the community to support families by building on their existing strengths and facilitating access to necessary support services.

Front Door Support: Work alongside First Response Advisors and multi-agency partners to process referrals, share information, and identify both risks and strengths.

Partnership Coordination: Use high-level partnership skills to draw agencies together, showing partners how to build effective plans and enable successful interventions.

Service Navigation: Ensure the "right work reaches the right place at the right time" by facilitating smooth work transfers from the Front Door to the appropriate long-term services.

Risk Consultation: Provide expert advice and guidance on levels of need and risk thresholds to community partners and families.

Working Hours and Flexibility:

Non-Case Holding: This is a purely consultative and facilitative role, focusing on throughput and community engagement rather than long-term case management.

Service Needs: You may be required to work outside of core business hours to meet the needs of the service and the families within the community.

Contract: Full-time agency cover within an "Outstanding" rated local authority.

Our Commitment:

Strengths-Based Practice: We believe in empowering families through relationship-based social work and early intervention.

Integrated Care: We are aligning our services to ensure there is no "wrong door" for families seeking help in Manchester.

Qualifications and Experience:

To be successful in this role you must have;

Social Work England registration and a recognized Social Work qualification.

Risk Expertise: Deep knowledge of safeguarding thresholds and the ability to assess risk confidently in a non-statutory setting.

Relationship Building: Exceptional engagement skills with the ability to build kind, professional relationships with families and community stakeholders.

Compliance: Candidates must provide a 5-year reference history (with all gaps checked) and must pass the DfE Recommendation Compliance Questions to be considered.

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 *

Note to Applicants: This role is ideal for an experienced Social Worker who enjoys the "front end" of social care and partnership working but prefers a role without the requirements of long-term statutory case holding.

Reasonable Adjustments: If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process, please highlight this at your earliest opportunity.

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