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.

What’s in it for you as a Social Worker?

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

Your main responsibilities as a Social Worker:

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

What we are looking for in a Social Worker:

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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