Social Worker – Children’s Services (Adoption Recruitment & Assessment)
Liquid PersonnelBlackpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom · Posted 4 months agoDescription
The role is predominantly home-based, with a mandatory office-based day every Wednesday at County Hall, Preston. Applicants must have extensive local authority experience and a strong background in fostering and/or adoption recruitment.
What will your responsibilities be?
- Undertake recruitment, assessment, and approval of prospective foster carers and adopters.
- Complete high-quality assessments and reports in line with statutory requirements and local procedures.
- Travel across Lancashire, Blackpool, and Blackburn with Darwen to complete assessments and visits as required.
- Work collaboratively with adoption, fostering, and partner agencies to ensure timely and robust decision-making.
- Maintain accurate, timely case records using electronic case management systems.
- Contribute to panel reports and attend meetings as required.
- Ensure all practice meets safeguarding standards and promotes positive outcomes for children.
- Participate in supervision and reflective practice.
Benefits:
- Competitive agency rate of £36 per hour.
- Specialist adoption and fostering recruitment role.
- Predominantly home working arrangement.
- Structured office presence one day per week.
- Opportunity to work across a large and diverse local authority area.
Essential Requirements:
To be successful in this role you must have;
- Hold a degree in Social Work (or equivalent).
- Be registered with Social Work England.
- Have a minimum of three years’ experience in a permanent post within a local authority.
- Not have held a permanent or fixed-term position with a local authority within the last 12 weeks.
- Have essential experience in fostering and/or adoption recruitment and assessment.
- Be willing and able to travel across Lancashire, Blackpool, and Blackburn with Darwen.
- Be eligible to work in the UK.
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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