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<p>Liquid Personnel is currently recruiting for a Social Worker to join a busy Looked After Children’s Team based in Kingston/Richmond.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong>What’s in it for you as a Social Worker?</strong></p>
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<li>Generous annual leave entitlements</li>
<li>Free or reduced parking rates</li>
<li>Cycle to work scheme</li>
<li>Annual season ticket loan</li>
<li>Childcare vouchers, and discounts on a range of local shops, restaurants, gyms and leisure centres and much more.</li>
<li>Excellent learning and development opportunities and schemes of support</li>
<li>A competitive and desirable retention package (to include a generous local government pension scheme)</li>
<li>A clear progression path when key qualification milestones are reached</li>
<li>Tools and models to support, including Signs of Safety</li>
<li>Reflective supervision from an experienced management team</li>
<li>Regular whole service away days </li>
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<p><strong>Your main responsibilities as a Social Worker:</strong></p>
<p>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: </p>
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<li>Undertaking regular statutory visits</li>
<li>Completing and updating assessments</li>
<li>Care Planning</li>
<li>Working as part of a professional network to meet the needs of the children and young people</li>
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<p><strong>What we are looking for in a Social Worker:</strong></p>
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<li>Educated to a degree level with the relevant social work qualification</li>
<li>Appropriate understanding of statutory legislation for example the Children Act</li>
<li>Planning skills for assessing and reviewing children and young people’s needs and</li>
<li>planning packages of care across a range of cases<strong> </strong></li>
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<p>MR-170709</p>
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