Social Worker – Kingston/Richmond – Looked After Children

<p></p> <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&nbsp;involve working alongside other professionals, to ensure that a child&nbsp;and/or young person receives appropriate care, education and health&nbsp;services, and any other support needed to ensure their needs are&nbsp;appropriately met.</p> <p><strong>What’s in it for you as a Social Worker?</strong></p> <ul> <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 &nbsp;</li> </ul> <p><strong>Your main responsibilities as a Social Worker:</strong></p> <p>The Social Worker will support children living with&nbsp;relatives, friends of foster families and prospective adopters or children&nbsp;living in children’s homes and young people in semi-independent units.&nbsp;They will be responsible for ensuring their safety and supporting them&nbsp;towards independence by:&nbsp;</p> <ul> <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&nbsp;the children and young people</li> </ul> <p><strong>What we are looking for in a Social Worker:</strong></p> <ul> <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>&nbsp;</strong></li> </ul> <p>MR-170709</p> <p></p>