Job Title: Social Worker - Safeguarding Team
Location: Cambridgeshire
Pay Rate: up to £43,516 per annum (Dependent upon experience)
Job Description:
Liquid Personnel is seeking confident and dynamic Social Workers who are passionate about making a difference in their local community. If you are naturally curious, have an eye for detail, enjoy building strong relationships and love exploring new possibilities, we want to hear from you!
Our client currently has exciting vacancies in: Wisbech, Ely, Cambridge, Huntingdon.
What will your responsibilities be?
In this role, you will,
- Empower children, young people, and their families by promoting choice, control, and flexibility in managing their support needs.
- Ensure access to inclusive services that enable individuals to be active members of their community.
- Apply Person-Centred Planning approaches to understand and respect the views, wishes, and feelings of children, young people, and families.
- Build strong, trusting relationships with families and partner agencies to deliver high-quality, tailored support and achieve the best outcomes.
- Make a positive difference in the lives of children, young people, and their families through effective social work practice.
- Uphold high professional standards and demonstrate a commitment to continuous learning and development.
- Embrace the challenges of the Social Worker role with resilience and a solution-focused approach.
- Contribute to the ongoing reshaping of Children’s Services, supporting innovation and improvement in how we work.
- Ensure all interventions are child-centred, promoting safety, wellbeing, and inclusion.
Benefits:
- A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
- 6 days of protected time each year to support in maintaining your Continuous Professional Development
- A relocation package of up to £8,000 (eligibility applies)
- A pay progression scheme to enable Social Workers to accelerate through the pay grade as you gain experience and skills
- Salary up to £43516
- Scalable retention payments of up to £8,147 (Social Worker) and £9,118 (Senior Practitioner) over a 3 year period, starting after your first full year of employment for staff in our Assessment, Family Support & Safeguarding and Corporate Parenting Teams
- A Refer a Friend Scheme where if you refer another Social Worker to us who is subsequently employed by us as a result of that introduction, we’ll pay you an introduction fee of £350
- Access to our Cambridgeshire Academy for Reaching Excellence (CARE) who will support your development, enabling you to become the best practitioner
- Flexible working requests from day one of employment and so we are open to discussing different working patterns to help you bring your best self to work.
Qualifications & Experience:
We're looking for confident and dynamic individuals who enjoy making a difference in their local community, are curious and spot things that others might not see, enjoys building relationships and likes to explore possibilities.
- Social Work England registration
- Eligible to work in the UK
- Hold a full UK driving licence
- Post-qualified experience
- Degree level or equivalent in Social Work
- Have the ability to work from a variety of locations and travel countywide independently.
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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