Social Worker - Children in Care

Liquid Personnel is recruiting a Social Worker for its client's Children in Our Care Team in Gateshead.

Our client, Gateshead Council, is seeking a dedicated Social Worker to join their Children in Our Care Team. This is an excellent opportunity to become part of a supportive and committed team focused on achieving positive outcomes for children and young people in care. The team works closely with families, carers, and partner agencies to provide stability, security, and opportunities for children to thrive.

As a Social Worker within the Children in Our Care Team, you will play a vital role in supporting looked-after children and young people. Responsibilities will include care planning, permanency planning, and ensuring that children's voices remain central to all decision-making. The successful candidate will benefit from regular supervision, a collaborative team environment, and flexible working arrangements.

What will your responsibilities be?

• Deliver a high-quality statutory social work service to children in care, in line with current legislation and Gateshead Council policies and procedures.
• Build meaningful relationships with children and young people, ensuring their needs, wishes, and feelings inform all aspects of care planning.
• Undertake assessments, care planning, pathway planning, and statutory reviews to promote positive outcomes.
• Work closely with foster carers, residential providers, families, schools, health professionals, and partner agencies.
• Support children and young people to achieve permanence through reunification, long-term fostering, special guardianship, or adoption where appropriate.
• Maintain accurate, up-to-date case records, reports, and court documentation in line with professional standards.
• Participate in regular supervision and reflective practice with your line manager.
• Contribute positively to team development, sharing knowledge and supporting colleagues where needed.

Benefits:

• Supportive and experienced management team.
• Competitive rate of pay.
• Flexible working arrangements.
• Opportunity to make a lasting impact on the lives of children and young people.
• Strong commitment to learning, development, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications & Experience:

To be successful in this role you must have, 

• Social Work England registration.
• Eligibility to work in the UK.
• Full UK driving licence.
• Post-qualified social work experience.
• Degree level qualification (or equivalent) in Social Work.
• Experience working with children in care and looked-after children services.

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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