Senior Practitioner - Children’s Disability Team - Durham

Job Title:  Senior Practitioner - Children’s Disability Team - Durham
Location: Durham
Pay Rate: £31 per hour

About the Role:

Liquid Personnel is excited to announce an opportunity for a dedicated Social Worker to join a Children’s Disability Team in Durham. 

What will your responsibilities be?

In this role, you will conduct compliant assessments and section 47 enquiries to identify risk or need based on evidence. You will record and analyse information during social care assessments following policy and best practices, leading to clear plans for children. You will engage with children, carers, and families to understand their circumstances and form conclusions for long-term interventions. Additionally, you will assist in providing court statements, collaborate with colleagues to provide social care advice, and prioritize tasks based on urgency and risk. You will contribute to team functioning, develop cross-agency working, and own your professional development while providing guidance on local services for children, young people, and families.

Qualifications & Experience:

To be successful in this role, you must have Social Work England registration, be eligible to work in the UK, hold a qualification in Social Work at degree level and have at least 2 years of post-qualified experience in social work.

Why Liquid Personnel?

• New ‘Faster Pay’ service getting you paid more quickly
• Twice weekly payroll
• Free DBS and compliance service
• 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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