Social Worker - Children's Safeguarding Team - Swansea in Gorseinon

Job Title: Social Worker - Children's Safeguarding Team - Swansea
Location: Swansea
Pay Rate: 38.43/per hour

Liquid Personnel is seeking an experienced children social worker to join their esteemed client. This exceptional opportunity is for a Social Worker to join the long-term Children's Safeguarding team. The ideal candidate will be a professional with a passion for working with children and families, and possess expertise in identifying and managing child protection concerns or addressing ongoing issues. This challenging and rewarding role involves working with complex cases, including high-end Children in Need (CIN) and child protection cases, as well as managing cases that may progress to care proceedings, requiring a solid understanding of the relevant processes.

Key Responsibilities

1. Developing and implementing measurable, timely interventions in Child Protection/CIN plans.
2. Identifying when further intervention is required to protect children within your caseload and taking appropriate action.
3. Championing practice improvement, actively participating in process, procedure, policy, and strategy development.
4. Managing and assessing risk, leveraging technical authority and deep expertise in social care practice.
5. Supporting and mentoring others while maintaining credibility and hands-on experience in complex cases.

Who We're Looking For

The ideal candidate will:

1. Be registered with Social Work Wales.
2. Possess significant experience in progressing Child Protection and CIN plans.
3. Demonstrate expertise in assessing and managing risk in complex cases.
4. Be organized, resilient, and adept at balancing multiple priorities while maintaining a focus on the best outcomes for children.
5. Ideally, be a driver with access to a car and eligible to reside and work in the UK.

This role offers the chance to make a real difference in the lives of children and families while working in a supportive and collaborative environment.

Why Liquid Personnel?

1. New 'Faster Pay' service getting you paid more quickly
2. Twice weekly payroll
3. Free DBS and compliance service
4. Access to exclusive roles that aren't available from other agencies
5. Free access to Liquid's exclusive social work training and CPD portal
6. Your own dedicated consultant with extensive social work knowledge
7. Access to a wide selection of social work positions across the UK
8. "Refer a Friend" bonus - get 500 for each social worker you refer who we successfully place
9. "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.