Social Worker - Fostering Support and Supervision

Liquidpersonnel; Liverpool; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent rate of pay

Great Senior Management Support

Flexible/ Hybrid working

Free on site parking

MS Teams interviews

Job summary

Liquid Personnel is recruiting an Advanced Social Worker to join Liverpool City Council's Fostering Support and Supervision Team. You will provide ongoing support, supervision, and professional guidance to foster carers to ensure safe, stable and nurturing placements for children and young people in care.

You will participate in safeguarding activities, complete supervision visits, and contribute to high standards of fostering practice while promoting positive outcomes for children in care.

Qualifications

• Social Work England registration.
• Eligible to work in the UK.
• Hold a full UK license.
• Post-qualified experience.
• Degree level or equivalent in Social Work.

Responsibilities

• Provide ongoing support, supervision and professional guidance to foster carers to meet Fostering Regulations 2011 and National Minimum Fostering Standards.
• Complete regular supervision visits and annual foster carer reviews to maintain high-quality placements.
• Make child-centred decisions in complex cases to safeguard children and promote positive outcomes.

Education

Degree level or equivalent in Social Work

Job description

Liquid Personnel is currently recruiting for an Advanced Social Worker to join Liverpool City Council's Fostering Support and Supervision Team. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced fostering social worker to provide ongoing support, guidance, and supervision to foster carers, ensuring they are equipped to deliver safe, stable, and nurturing placements for children and young people. You will play a key role in maintaining high standards of fostering practice while promoting positive outcomes for children in care.

What will your responsibilities be?

As an Advanced Social Worker, you will provide ongoing support, supervision, and professional guidance to foster carers, ensuring they meet the requirements of the Fostering Regulations 2011 and National Minimum Fostering Standards. You will complete regular supervision visits, identify training and development needs, and carry out annual foster carer reviews to maintain high-quality fostering placements.

You will make informed, child-centred decisions within complex cases, ensuring children and young people remain safe and achieve the best possible outcomes in their foster placements. You will manage your workload effectively, producing high-quality work within agreed timescales while working collaboratively with colleagues and partner agencies to safeguard children and support foster families.

Benefits:

• Excellent rate of pay
• Great Senior Management Support
• Flexible/ Hybrid working
• Free on site parking
• MS Teams interviews

Qualifications and Experience:

• Social Work England registration
• Eligible to work in the UK.
• Hold a full UK license.
• Post-qualified experience
• Degree level or equivalent in Social Work

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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