Social Worker – Referral & Assessment – East London

Liquid Personnel; Greater London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking an experienced Social Worker for the Referral & Assessment Team in East London. In this role, you will manage caseloads, conduct assessments, and ensure effective child protection interventions. The position offers a generous retention bonus, comprehensive training, and enhanced leave schemes. Successful candidates will hold a degree in Social Work and be registered with Social Work England, ensuring quality care in one of London's most diverse boroughs.

Benefits

£5,000 retention bonus

Excellent training including Practice Educator & NAAS

Local Government Pension Scheme

36 hour working week

Generous holiday allowance, up to 32 days plus bank holidays

Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave schemes

Qualifications

• Registered with Social Work England
• Social Work qualified with valid Social Work registration

Responsibilities

• Manage caseloads depending on experience and complexity of cases.
• Complete S47 Child Protection and participate in strategy meetings.
• Conduct S17 Child and Family Assessments.
• Use direct work tools with families for improvement.
• Arrange CIN meetings.

Skills

Child Protection investigations

Needs assessments

Care planning

Risk assessments

Trajectories planning

Education

Degree in Social Work

Completed ASYE

Job description

Liquid Personnel are currently looking for an experienced Social Worker for the Referral & Assessment Team to join our clients in East London.

Our client is one of the fastest growing parts of the country and the third most diverse London borough. Their communities are attracted by a mixture of excellent schools, relatively affordable housing, high-quality open space and rapid transport connections into the heart of the City.

Your benefits as a Social Worker :

• £5,000 retention bonus
• Excellent training including Practice Educator & NAAS
• Local Government Pension Scheme
• 36 hour working week
• OUTSTANDING Ofsted report
• Generous holiday allowance, up to 32 days plus bank holidays
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave schemes
• Access to comprehensive training and development programme

The role of a Social Worker :

• Manage caseloads dependent upon experience, grade of post and complexity of cases, utilising specialist knowledge for appropriate interventions, needs assessments, care planning and child protection investigations.
• Completing single and joint s47, including taking part in strategy meeting and supporting with Child Protection medicals.
• Completing S17 Child and Family Assessment including risk assessments, undertaking CIN plans, producing ICPC reports.
• Using direct work tools and resources in sessions with children and their families to help them identity what needs to change and how this could be achieved via a robust trajectory planning.
• Arranging CIN meetings.

Essential requirements of this Social Work role :

• You will hold a degree in Social Work
• Be registered with Social Work England
• Have completed your ASYE
• Social Work qualified, with valid Social Work England registration