Lead Practitioner - Child Protection - Wolverhampton

Job Title: Lead Practitioner – Child Protection
Location: Wolverhampton
Rate: £33.30

Liquid Personnel is currently recruiting experienced Qualified Social Workers to join a busy team within a specialist Child Protection team in Wolverhampton.

What will your responsibilities be?
As the CP Lead Practitioner, you will be a qualified social worker with significant demonstrable knowledge and experience, acting as a recognized expert in the field of child protection. You will demonstrate excellent knowledge in issues such as domestic abuse, sexual abuse, neglect, and contextual safeguarding. You will provide expert advice and consultation to practitioners across the multi-agency partnership and support the allocated social worker to continue working effectively with families when significant harm has been identified. You will have responsibility for Section 47 enquiries, children on child protection plans, and children in pre-proceedings as part of an allocated caseload. You will encourage and facilitate critical thinking and challenge across the multi-agency group. You will demonstrate a robust and evidence-based understanding of the application of thresholds to support children and families at the appropriate level.

Benefits of the role:

• Flexible/Hybrid working opportunities


• Manageable caseload


• Excellent rate of pay


• Condensed working and part-time roles can be discussed

Qualifications and Experiences:
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 post-qualified experience.   

How to apply?
If this is a job for you, feel free to click apply below or if you want to learn more about it, please contact Chloe Donovan on 01612387493.

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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