Social Worker - Assessment Team - Birmingham

Job Title: Social Worker - Assessment Team
Location: Birmingham
Rate:  £33.30 per hour

Liquid Personnel is seeking a qualified social worker to join a dynamic Assessment Team based in Birmingham. 

What will your responsibilities be?
As a Referral and Assessment Social Worker, you will be responsible for conducting initial assessments to determine the needs and risks of children and families. You will handle Section 47 enquiries, which involve investigating cases where there is reasonable cause to suspect a child is suffering or likely to suffer significant harm. Additionally, you will manage Section 17 assessments to identify children in need and provide appropriate support services. Your role will also include participating in duty systems, where you respond to immediate concerns and referrals, ensuring timely and effective interventions. Through these responsibilities, you will work collaboratively with other professionals to safeguard and promote the welfare of children.

Benefits of the role:

• Duty week one in every 4 weeks


• Autonomy over diary


• Great payrate


• Supportive management

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 at least 2 years 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 Jordan Glass on 0161 543 6963.

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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