Advanced Practitioner – Children in Our Care

Liquid Personnel is currently recruiting for an experienced Advanced Practitioner for our client to join Children in Our Care Service based in Oldham.

This is an excellent opportunity for a highly skilled Children’s Social Worker looking to take the next step in their career within a supportive and well-structured service dedicated to improving outcomes for children and young people in care.

About The Role:

As an Advanced Practitioner, you will hold a small caseload of approximately 15 children and young people in Local Authority care, allowing you to focus on delivering high-quality interventions while providing practice leadership and support to colleagues across the team.

You will be responsible for reviewing progress, developing care plans, and ensuring children and young people receive the support they need to achieve positive outcomes and long-term stability.

Alongside your direct casework responsibilities, you will play a key role in supporting the Team Manager and wider team by promoting best practice, developing staff confidence, and contributing to service improvement.

What will your responsibilities be? 

• Managing a small caseload of Children in Our Care
• Developing and reviewing care plans to meet children’s individual needs
• Providing mentoring, support, and guidance to Social Workers, ASYEs, and Social Work Students
• Facilitating group reflective supervision sessions
• Leading learning circles and practice development activities
• Chairing care planning meetings where required
• Supporting high standards of social work practice and safeguarding
• Assisting Team Managers with operational and practice-related responsibilities
• Promoting positive outcomes for children and young people in care

Benefits:  

• Competitive rate of £40 per hour
• Hybrid working model with 3 days office-based and 2 days home working (subject to service needs)
• Manageable caseloads
• Supportive management structure
• Opportunity to develop leadership and mentoring skills
• Chance to make a lasting difference to children and young people in care

Qualifications and Experience: 

To be successful in this role you must have;  

• Social Work England registration
• Qualified Social Worker status
• Significant post-qualified experience within Children’s Services
• Experience working with Children in Care / Looked After Children
• Strong care planning and assessment skills
• Previous experience supporting or mentoring less experienced social workers desirable
• Excellent communication, leadership, and decision-making skills

If you’re an experienced Social Worker ready to combine frontline practice with leadership responsibilities, we’d love to hear from you.
 
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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