The posting
Liquid Personnel is recruiting an experienced Front Door Children’s Social Worker for its client’s Front Door Children’s Social Work Team based in Powys. This is a full-time agency role offering £38.28 per hour (Umbrella), providing an excellent opportunity to join a fast-paced safeguarding service and make a real difference to children and families.
What's on Offer?
- Competitive pay rate of £38.28 per hour
- Supportive and experienced management team
- Opportunity to work within a well-established Front Door service
- Gain valuable experience in a dynamic safeguarding environment
- Immediate start available
- Flexible agency working arrangements
About the Role
Our client is seeking an experienced and highly motivated Social Worker to join the Front Door Children's Social Work Team in Powys. The successful candidate will play a key role in screening contacts and referrals, assessing risk and need, and making timely decisions to ensure children receive the right support and safeguarding interventions.
Previous Front Door or MASH experience is desirable; however, candidates with strong safeguarding, assessment, and decision-making experience within Children's Services are encouraged to apply.
What You Will Be Doing
- Screening and assessing contacts and referrals received by the Front Door Team
- Making informed threshold decisions and determining appropriate interventions
- Assessing risk and safeguarding concerns to ensure children are protected
- Completing high-quality and timely assessments in line with statutory guidance and local procedures
- Working collaboratively with partner agencies to gather information and coordinate effective support
- Providing professional advice and guidance regarding safeguarding concerns and thresholds
- Managing a complex caseload while maintaining accurate and up-to-date records
- Preparing clear, evidence-based reports and assessments
- Promoting positive outcomes for children and families through relationship-based practice and multi-agency working
What We Are Looking For
To be successful in this role, you will need:
- Social Care Wales registration
- Eligibility to work in the UK
- Degree in Social Work or equivalent recognised qualification
- Significant post-qualified experience within Children's Services
- Strong assessment, safeguarding, and risk-management skills
- Front Door/MASH experience (desirable but not essential)
- Excellent communication, analytical, and decision-making abilities
- Ability to work effectively within a fast-paced safeguarding team
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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