This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and experienced social worker to join our team in playing an integral role in promoting the safety and wellbeing of children and their families across Sheffield.
The Sheffield Safeguarding Hub brings together a range of statutory and non-statutory resources involved in supporting and safeguarding the welfare of children in the City of Sheffield. We work together to provide the highest level of knowledge and analysis, ensuring that activity and intervention is timely, proportionate, and necessary.
As a Social Worker within the MASH Team, you will:
1. Work as a key member of a Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub with the primary function of undertaking screening and responding to all new referrals into children’s social care
2. First point of contact for children, young people and families in need or in need of safeguarding within the City of Sheffield
3. You will be a member of a team delivering high quality and effective services to children, young people, and their families/carers
4. You will promote and safeguard the welfare of children who live in the city complying with relevant legislation and regulation, maintaining the highest professional standards and ensure the consistent application of the threshold to step up from early help to children’s social care
5. Have strong communication, engagement, and analytical skills to allow them to safeguard children & young people and engage effectively with a wide range of agencies. You will have a sound knowledge of relevant legislation and experience of working in a front-line team with a thorough understanding of thresholds and universal services
6. You will ensure that you apply consistently high standards to ensure better outcomes for children and their families
7. You will need experience and skills in multi-agency partnership working across Children’s Services and be able to promote co-operation, working together with other organizations and service users as the means of shaping, developing and delivering services
As a Social Worker within the MASH Team, you are required to:
8. Hold a Social Work England registration
9. Be eligible to work in the UK
10. Hold a full UK license
11. Social Work Qualification, degree or equivalent
12. At least 2 years’ experience as a social worker within children’s services
Why Liquid Personnel?
13. ‘Faster Pay’ service getting you paid more quickly
14. Twice weekly payroll and an internal ‘hours’ team
15. Free DBS and compliance service
16. Access to exclusive roles that aren’t available from other agencies
17. Free access to Liquid’s exclusive social work training and CPD portal
18. Your own dedicated consultant with extensive social work knowledge
19. Access to a wide selection of social work positions across the UK
20. “Refer a Friend” bonus – get £500 for each social worker you refer who we successfully place*
21. “Find your own job” bonus – get £250 for bringing your own position to us *