Social Worker - Safeguarding

Liquid Personnel

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Stoke-on-Trent Until 8/21/2026 First posted July 9, 2025 Last posted July 9, 2025
Job description

Liquid Personnel is currently recruiting for a social worker to join the Safeguarding team based in Stoke on Trent.

What will your responsibilities be?

In this role, you will work with children subject to Child Protection (CP) plans and involved in Care Proceedings. You will attend court hearings, prepare and present Court Reports, and participate in Child Protection (CP) meetings and Case Conferences. Additionally, you will operate within the framework of the Public Law Outline (PLO), ensuring timely interventions and legal compliance.

Benefits:

  • Hybrid working
  • Competitive rate of pay

Qualifications & Experience:

To be successful in this role you must have, 

  • Social Work England registration
  • Eligible to work in the UK
  • Hold a full UK driving licence
  • Post-qualified experience
  • Degree level or equivalent in Social Work

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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About this role

Summary

Work with children in safeguarding, legal compliance, court hearings, and child protection meetings.

Job title

Social Worker - Safeguarding

Experience level

post-qualified experience

Industry

social services

Location requirements

Stoke-on-Trent, hybrid work allowed

Salary

Competitive rate of pay

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

social work england registrationfull uk driving licencesocial work degree

Preferred skills

None specified

Specializations

child protectioncare proceedingscourt reportschild protection meetings
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Stoke-on-Trent, UK

Hybrid City