Social Worker – Family Help & Front Door in Manchester

Liquid Personnel is recruiting a Children’s Social Worker to join its client’s Family Help & Front Door team, based in Manchester. This is a unique, non-case holding social work opportunity designed to bridge the gap between Family Help Services and the Front Door of Social Care. Rather than managing a traditional caseload, you will act as a community-facing consultant and facilitator, ensuring families receive early, effective intervention and that risk is identified accurately at the point of referral.

What will your responsibilities be?

• Community Outreach: Reach out into the community to support families by building on their existing strengths and facilitating access to necessary support services.
• Front Door Support: Work alongside First Response Advisors and multi-agency partners to process referrals, share information, and identify both risks and strengths.
• Partnership Coordination: Use high-level partnership skills to draw agencies together, showing partners how to build effective plans and enable successful interventions.
• Service Navigation: Ensure the 'right work reaches the right place at the right time' by facilitating smooth work transfers from the Front Door to the appropriate long-term services.
• Risk Consultation: Provide expert advice and guidance on levels of need and risk thresholds to community partners and families.

Working Hours and Flexibility:

• Non-Case Holding: This is a purely consultative and facilitative role, focusing on throughput and community engagement rather than long-term case management.
• Service Needs: You may be required to work outside of core business hours to meet the needs of the service and the families within the community.

Contract: Full-time agency cover within an 'Outstanding' rated local authority.

Our Commitment:

• Strengths-Based Practice: We believe in empowering families through relationship-based social work and early intervention.
• Integrated Care: We are aligning our services to ensure there is no 'wrong door' for families seeking help in Manchester.

Qualifications and Experience:

• To be successful in this role you must have; Social Work England registration and a recognized Social Work qualification.
• Risk Expertise: Deep knowledge of safeguarding thresholds and the ability to assess risk confidently in a non-statutory setting.
• Relationship Building: Exceptional engagement skills with the ability to build kind, professional relationships with families and community stakeholders.
• Compliance: Candidates must provide a 5-year reference history (with all gaps checked) and must pass the DfE Recommendation Compliance Questions to be considered.

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*

Note to Applicants: This role is ideal for an experienced Social Worker who enjoys the 'front end' of social care and partnership working but prefers a role without the requirements of long-term statutory case holding.

Reasonable Adjustments: If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process, please highlight this at your earliest opportunity.