Liquid Personnel is recruiting a Children’s Social Worker to join its client’s Children’s Permanence & Throughcare team, based in Edinburgh & Borders Region.
This role seeks an experienced Social Worker to support care‑experienced children across the Edinburgh and Borders area. You will focus on long‑term permanence, ensuring children unable to return home find stability through kinship, fostering, or adoption, guided by The Promise and centred on children’s rights, voices, and wellbeing.
Responsibilities
In this position, you will manage a specialized caseload of children and young people looked after in permanent placements. Your key responsibilities will include:
- Permanence Assessments: Completing high-quality Form E and Form F assessments to secure stable, lifelong homes.
- Legal Navigation: Navigating the Children’s Hearing System and providing expert evidence in Sheriff Court for Permanence Orders and Adoption.
- Life Story Work: Helping children understand their history and identity through creative, trauma‑informed direct work.
- Placement Support: Providing robust support to kinship carers and foster families to maintain placement stability and prevent breakdown.
Benefits
- Competitive Pay: An excellent rate of £36.00 per hour.
- Regional Reach: A unique opportunity to work across the vibrant landscape of the Edinburgh and Borders region.
- Trauma‑Informed Culture: Join a service that prioritizes relationship‑based practice and provides clinical supervision to help manage the emotional impact of the work.
- Hybrid Model: Flexible working options that allow you to manage your admin and reports from home while remaining present for the children in your care.
Qualifications and Experience
To be successful in this role you must have.
- Registration: Current registration with the SSSC (Scottish Social Services Council) is mandatory.
- Experience: Significant experience in a statutory Children and Families setting, with a strong grasp of permanence and adoption legislation in Scotland.
- Knowledge: Expert knowledge of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 and the Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007.
- Transport: A full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle are essential due to the geographical spread of the region.
Liquid Personnel is an equal opportunities employer. Liquid Personnel Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
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.
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