Senior Practitioner - MASH - Children's Social Care

Liquid Personnel is recruiting Senior Practitioner for its client's MASH - Children's Social Care team at Conwy.

We are seeking two experienced Social Workers to join its Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) within Children, Families and Safeguarding Services.

This is an excellent opportunity to play a key role in protecting vulnerable children and young people by assessing safeguarding concerns, analysing risks and working collaboratively with partner agencies to ensure children receive the right support and protection.

What will your responsibilities be?

• Respond to referrals involving children and families with care and support needs or who may be at risk of harm.
• Assess, analyse and manage safeguarding risks, making timely and proportionate decisions.
• Gather, share and evaluate information from multi-agency partners, including police, health and education.
• Undertake referral screenings, threshold decisions and progress cases to assessments or Section 47 enquiries where required.
• Address safeguarding concerns involving child exploitation, neglect, domestic abuse and child sexual abuse.
• Prepare analytical reports and contribute to strategy discussions and child protection meetings.
• Work directly with children, families and carers, ensuring the child's voice remains central to decision-making.
• Maintain accurate records and manage a high-volume workload within statutory timescales.
• Contribute to duty responsibilities, safeguarding planning and effective multi-agency working.

Benefits:

• Competitive pay rate of £43.28 per hour (Umbrella/Limited).
• Opportunity to gain valuable experience within a local authority MASH team.
• Work alongside a range of multi-agency safeguarding professionals.
• Opportunity to make a meaningful difference in protecting vulnerable children and families.

Working Arrangements: 37 hours per week, based at Coed Pella, Colwyn Bay, Conwy. Working patterns will be confirmed upon commencement. Candidates should be able to travel within the Conwy County Borough area when required.

Qualifications & Experience:

To be successful in this role you must have, 

• Qualified Social Worker with relevant professional experience.
• Registered with Social Care Wales.
• Experience working within children's social care and safeguarding services.
• Strong knowledge of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014, Children Act 1989 and relevant safeguarding legislation and procedures.
• Understanding of child protection, risk assessments and safeguarding thresholds.
• Knowledge or experience of child exploitation, neglect, domestic abuse and child sexual abuse.
• Excellent assessment, analytical and decision-making skills.
• Strong communication, report-writing and multi-agency working abilities.
• Ability to manage a demanding workload and work effectively in a fast-paced environment.

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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