Social Worker – Family Help & Front Door

Job title: Social Worker – Family Help & Front Door

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.