Supervising Social Worker (Hiring Immediately)

Liquid Personnel is recruiting a proactive and forward‑thinking Supervising Social Worker to join its client in Yorkshire.
This role offers a competitive salary, a car allowance, and a generous annual leave entitlement of 30 days per year. You will also receive individual and group clinical supervision from a qualified psychotherapist, ensuring ongoing professional development and support. The position is hybrid, allowing a combination of home and office-based working for added flexibility.
You will be joining the team of an independent and leading fostering organisation known for its unique therapeutic approach and its commitment to delivering high‑quality foster care for children of all ages and abilities.
If you possess strong interpersonal and communication skills and can build positive relationships with foster parents and children’s social workers, this organisation can offer you a rewarding permanent opportunity.
You will be part of a supportive team based in the Leeds office, working closely with the internal therapy team (who provide reflective supervision) and Education Advisors (EAGALs), who help strengthen the therapeutic parenting work undertaken by foster parents.

What will your responsibilities be?

• Offer direct support to families with a realistic caseload (10-12 families).
• Build positive relationships between the agency, the foster parent, and the child’s social worker.
• Help foster parents to sustain the child in placement and ensure outcomes for children are being met within the foster family.
• Work closely with key internal and external stakeholders to enable foster parents to be informed, accept, understand, and operate within the regulations and national minimum standards.

Qualifications & Experience:

To be successful in this role you must have,

• A formal Social Work qualification.
• Professional registration as a social worker with Social Work England.
• Experience of working in the fostering sector and/or children/young people in social care.
• The desire to be a team player who wants to achieve best possible outcomes for all children and foster carers.
• A valid driving license.
• The right to work in the UK.

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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