Senior Social Worker - Court Work

Role summary

Senior Social Worker - Court Work is a temporary role at Liquid Personnel in Chester-le-Street, England, United Kingdom (on-site). Posted 2026-10-27. Salary: GBP 33 per hour. Experience level: 5-10.

Job title

Senior Social Worker - Court Work

Company

Liquid Personnel

Location

Chester-le-Street, England, United Kingdom

Work arrangement

on-site

Employment type

temporary

Category

Software Engineering

Salary

GBP 33 per hour

Experience level

5-10

Date posted

2026-10-27

Job description

Liquid Personnel is recruiting a Children’s Senior Social Worker to join its client’s Court Work team, based in Chester-le-Street. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced practitioner with strong court work knowledge to provide support across the service, ensuring high standards of practice and positive outcomes for children and families. The successful candidate will primarily support with court proceedings, ensuring statutory timescales are met and that all work is completed to a high standard. In addition, you will undertake a variety of non case holding tasks as directed by the Team Manager, providing professional expertise and support to colleagues across the team.

What will your responsibilities be?

Provide specialist support and oversight on court cases, ensuring work is completed within required timescales.

Support social workers with court reports, statements, assessments, and care planning.

Ensure the quality of practice and documentation meets statutory and local authority standards.

Offer guidance, mentoring, and professional support to team members.

Undertake audits and quality assurance tasks as required.

Work collaboratively with managers and partner agencies to improve outcomes for children and families.

Complete additional non case holding duties as requested by the Team Manager.

Benefits:

Competitive hourly rate of £32.73 per hour.

Opportunity to focus on quality assurance and court work without holding a caseload.

Supportive management team and collaborative working environment.

Convenient location with good transport links.

Qualifications and Experience:

To be successful in this role you must have;

Social Work England registration.

Eligible to work in the UK.

Hold a full UK driving licence.

Significant post-qualified experience within Children's Services.

Extensive court work experience.

Degree level qualification in Social Work or equivalent.

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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