Front Door Social Workers (x2)

• Location: Leicester

• Pay Rate: £35.00 per hour (Umbrella)

• Contract: Full-Time (Ongoing locum contract)

• Sector: Children's Social Care / Triage, Duty & Assessment (Front Door)

Are you an experienced Children's Social Worker who excels at making fast-paced, child-focused decisions at the initial point of contact?

We are currently recruiting two experienced Social Workers to join the busy, dynamic Front Door Team in Leicester. Earning a competitive £35.00 per hour, you will play a critical role in screening incoming contacts, assessing thresholds, and ensuring children and families receive the right level of support at the right time.

• Triage & Screening: Evaluate incoming referrals, safeguarding contacts, and information requests from multi-agency partners, applying clear statutory threshold criteria.

• Risk Assessment: Conduct initial risk screenings and information gathering to identify statutory Child in Need (Section 17), Child Protection (Section 47), or Early Help needs.

• Multi-Agency Liaison: Work closely with police, health, education, and early intervention partners to make safe, timely joint decisions.

• Signposting & Case Transfer: Provide professional guidance to partner agencies and ensure smooth, well-documented case handovers to assessment and locality teams.

• Professional Registration: Active registration with Social Work England (SWE).

• Core Competencies: Proven post-qualifying experience within a Front Door, MASH (Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub), Triage, or First Response environment.

• Decision-Making: Confident, decisive decision-maker capable of managing complex information quickly and accurately under statutory timeframes.

• Key Skills: Exceptional risk management, strong analytical report-writing, and effective multi-agency communication skills.

• Competitive Pay Rate: £35.00 per hour.

• Frontline Impact: Be the vital first line of response in protecting children and supporting families.

• Double Vacancy: Ideal opportunity to join alongside a colleague or work within a well-supported team cohort.

Randstad Care acts as an employment business when supplying temporary staff and as an employment agency when introducing candidates for permanent employment with a client. Randstad Care is an equal opportunities employer and decisions are made on merits alone.

Did you know that Randstad Care have been awarded a place on the National Clinical Staffing Framework for the NHS? This means we will be able to bring you more opportunities within nursing & midwifery and clinical staffing.

experience

Children services

skills

be able to manage challenging situations

qualifications

university

education

BA in social work