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Qualified Social Work – Children’s Services

Supervising Social Worker/ Senior Supervising Social Worker

SSW - Ref 002/25_1736402499
Somerset, England, Worcestershire, England
Permanent
£33000 - £40000 per annum
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Jan 09, 2025

Supervising Social Worker/Senior Supervising Social Worker (Children's Services)

Location: Worcester and other areas (Hybrid working available)

Salary: £33,000 - £40,000 p.a.

Contract: Permanent

Hours of Work: 37.5 hours per week

Closing Date: TBC

MAIN PURPOSE OF ROLE:

  • To recruit, support and develop the skills of our foster carers to ensure that we provide outstanding care and the best possible outcomes for our children and young people in our care.
  • To work in collaboration with all stakeholders and strive to ensure that the children and young people in our care reach their full potential.
  • To provide a comprehensive, flexible and high quality service to carers, children and young people in our care using legal, regulatory and statutory guidance to inform practice decisions and to safeguard and protect against harm.
  • To understand and contribute to the growth and continued development of the Fostering service.

    • KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

  • To recruit, assess, and monitor the skills of our foster carers to ensure that they provide a safe, healthy, nurturing and learning environment for our children and young people ensuring that they have up to date foster care agreement in place that meets regulatory requirements.
  • To work with carers to ensure that they fully understand their role, identify, and capture their development needs on a personal development plan (PDP) and provide appropriate organisational, professional and personal support to ensure that the carers have the right skills and competency to support our children and young people. Assist in the 'Skills to Foster' and induction training as appropriate.
  • To provide support to carers to enable them to evidence level of competence against required training standards within timescales, and following an assessment, sign off each standard.
  • Provide a safe, calm and well-ordered environment for all carers, and ensure that systems, process and methods of recording and well established, fit for purpose and efficient and of a high quality, addressing early signs of difficulties with carers.
  • Provide and record regular supervision to allocated foster carers in line with the agency's operational and quality standards and undertake such additional support visits/telephone contact as required taking into account the needs of all family members.
  • Develop and forge strong relationships with local authorities maximise placements and achieve the best outcomes for children.
  • Work in partnership with children, young people and foster carers and other professionals, local authorities and stakeholders, enabling full participation in assessment, planning, review and decision making including those issues relating to safeguarding and child protection.

    • QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Degree or equivalent social work qualification.
  • Post graduate experience preferable.
  • Membership of relevant professional body.
  • Proven track record of delivering successful outcomes for children.
  • Excellent knowledge of childcare legislation; specifically the Regulations and Standards for Fostering.
  • Enthusiasm for developing and improving the groups services to Good/Outstanding Ofsted rating.
  • Successful management of competing priorities.
  • Understanding responsibilities in protecting their own health, safety and wellbeing and that of their colleagues and others.

    • Additional Information:

  • DBS Check: Enhanced, with barred list checks for working with children.
  • The role may involve occasional evening and weekend work.
  • The role requires a full driving license (if applicable).

    • For more information on the job description or any job related queries please contact Zee at [email protected]

    Caritas Recruitment is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

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    SSW - Ref 002/25_1736402499
    Somerset, England, Worcestershire, England
    Permanent
    £33000 - £40000 per annum
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