Fostering Social Worker
Fostering Social Worker
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Job Description
Circa Salary:38050 per annum plus 700 allowance for Out of Hours rota
Contract/Hours:Permanent Fulltime 37 hours per week.
Location:Hybrid Exeter Devon and homebased with travel across the South West.
Benefits:
- 29 days annual leave plus bank holidays and options to buy or sell leave
- Flexible maternity adoption and paternity packages
- Pension with up to 7%matched employer contribution with included life assurance cover
- Staff discounts and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15000 national retailers discounts
- We are a Real Living Wage accredited employer
We are one of the largest childrens charities in the UK and have been making a difference to the lives of the UKs vulnerable children for over 150 years.
Find out more about Action for Children here:Action for Childrenand on X LinkedIn Facebook or YouTube to get to know us better.
About the Service
Action for Children Fostering Southwest Peninsula and Family Breaks Devon seek to meet the needs of the most vulnerable children and young people in society by the provision of safe secure and successful foster homes including short breaks for children with additional needs.
We also offer the highest standard of care providing foster families with excellent training supervision and support to achieve the best outcomes for the young people we look after. We strive to provide a good quality of care to young people always ensuring they are at the centre of our approach. We offer a therapeutic framework. Carers and staff have access to skilled psychologists with specialist knowledge of the needs of lookedafter children.
About the role
We are looking for an outstanding Social Worker who can support carers from the Devon/Somerset borders to Cornwall so flexibility to travel across this cluster as and when needed is imperative for this role. You will also have the opportunity to assess applicants to foster.
Participation in a rota providing outofhours telephone support service for carers is an expectation of this role.
How youll create brighter futures
- Providing professional supervision and developmental support including advice and guidance to fostering families and working with other professionals where appropriate.
- Completing complex assessments of applicants to foster making appropriate recommendations to ensure the best outcome for children young people and families.
- Ensuring the voices of young people are heard and shape our services;
- Striving to ensure our services are inclusive and celebrate diversity;
- Supporting fostering families to look after children and young people who have experienced trauma ensuring they have the skills and knowledge to enable them to undertake this complex task within a family home environment undertaking fostering reviews providing high quality analytical reports and presenting to Panel where appropriate ensuring that children are receiving the best service possible.
- Being accountable for ensuring statutory compliance and meet regulatory body requirements regarding registration.
- Enthusiasm for learning and selfdevelopment for yourself as a reflective practitioner and in support of our carer training.
Lets talk about you
- A Social Work qualification is essential.
- Registration with Social Work England is essential.
- Preferable experience of assessing supervising and supporting foster carers; however if you are new to fostering but have transferable skills and experience from other social work roles we will be interested to hear from you also.
- A strong commitment to work within our therapeutic framework to support the needs of the young person.
- The capacity to plan and prioritise and to keep effective written records
- To use electronic records system and IT effectively
- Access to your own private transport to travel across the Southwest including some remote locations. Mileage is repayable through expenses.
- The role as with all social work will involve some flexible hours.
Good to know
We are unable to offer sponsorship for this role
For more information about the role please review our full job description by clickinghere.
If for any reason you need support with your application please contact Sarah Manderfield atquoting reference 11056and well be happy to give you any support you require.
Diversity equality and inclusion
At Action for Children were dedicated to building a diverse inclusive and authentic workplace. We actively encourage applications from Black Asian & Minority Ethnic and disabled candidates as they are underrepresented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups in society and for Action for Children.
Male staff are underrepresented within our Children Service roles. We would like to encourage more male applicants for our Children Service roles.
See below for further information about working with us:
Action for Children Employee Benefits
Action for Children Driven by Love
Make a Difference A Career in Residential Services
Employment Type
Full-Time
