Overview
Our social workers make a real difference. Every day they work with families to help children and young people who have had a difficult start in life to achieve their ambitions. You will be listening to young people and putting them at the heart of all that we do and working in partnership with families, equipping them with the skills they need to ensure young people live in happy, healthy and safe homes.
What will you be doing?
We have a strong culture of giving staff the time, freedom and support to explore new and better ways of doing things, so we’re looking for individuals keen to use their creativity to deliver high quality, child-centred practices, which ensure the best outcomes for children and families.
As a Fostering Social Worker, you’ll be:
- Providing professional supervision and developmental support, including advice and guidance to fostering families, connected carers or SGO carers, and working with other professionals where appropriate.
- Completing mainstream fostering assessments or connected care/SGO assessments, making appropriate recommendations, with a view to ensure outcome focused achievements for children, young people and families.
- Supporting fostering families to look after children and young people who have experienced trauma and 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.
This role resides in the Connected Care Fostering Team, however as part of the wider Fostering Service, you may be required to complete additional duties within this service where required, or to gain additional training, skills and knowledge.
