Children’s Social Worker | Fostering | Wigan | £35

Ashberry Recruitment; Wigan; On-site; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits for a passionate and experienced Supervising Social Worker to join a dedicated Kinship Fostering Support Team in Wigan. This full-time position offers a chance to make a significant impact by supporting kinship foster families, ensuring children receive the best care possible. You'll engage in various responsibilities, including providing supervision, assessing needs, and preparing essential reports for legal and review processes. Join this rewarding role to contribute to the development of fostering services and help safeguard children in care. Embrace the challenge and make a difference in the lives of children and families!

Qualifications

• Experience in providing support and supervision to foster carers.
• Ability to prepare high quality reports for legal and planning purposes.

Responsibilities

• Support and supervise kinship foster carers to ensure excellent care.
• Assess and provide training opportunities for foster carers.
• Prepare accurate reports for legal proceedings and reviews.

Skills

Supervision

Assessment

Report Writing

Training Development

Flexible Working

Education

Degree in Social Work

Relevant Social Work Qualification

Job description

Children’s Social Worker
Team: Fostering
Location: Wigan
Rate: £35

This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and experienced Supervising Social Worker to join Wigan’s Kinship Fostering Support Team. The post is full time for a 9 month period to cover maternity leave.

Brief overview of role and responsibilities:

1. Provide support and supervision to kinship foster carers to assist them in providing excellent care to children.
2. Work closely with staff within the service and social work teams to effectively support kinship foster families.
3. Assess and provide training/development opportunities to kinship foster carers.
4. Prepare high quality, accurate, and thorough reports for various purposes (e.g., presentation in legal proceedings, LADO consultations, planning meetings, children’s reviews, fostering and adoption panels).
5. Carry out an annual review of foster families.
6. Contribute to the development of the fostering service.
7. Be willing to work flexibly, including evening work, when required.
8. Be involved in the recruitment and assessment of foster carers and undertake Regulation 24 and viability assessments.
9. Be placed on the duty rota.
10. Ensure children in care are safeguarded and relevant procedures are followed if an allegation/concern is raised against a foster carer.
11. Ensure that children’s care and development needs are met within their homes.
12. Manage and appropriately prioritise tasks within an allocated workload.
13. Assess the need for resources to support foster care in meeting the needs of any children placed, including identifying risk to children and young people, assessing their need for protection, and determining the best method of intervention, ensuring that the Team Manager is consulted/advised throughout the case progression.