Fostering & Kinship Social Worker

Leaders In Care Ltd; Maidenhead; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 44,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an experienced practitioner to join their Fostering & Kinship team. This role involves vital responsibilities such as recruitment, assessment, and support for fostering families, ensuring that vulnerable children receive the care they need. The organization is committed to continuous improvement in children's social care and offers a supportive environment for professional development. With competitive salaries and a culture that values its staff, this opportunity is perfect for those passionate about making a difference in children's lives. Join a team where your expertise can truly impact the community.

Qualifications

• Experience in a fostering team preferred, but exposure to fostering practices considered.
• Understanding of recruitment, assessment, and training in fostering.

Responsibilities

• Recruitment, assessment, training, and support for fostering families.
• Supervision of regulation arrangements and ensuring family support.

Skills

Fostering practices

Assessment skills

Training and supervision

Support for vulnerable children

Education

Social Work qualification

Job description

Get into Fostering | Good Ofsted | Flexible working encouraged | Supportive management

We are looking for an experienced practitioner to join AfC’s Fostering & Kinship team.

The team covers the usual duties you’d expect from a Fostering team, including recruitment, assessment, training and supervision/support, duty services, supervising regulation 24 arrangements, as well as Form F, Form C and Special Guardianship Assessment, and ensuring families are suitably supported to help cater to the needs of vulnerable or traumatised children in their care.

Ideally you will have worked in a fostering team previously; however, the council has a culture of support and development, so an understanding and exposure to fostering practices will be considered.

Windsor and Maidenhead Children’s Services is a part of Achieving for Children – an enterprise chosen for one of the DofE’s ‘Partners in Practice’ tasked with the continuous improvement of Children’s social care across the country. As you can imagine, becoming part of such an organisation comes with a certain level of investment back in the people who work there. It also comes with the added benefit of competitive salaries of up to £43,494.

If you would like to hear more about the benefits of working for such an organisation or hear the stories of those we have placed as social workers who now manage teams there, then get in touch on 07897 024978, or email your CV to [e-mail].

As this is a statutory role, you do require a social work qualification & registration to Social Work England.