Fostering Senior Practitioner

Kent County Council; Broadstairs; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

Kent County Council is seeking a part-time Fostering Senior Practitioner to join their team at St Peter's House in Broadstairs. This role focuses on supporting foster carers and improving outcomes for children in care, requiring a qualified Social Worker with a commitment to making a positive impact. The position offers competitive salary and benefits, while ensuring you'll work in a supportive and inclusive environment. If you're enthusiastic about enhancing the lives of children and fostering families, we invite you to apply before the closing date.

Qualifications

• Must be a qualified Social Worker registered with Social Work England.
• Experience in fostering or similar fields is preferred.
• Ability to lead with empathy and expertise.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert supervision and support to foster carers.
• Work alongside assessment teams to recruit and retain foster carers.
• Mentor and support less experienced colleagues and social work students.

Skills

Supervision

Training

Emotional support

Mentoring

Communication

Education

Qualified Social Worker

Job description

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Fostering Senior Practitioner

Role Responsibility

Make a difference in children's lives as a Senior Practitioner with Kent Fostering. Based at St Peter's House in Broadstairs, this part-time, permanent role offers a competitive salary, retention and car payments. You'll join a passionate, forward-thinking team in East Kent, focused on strengthening our foster carer community and improving outcomes for children in care- including those with disabilities.

In this key role, you'll provide expert supervision, training, and emotional support to foster carers and their families, helping them understand and respond to the complex needs of the children they care for. You'll also work alongside fostering assessment teams to recruit and retain carers. In addition, you will play a key role in mentoring and supporting less experienced colleagues and social work students-sharing your knowledge to help shape the next generation of practitioners.

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure application to the Disclosure and Barring service and registration as a qualified Social Worker with Social Work England.

If you're ready to lead with empathy, expertise, and a commitment to making a real impact, we'd love to hear from you.

Closing date: 18th June 2025

Interview date: 2nd July 2025

Contact Details

For further information on this role please contact Carla Wilkinson on 03000 411241

About the Company

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KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county's working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds, faiths and those with caring responsibilities, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

Please note - if you are interested, please apply soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.