Fostering Social Worker (23867)

Barnardos; West Midlands; Hybride; GBP 20 000 - 29 000; Temps partiel

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Flexible hybrid working

Professional development opportunities

Group Personal Pension

Cycle-to-work scheme

Employee assistance program

Résumé du poste

Barnardo's Midlands Fostering Families is seeking a committed Social Worker to support foster carers across the Midlands in a part-time, hybrid role. You will assess, supervise and develop foster carers, visiting families and collaborating with local authorities to keep children safe.

The role emphasizes flexible working, relationship-building, and safeguarding. You will travel to visits, meetings and service delivery, with professional development opportunities and a comprehensive benefits

Qualifications

• Qualified Social Worker with safeguarding skills and knowledge of fostering and looked-after children services.
• Experience in fostering, looked-after children services, or broader children’s social care is desirable.
• Strong relationship-building and communication abilities to work with carers, authorities and partner agencies.

Responsabilités

• Assess, supervise and develop foster carers to ensure high-quality care for children.
• Provide high-quality supervision and guidance to foster carers.
• Travel across the Midlands to visit foster families, attend meetings and support service delivery.

Connaissances

Relationship-building

Safeguarding

Fostering experience

Travel flexibility

Formation

Qualified Social Worker

Registered with Social Work England

Description du poste

Are you a passionate and dedicated Social Worker looking for a flexible role where you can make a lasting difference to the lives of children and young people? Join Barnardo's Midlands Fostering Families and become part of a supportive, child-centred team committed to helping children flourish in safe, stable and nurturing foster homes.

This part-time position will support foster families across the Midlands region, providing high-quality supervision, support and guidance to foster carers. Working within a hybrid model, you will have the flexibility to balance home and community-based working, with travel across the Midlands required to visit foster families, attend meetings and support service delivery.

As a Fostering Social Worker, you will play a key role in assessing, supervising and developing foster carers, helping them provide the best possible care for children and young people. You will build strong relationships with carers, children, local authorities and partner agencies, ensuring children's needs remain at the heart of all decision-making.

We are seeking a qualified Social Worker with excellent relationship-building skills, a strong understanding of safeguarding and a commitment to achieving positive outcomes for children. Experience in fostering, looked after children services or wider children's social care is desirable.

In return, Barnardo's offers flexible hybrid working, ongoing professional development opportunities, a comprehensive benefits package and the opportunity to be part of one of the UK's leading children's charities.

Join us and help transform children's lives through the power of fostering.

Pay & Reward Framework

We appreciate our colleagues' dedication and their commitment to delivering excellence in the vital work we do, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's. We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people.

We are committed to a rounded colleague experience with an approach to both pay and rewards that are fair, attractive, and progressive. This is in support of our strategic ambition to ensure Barnardo's is a place everyone can belong, grow and thrive.

The salary range advertised is in line with our pay principles, for consistency and fairness while recognising the skills and experience applicants bring to the role. Appointing salaries can be discussed further at appointment stage; we do seek to appoint within this range always exercising responsible stewardship.

Benefits

Workplace Offer: What it means for you

Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, in the community, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or depending on the role any combination of these. Please read through the advert carefully to understand the remits of hybrid working that will be specific to the role.

Barnardo's require colleagues to be UK residents, based in the UK and to complete their roles from within the UK (with the exception of colleagues providing Barnardo's services in Jersey and colleagues who live in the Republic of Ireland providing services in Northern Ireland)

• Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
• Annual Leave entitlement for full-time colleagues is 26 days per annum, increasing to 27 days per annum, after 3 years Barnardo's service, 29 days per annum, after 5 years Barnardo's service and 30 days per annum, after 7 years Barnardo's service. Those working less than full time are entitled to the same level of holiday pro rata
• The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our Buy Your Leave scheme
• A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
• Service related sick pay from day 1
• Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution
• Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
• Cycle2work scheme
• Interest free season ticket loans
• Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
• 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
• Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
• Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
• Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer

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