Permanence & Family-Finding Social Worker

Remedy Social Work; Tyseley; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Referral bonus - up to £250 per person

Double payrolls each week

Top tier supplier across London - joba

Job summary

Birmingham Children's Trust is seeking a Family Finding and Permanence Social Worker to secure timely, nurturing family-based fostering placements for children and young people. You will lead family-finding activities, profile children with strengths-based materials, and work with social workers and providers to promote suitable care arrangements promoting permanence.

The role focuses on trauma-informed practice, high-quality referrals and effective matching, with a strong emphasis on

Qualifications

• Applicants with placements and/or family finding experience are encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities

• Undertake comprehensive family-finding/placement finding activity for children requiring foster care, long-term fostering or other family-based permanence arrangements.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with children's social workers and placement services.
• Contribute to permanence planning by providing specialist advice regarding family-finding opportunities and barriers.
• Develop high-quality, strengths-based child profiles, pen pictures and promotional materials that accurately reflect the child's identity, needs, wishes and aspirations.
• Produce engaging family-finding resources including videos, digital profiles and other media to promote children requiring placements.
• Ensure all family-finding documentation is child-focused, trauma-informed and professionally presented.
• Support social workers to complete high-quality referrals and matching information.
• Build and maintain effective relationships with fostering services, independent fostering agencies and other placement providers.
• Promote children requiring placements through appropriate networks and marketing opportunities.
• Coordinate and facilitate family-finding events, matching events and community engagement activities.
• Develop innovative approaches to attract potential carers for children who may traditionally be more difficult to place, including older children, sibling groups and children with complex needs.
• Work closely with fostering teams to identify and assess potential matches.
• Assist with matching discussions and provide information to support decision-making.
• Support transition planning where a match has been identified.
• Monitor and track family-finding activity to ensure children experience minimal delay in achieving permanence.
• Maintain accurate, comprehensive and up-to-date records of all family-finding activity.
• Provide management information regarding progress, outcomes and barriers.
• Contribute to service audits, quality assurance processes and performance monitoring.
• Ensure practice complies with statutory guidance, local policies and safeguarding procedures.

Job description

Birmingham Children's Trust is seeking a Family Finding and Permanence Social Worker to secure timely, nurturing family-based fostering placements for children and young people. You will lead family-finding activities, profile children with strengths-based materials, and work with social workers and providers to promote suitable care arrangements promoting permanence.

The role focuses on trauma-informed practice, high-quality referrals and effective matching, with a strong emphasis on