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The National Fostering Group; Coleshill Heath; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 46,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27 days holiday

Bonus schemes

Pension scheme

Enhanced family leave

Employee Assistance Programme

Life Assurance

Health and wellbeing benefits

Discount options

Eco Car Scheme

Job summary

National Fostering Group invites applications for a Supervising Social Worker role with NFA Midlands. You will supervise and support foster carers, ensuring high-quality care for children across the West Midlands region.

The role focuses on safeguarding, collaboration with clinical teams, and delivering personalised support to families. Applicants should hold a BA/MA in Social Work, be registered with the relevant body, and have a full driving licence.

Qualifications

• BA/MA in Social Work required and must be registered social worker.
• Full driving licence.
• Experience with trauma and enhanced needs in children.
• Ability to supervise and support foster carers.

Responsibilities

• Supervise and advise foster carers to ensure child safety and wellbeing.
• Visit/carer and child interactions; provide ongoing support to families.
• Collaborate with clinical teams to access therapies and trauma-focused resources.
• Maintain safeguarding best practices and low caseloads for personalised support.

Skills

Social work

Driving licence

Trauma experience

Registration with governing body

Education

BA/MA in Social Work

Registered social worker

Job description

Salary: £36,000 - £46,000 dependent on experience (+£3,000 car allowance)

Location: Regionally based across West Midlands

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: 37.5 hours

Salary: £36,000 - £42,000 dependent on experience (+ £3,000 Car Allowance)

This is an amazing opportunity to join National Fostering Group as a Supervising Social Worker with NFA Midlands. We are an independent fostering agency part of National Fostering Group. Focusing on creating high quality foster homes for children and young people, NFA Midlands empowers foster carers to meet the specific needs of those in their care.

You can find out more about us here: https://www.nationalfosteringgroup.co.uk/national-fostering-agency/midlands/

About the Group

Its official, we have been rated as a Great Place to Work 2025!

88% of employees at National Fostering Group say it is a great place to work, compared to 54% of employees at a typical UK based company! Please read more about why our employees love working here: https://www.greatplacetowork.co.uk/certified-company/1574411

With over 20 years experience, National Fostering Group is the largest independent children’s fostering group in the UK with a community of over 2,500 foster carers.

As a Group, we work with Local Authorities to provide the highest quality of care for children and young people. All of our fostering agencies are officially recognised by Ofsted, Welsh and Scottish regulators as either 'Outstanding' or 'Good' which we are extremely proud of.

We also offer a 4 day working week - this means 80% of the hours for 100% pay! This will be given following a successful 6 month probationary period and is a performance based benefit.

The role

As a member of our brilliant team of social workers, you will understand the life-changing potential of a safe and supportive home life.

You will play a key role in helping vulnerable children and young people find a foster home that can transform their future. You will also supervise and advise foster carers, and make sure that both carers and children have the support they need to thrive.

You will visit homes and keep in touch with both carers and young people, becoming an essential point of contact for all – a safeguarding champion with everyone's best interests at heart. We keep caseloads lower to decrease risk and to offer more bespoke, person-centric focus. This means more time to work closely with both the young people and their carers to deliver the best possible outcomes.

You will collaborate with our specialist clinical teams to identify and make available the right kinds of support, from occupational therapy to art therapy, and clinicians with specialism in trauma and attachment theory.

As a key team member in one of our local fostering agencies, you will make sure that our children and young people are safe and secure, that they are well looked after, and that our high standards are consistently maintained.

Through your passion and commitment, you will inspire carers to grow in confidence and achieve their potential, with a real impact on the children they care for.

Who we are looking for

You will be passionate about building incredible lives for children, and helping foster carers be the best they can be. You will be confident and imaginative, with either a BA or MA degree in social work and an energetic and open-minded approach. You will also need to be registered with the appropriate body and hold a full driving licence.

Carers and children will be relying on you to create supportive, nurturing relationships, so you will need to show that you’ve had previous social work experience, with a record of working with young people who have a history of trauma and enhanced needs.

You will be excited by taking on real responsibility, and you will be ready and willing to benefit from all the support we offer to help you do your job. You will also be generous with your own skills and experience, helping our whole team to excel.

Benefits

• 27 days holiday, increasing with service up to 32 days + buy/sell scheme + bank holidays
• Bonus schemes
• Generous salary sacrifice pension scheme
• Enhanced family leave (subject to qualifying criteria)
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Life Assurance
• A wide range of health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits
• 100's of discount options
• Salary sacrifice Eco Car Scheme and Cycle Scheme
• Tech benefit

We are an Equal Opportunities Employer

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and we expect all employees to share this commitment and undertake appropriate checks.

About Disability Confident Disability Confident is a government scheme. It encourages employers to recruit and retain disabled people and those with long term health conditions.