Senior Practitioner - Fostering Team

Sanctuary Personnel; Ilford; Remote; GBP 45,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative recruitment agency is seeking a dedicated Senior Practitioner for a fully remote role within the Fostering Team. This exciting position involves recruiting and assessing foster carers, ensuring they provide a nurturing environment for children and young people. You will contribute to the development of the agency, participate in professional meetings, and maintain comprehensive case records. Join a forward-thinking organization that values diversity and inclusion, and make a significant impact on the lives of children and families. If you are passionate about fostering and have a strong social work background, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• Professional Social Work qualification or equivalent required.
• Good working knowledge of relevant legislation is essential.

Responsibilities

• Recruit and assess foster carers to ensure a safe environment for children.
• Contribute to foster carer reviews and maintain accurate Care Plans.
• Work in partnership with authorities to meet children's needs.

Skills

Social Work qualification

Understanding of relevant legislation

Registered or eligible for registration

Knowledge of fostering standards

Education

Professional Social Work qualification

Job description

Sanctuary Personnel - Senior Practitioner Position

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency, has a new permanent position available for a fully remote Senior Practitioner within the Fostering Team to work Full Time for Amber Fostering.

The salary for this permanent Senior Practitioner job is up to £45,000 per annum.

Responsibilities:

1. Recruit, assess, and monitor the continued suitability and competence of foster carers ensuring they provide a safe, healthy, nurturing, and learning environment for children/young people.
2. Ensure that carers fully understand the fostering task, outcomes to be achieved, and the agency's standards of practice expected in accordance with legislation, guidance, and agency policies and processes.
3. Ensure foster carers undertake the required training and development activity in line with agency policy to ensure they have the requisite knowledge, skills, and ability to undertake the fostering task to expected standards.
4. Contribute to foster carer reviews within required timescales, providing written evidence of competence and presenting review reports to the Fostering Panel as required.
5. Participate in recruitment and undertake assessment of applicants.
6. Attend meetings to support foster carers, children, and young people (all professional meetings relevant to any above parties).
7. Ensure each child has an accurate and up-to-date Care Plan on file and that carers have a copy available for reference.
8. Work in partnership with the relevant authority to ensure that the child and young person's needs, as identified in the Care Plan and placement agreement, are met.
9. Ensure that comprehensive case recording is completed and maintained within policy timeframes.
10. Complete administration and procedures in relation to significant incidents and Notifiable Events within agency timescales.
11. Facilitate social and consultation activities relating to the support of children, young people, and foster carers.
12. Contribute to and implement the agency development plan for service development, placement growth, and recruitment and retention of carers.
13. Work as part of a team and develop and maintain positive working relationships with all colleagues to support the development of the agency.

Requirements:

1. A professional Social Work qualification or equivalent.
2. Understanding of relevant legislation.
3. Registered or eligible for registration.
4. Have a good working knowledge of the relevant legislation.

Contact:

This Senior Practitioner role is advertised by Alex Moon; if you are interested in this position, please click above to apply now.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds, as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This has played a significant role in previously winning 'Best Candidate Care' at the Recruiter Awards and being a two-time finalist for the same award.

Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI).

With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.