Senior Social Worker - Fostering & Family Support Lead

Foster Care Associates Limited; Mountain Ash; Sur place; GBP 30 000 - 42 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Foster Care Associates Limited in Wales is seeking an experienced Social Worker to support looked-after children and foster families. You will undertake home visits, supervise foster carers, and contribute to safeguarding and care planning.

You must have a Social Work qualification, professional registration, strong report writing, knowledge of safeguarding legislation, and a willingness to travel, including nights away; a full UK driving licence is essential. This is a full-time, on-site role.

Qualifications

• A Social Work qualification
• Professional registration with Social Care Wales or equivalent
• Proven ability to produce a high standard of report writing
• A comprehensive working knowledge of relevant legislation and child safeguarding procedures
• The willingness and ability to travel extensively, including occasional nights away
• Confidence with transporting children and young people in sometimes challenging situations
• Full UK driving licence

Responsabilités

• Support foster parents and their families to achieve outstanding outcomes for all children and young people in foster care
• Support and monitor the continued suitability and competence of foster parents, ensuring they provide a safe, healthy, nurturing and learning environment for children and young people
• Ensure that foster parents fully understand the fostering task, competencies to be achieved and the standards expected, including complaints and representation procedures as detailed in the FCA policies and procedures
• Provide and record regular supervision to allocated foster parents in line with FCA’s Operational Standards
• Work in partnership in a team parenting approach to help identify any needs within the foster family, activities, therapy, holidays, with all members of the child’s network, including contributing to all relevant meetings and any other tasks defined
• Ensure each child and foster parent are fully compliant in respect of all key documentation
• Attend meetings and/or provide reports for Commissioning Teams to address individual packages of care
• Promote participation of children and young people in the development of the agency and in accessing resources and opportunities in their local community
• Participate in an Out of Hours support service on a rota basis
• Participate in the daytime duty system on a rota basis, supporting the Referrals Team
• Undertake occasional initial home visits and Form F assessments

Connaissances

Social Work qualification

Professional registration with Social 

Report writing

Legislation and safeguarding

Travel willingness

Transporting children

Full UK driving licence

Description du poste

Foster Care Associates Limited in Wales is seeking an experienced Social Worker to support looked-after children and foster families. You will undertake home visits, supervise foster carers, and contribute to safeguarding and care planning.

You must have a Social Work qualification, professional registration, strong report writing, knowledge of safeguarding legislation, and a willingness to travel, including nights away; a full UK driving licence is essential. This is a full-time, on-site role.