Senior/Supervising Social Worker

Foster Care Associates (fca); Sheffield; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company car or £2,000 car allowance

30 days annual leave, rising to 35

Life Assurance

Company Pension

Free on-site parking

Employee Discount Scheme

Medical Cash Plan

Job summary

Foster Care Associates in the UK is seeking a highly motivated Senior/Supervising Social Worker to join our inspirational team and advance the fostering services in the Yorkshire and Lincolnshire area.

You will support foster parents and their families to achieve outstanding outcomes for children and young people, supervise and monitor suitability, and ensure high standards of recording, safeguarding, and report writing.

Qualifications

• A Social Work qualification.
• Professional registration with Social Work England.
• 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 across the Yorkshire/Humberside/Lincs area.
• Confidence with transporting children and young people in sometimes challenging situations.
• Full UK driving licence.

Responsibilities

• Support foster parents and their families to achieve outstanding outcomes for all children and young people in foster care.
• Supervise, 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.
• 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.
• Undertake occasional initial home visits and Form F assessments.

Skills

Report writing

Travel extensively

Running safeguarding procedures

Driving licence

Education

Social Work qualification

Job description

• Support foster parents and their families to achieve outstanding outcomes for all children and young people in foster care
• Supervise, 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 e.g. respite, 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's records 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
• Undertake occasional initial home visits and Form F assessments
  This is an amazing opportunity to join Foster Care Associates. We are seeking a highly motivated and enthusiastic full-time Senior/Supervising Social Worker to join our inspirational and friendly team to develop and promote the fostering services in the Yorkshire and Lincolnshire area. Due to the nature of the role there is no set office base and therefore your place of work is deemed to be the child's home, community activity base or from home. There is an expectation that staff travel to the regional office in Sheffield on a quarterly basis and that foster parents and children are visited within their home., A Social Work qualification
• Professional registration with Social Work England
• 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 across the Yorkshire/Humberside/Lincs area
• Confidence with transporting children and young people in sometimes challenging situations
• Full UK driving licence
  Set up by a former foster parent and former social worker in 1994, Foster Care Associates (FCA) is an established fostering agency which forms part of the Polaris Community - one of the UK's largest communities of children's services providers.
• Basic Salary: Up to £38,616.93 per annum - dependent upon experience Hours: 35 hours per week Benefits: Company Car or £2,000 Car Allowance, 30 days' annual leave, rising to 35 days with length of service, plus bank holidays, Life Assurance, Company Pension, free on-site parking, Employee Discount Scheme and Medical Cash Plan