Senior/Supervising Social Worker

The FCA; Swansea; Hybrid; GBP 39,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company car / car allowance

30 days annual leave (35 with service)

Company Pension Scheme

Free on-site parking

Life Assurance

Employee Discount Scheme

Medical Cash Plan

Job summary

Foster Care Associates (The FCA) is seeking a Senior/Supervising Social Worker for a full-time, permanent role across South Wales, with a modern hybrid working model and office base in Bridgend. The role focuses on promoting high-quality fostering services, supervising foster carers and ensuring compliance with FCA standards.

The position requires a Social Work qualification, professional registration, strong report writing and the ability to travel extensively.

Qualifications

• Social Work qualification and professional registration are required.
• High standard of report writing is essential.
• Willingness to travel, including nights away, with full UK driving licence.

Responsibilities

• Support and supervise foster parents to achieve outstanding outcomes.
• Monitor suitability and competence of foster parents.
• Ensure documentation and reports meet FCA standards and regulations.
• Attend meetings and contribute to care packages and planning.
• Participate in Out of Hours and daytime duty rotas as required.
• Undertake Form F assessments when needed.

Skills

Report writing

Driving licence

Travel flexibility

Education

Social Work qualification

Job description

Foster Care Associates (The FCA)

Role: Senior/Supervising Social Worker

Contract: Full Time, Permanent

Salary: Up to £43,626.47 per annum, dependent upon experience

Benefits: Company car or £2,000 car allowance, 30 days' annual leave, increasing to 35 days with length of service, plus bank holidays, Company Pension Scheme, free on-site parking, Life Assurance, Employee Discount Scheme and Medical Cash Plan

Location: Across South Wales - Swansea, Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire

Covering Area: Cymru South

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 Cymru South. This is a 'no base' contract, with our office based in Bridgend and we support the hybrid model of working with lots of flexibility to work from home.

Benefits of Joining Our Team:

We are committed to the wellbeing of our staff. The aim of our Staff Wellbeing Strategy is to increase all our employees' wellbeing, self-esteem and sense of belonging to a team and create new environments for them to spend productive time together. This includes walks and talks at the beach or in parks, wellbeing hour, park runs, mindfulness sessions, sea dipping, yoga sessions, raft racing and charity events to name a few. Our office environment is friendly and inviting with tea, coffee, breakfast and lunch items always available for our staff to contribute towards their wellbeing.

We offer a robust induction, a supportive management team, monthly reflective supervision with your Line Manager and regular learning and reflective opportunities with the Social Work team.

Additional Benefits Include:

• Refer a friend scheme with a monetary incentive
• Opportunity to complete Form F assessments for an additional payment
• An exceptional platform available for online and face-to-face training opportunities
• Out of Hours service, with an additional payment to social workers for undertaking evening and weekend Out of Hours duty service

About Us

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.

The business was born out of an enthusiasm for delivering fostering services to make a positive difference to the lives of looked-after children. Our first office was in the Worcestershire countryside, and that is still where our Head Office is today.

We have come a long way since those early days. Over the years, FCA has built a strong reputation for excellence, and now offers a wide range of services to children and families. But our purpose remains the same; 'to make a positive and lasting difference for children, families and communities', and it is underpinned by a series of values designed to help us assist children and young people to reach their full potential.

Today, we are one of the country's largest and most experienced independent fostering agencies. Just because we are large, does not mean we are impersonal. At FCA we are one big family, and we are committed to supporting every single child and foster parent, every single minute of the day.

Duties Will Include:

• 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 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 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

You Must Have:

• 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

For more information about this post please contact Ffion Williams - Fostering Service Manager on or .

No agencies please.

Foster Care Associates is an equal opportunities employer and has been awarded Disability Confident Employer status through Jobcentre Plus. The successful applicant will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.