Social Worker - Fostering

North East Lincolnshire Council; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Join North East Lincolnshire Council as a Social Worker in the Fostering Team, where you'll make a meaningful difference in children's lives. You'll be supported with compassionate leadership, and have the opportunity for real career progression while working in a dedicated and passionate environment focused on fostering excellence.

Benefits

Up to 40 days leave entitlement

Local government pension

Flexible working options

Qualifications

• Experience in fostering and working with children.
• Ability to engage with foster carers and provide support.
• Understanding of trauma impact on children.

Responsibilities

• Provide high quality social work practice to support children.
• Supervise and support foster carers.
• Engage in recruitment and training for foster carers.

Skills

Empathy

Communication

Teamwork

Problem Solving

Education

Qualified Social Worker

Job description

Social Worker - Fostering

Job description

Passionate about your practice? Be at the heart of our transformation journey.

Join a service that empowers you, supports you and values your skills.

Make the change, be the difference to our children, our future.

As part of our team, not only can you expect real progression opportunities for your career, you will be supported with compassionate, relational leadership to help you thrive and feel safe in your practice.

As a Social Worker in North East Lincolnshire Council’s Children’s Services, you will work as part of a team to provide high quality Social Work practice to make a lasting difference to the lives of children and families.

Social Work practice is highly valued and supported by skilled, knowledgeable and caring leaders and managers.

You will be joining a service that is built on pride and passion, who have high aspirations for children and families and who are committed to empowering them to thrive and be the best they can be.

If you are an enthusiastic, ambitious and passionate Social Worker who wants to make a lifelong difference to children’s lives and improve their outcomes, we want to hear from you.

Children's Fostering Social Work Team

We are developing and expanding our Fostering Social Work service to further build the skills, knowledge and expertise to support foster carers in delivering our vision for children to grow up happy, healthy, safe in their homes and communities with people who love them.

We are looking for social workers with fostering experience, we are also keen to hear from social workers who feel they may have transferable skills with a continued passion to learn and develop in this area of Social Care practice. You will have a good understanding of the impact of trauma affecting children and be able to support foster carers in caring for children, working within a supportive service.

With a supportive leadership structure, Fostering Social Workers support and supervise Foster Carers in addition to undertaking assessments that relate to Fostering and Kinship arrangements.

Alongside the statutory role, you will also be expected to engage with prospective new and existing foster carers such as supporting marketing and recruitment events, support groups, fostering celebration events, delivering and participating in training for foster carers and matching homes for children with the right fostering families to support stability.

Fostering changes lives and we want the most committed social workers to help us to continue to do just that

For more information, please refer to the role profile or email:

Jacqueline Mills - Practice Supervisor - [e-mail] find out more about us here!

Our Offer

Salary range: Up to £47,754 (depending on experience) PLUS Essential Car User Allowance.

Social Workers from out of the area will also have access to a relocation and travel from home scheme worth up to £8,000.

Please note: at this time, we are only accepting applications for qualified Social Workers as well as those looking to undertake their ASYE year.

If you are interested in learning about pathways in to Social Care check out Social worker | Explore careers | National Careers Servicefor more information.

In order to fully comply with Safer Recruitment guidelines, if you are successful with your application, you must meet the below criteria and be able to provide:

• At least one reference must be from your current or most recent employment, placement or work experience (if you are an agency worker at NELC, please provide your agency as a reference)

• You must provide a professional/company email address (we cannot accept personal email addresses)

• References must cover the last 3 years, any reasons for gaps should be detailed in your enhanced reference form. Your references will only be requested if you are offered and have accepted a position

What else can you expect?

• Real progression opportunities within Social Work practice – North East Lincolnshire Council operate through grades for Social Workers to Advanced Social Worker level

• Regular individual and reflective case supervision

• A relational approach in all aspects of practice

• Accessible and proactive management that creates the conditions for social workers to flourish and make a real difference to people’s lives

• A highly supportive team and working environment

Your Benefits

As part of your RewardNEL package, not only will you enjoy a competitive salary, up to 40 days leave entitlement* (including bank holidays) and enrolment into a local government pension, you will also have access to our exclusive RewardNEL platform.

This includes a variety of salary sacrifice schemes including Cycle2Work, Holiday Extra and Tusker (Car Lease), discounts at local coffee shops and bars, direct access to our inhouse wellbeing support, discounted car parking as well as instant access to new savings at major retailers, entertainment and hotels.

NELC staff can also benefit from flexible working and excellent training and development opportunities and a Fostering friendly scheme.

*Leave subject to length of service

About North East Lincolnshire Council

Your earnings go further in North East Lincolnshire, house prices are four times less than in London. Learn more about what our place has to offer at Life in North East Lincolnshire | NELC (nelincs.gov.uk) #FindYourSpace

Get to know us better Check out our Council Plan and read about all of the exciting new developments we have in the pipeline.

North East Lincolnshire Council is committed to being an inclusive employer, where equality and diversity is recognised, celebrated, and embodied throughout the organisation, becoming a workforce that represents all.

North East Lincolnshire Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults at risk. For any posts that will involve access to children, young people and adults at risk, the successful applicant will need to undertake an enhanced criminal record check where appropriate.

At North East Lincolnshire Council,

we know that together, we can be stronger.