Supervising Social Worker - Fostering Team - Norbiton - Sanctuary Personal

Sanctuary Personnel Ltd; Greater London; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 51,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency is seeking a Supervising Social Worker for the Fostering Team. This role offers the opportunity to provide comprehensive fostering services, facilitate the placement of children, and contribute to developing training for foster carers. Ideal candidates must have a professional Social Work qualification and a strong understanding of relevant legislation. Located in Greater London, this full-time position comes with a salary of up to £50,083 per annum.

Qualifications

• Professional Social Work qualification or equivalent required.
• Understanding and knowledge of relevant legislation necessary.
• Registered or eligible for registration as a Social Worker.

Responsibilities

• Provide the full range of Fostering Services including recruitment and assessment.
• Undertake work to safely place and achieve permanency plans for children.
• Be involved in developing foster carer training and support groups.

Skills

Understanding of relevant legislation

Professional Social Work qualification

Registration eligibility

Knowledge of fostering services

Education

Social Work qualification or equivalent

Job description

Supervising Social Worker – Fostering Team

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Supervising Social Worker within the Fostering Team to work full time for Achieving for Children, based in Kingston.

The salary for this permanent Supervising Social Worker job is up to £50,083 per annum.

• As a Supervising Social Worker your role will be to work with colleagues to provide the full range of Fostering Services, including recruitment, assessment, training and supervision/support, duty services, as well as form C assessments and special guardianship assessment.
• You will undertake a range of work to safely place and work to achieve permanency plans for children.
• The fostering services continues to expand and there is a possibility that this role may become permanent in the future.
• Achieving for children work within the framework of signs of safety and we place a string emphasis on sighs of success, as well as peer group supervision sessions.
• There will be opportunities to be involved in the development of foster carer training and support groups.

Requirements of this Supervising Social Worker role:

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

Contact:
This Supervising Social Worker job 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 very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well 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.