Supervising Social Worker - Fostering

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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-based Ilford.

The salary for this permanent Supervising Social Worker job is up to £43,000 per annum

Main duties:

* Act as the lead professional in statutory cases that require a qualified social worker.

* Undertake the full range of social work tasks relating to the recruitment, assessment and approval of foster carers.

* Work collaboratively with colleagues in social work teams across Children's Services, partner agencies including the agency's legal department, Medical Advisor and fostering panel, as well as external agencies and courts involved in care planning, placement and review of children with connected persons or mainstream foster carers.

* In collaboration with colleagues in Children's services and external agencies, coordinate the statutory checks of potential foster carers, Special Guardians and their household members t ensure their approval in compliance with the Fostering Services Regulations and within court directed timescales.

* Undertale the full range of social work tasks involved in maintaining and reviewing the approval of foster carers, to ensure they remain fit to foster and their approval terms remain relevant.

* Provide effective, responsive support and reflective supervision to approved foster carers within statutory timescales.

* Promote foster carers continuous development through collaboratively completing and reviewing their Personal Development Plans, coordinating mandatory and relevant fostering training and learning opportunities.

* Monitor and ensure a consistent standard of care is provided to children placed with in-house carers which surpasses the National Minimum Standard of care.

* In collaboration with partner agencies, coordinate and provide post permanence support to Special Guardians including access to the Adoption Fund.

* Establish and develop collaborative working with allied health and social care practitioners from children, s and adult's services.

* Develop a good understanding of evidence-based practice and integrate model of best practice into day to day service delivery.

* Build professional credibility within the multi-professional partnership by achieving practice standards and meetings performance targets consistently; providing accredited practice teaching as required.

* Actively contribute to team working, supporting colleagues, covering for colleagues in their absence and taking part in team meetings and development events.

* Understand and integrate into practice the key policies of the Council in relation to social care with children and families, especially multi-disciplinary working, integration and whole family approaches.

* To promote equality, diversity, and inclusion, maintaining an awareness of the equality and diversity protocol/policy and working to create and maintain a safe, supportive and welcoming environment where all people are treated with dignity and their identity and culture are valued and respected.

Requirements of this Supervising Social Worker job:

* A social Work Qualification or equivalent.

* Understanding of relevant legislation.

* Continual professional development.

* Social Work England registered.

Contact:

This Supervising Social Worker 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.