Children’s Social Worker – Fostering Team
Wirral
Temporary, Full Time
£35 - £35 per hour
Ashberry Recruitment are always recruiting for agency Social Workers, Senior Social Workers, Practice and Team Managers along with Support Workers and staff for Social Work Teams and Social Work Services across the Northwest of England.
This particular requirement is for an Agency Social Worker to join our client Wirral MBC to work within their Fostering Team/Service!
What our client says:
Job summary description:
Fostering Experience is preferred with the opportunity to join our fostering team with well managed caseloads and regular supervision and management support.
To assess mainstream fostering applicants and to be part of our current recruitment campaign for mainstream foster carers. This includes the assessment of connected carers and the supervision of temporarily approved foster carers. Assessments completed include viability, form F, form C and special guardianship assessments. To provide clear and measured reports against the national minimum standards for fostering.
All casework transfers to other teams within the service following approval at fostering panel.
In this role, you will help to ensure that our children in Wirral receive the highest standards of care, providing support at the right time and where it is needed and carrying out a range of other duties including:
- providing supervisory visits to Foster Carers with children in placement in accordance with policies and procedures
- ensuring Foster Carers receive effective supervision which identifies training and areas of development
- undertaking additional support visits as often as is necessary
- support Foster Carers to attend professionals’ meetings involving our children in care
- to support Foster Carers maintaining excellent records as required
- to ensure that children’s placements are made and sustained which support our children to be healthy, happy and secure
- to work with the children in placement to ensure that they feel safe and their views are heard
- to work with Foster Carers to ensure their voice is heard and they work with the service delivery
- to complete viabilities and mainstream and connected carers fostering assessments
You will be provided with the right tools and working infrastructure which will allow you to work flexibly around your own needs as well as the needs of children and families enabling you to maximise efficiency and meet tight deadlines without overburdening process and bureaucracy.
Ashberry Recruitment would ask that applicants meet the following:
- DIPSW or equivalent qualification in Social Work and will be registered with Social Work England as a qualified Social Worker.
- Have a full driving licence and car available for work along with business insurance.
- Have an enhanced and in date DBS certificate.
- Have excellent verbal and written communication skills and be able to make good decisions based on the information available, ensuring effective relationships with other professionals.
- Can work within and contribute to a team.
- Possess knowledge of service needs for ethnic minority communities.
- Have confident IT skills and be able to navigate an electronic file system.
- Can write clear, concise, and robust reports.
- Have a flexible approach to work and working hours when the need arises.
- Contracts are full-time, but part time and flexible working hours may be considered. Contracts are normally offered over a 3-month period before rolling on for another 3 more months at a time.
Ashberry Recruitment have a team of specialist Social Work Consultants who are here to help you find your next contract and support you through your agency Social Work career.
Please contact Gavin our Senior Specialist Social Work Recruiter on 01282 525 510 should you like to discuss this vacancy or should you wish to discuss ANY other Social Work vacancies of any nature within the North of England and surrounding areas.
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