Fostering Social Worker – Tameside

Tameside Council want to achieve the best outcomes for their Cared For Children and Care Leavers. In order to achieve this they are looking for an enthusiastic and positive fostering social worker to join our fostering service.

A number of exciting changes and developments are taking place within our fostering service as we are committed to expanding the number of internal foster carers in line with the rise in the number of children who need to be cared for by the local authority.

You will need to be committed to providing the best possible outcomes for children and to ensure that our foster carers offer an excellent standard of care.

Tameside Council have an exciting opportunity to join their team as a Fostering Social Worker. The role will be working within a strong team and you will help to make a difference to the lives of cared for children. The service is also absolutely committed to the 7 Corporate Parenting principles and the successful candidate will continue to ensure these principles are embedded across our service delivery and that the voice of the child and young person is at the centre of all our planning processes.

As a Fostering Social Worker, you will work alongside children’s social workers to identify and support foster carers to provide responsive care to children and young people in need of a family.

The Key Responsibilities of the role are:

• Undertaking assessments of perspective foster carers and connected foster carers.
• Providing regular support and supervision to carers, in line with agency procedure.
• Participate in the recruitment of potential carers, and identify training needs of foster families and deliver training as required.
• Working with colleagues within children services to review and understand the needs of cared for children and to support with matching children to our carers. To work in partnership in responsive approaches to help identify any needs within the foster family and with all other members of the child’s network, including contribution to all relevant meetings and other task defined.
• To establish and maintain effective working relationships with partner agencies to achieve best outcomes for children and young people
• As a successful applicant, you will have:
• Experience of working with children and young people within the past 2 years including having skills/experience relative to fostering
• Experience of working with foster carers
• Experience of working to high quality standards on tight timescales requiring use of personal initiative, self-motivation, and a can-do attitude to your work
• CQSW/Dip. SW or equivalent
• Social Work England registered

Ashberry Recruitment would ask that applicants meet the following: