Role Responsibility
Part time up to 25 hours
We are recruiting a part time Social Worker to join our existing Kinship Fostering Support Team as part of the services commitment to providing high quality support to friends and family member foster carers.
The Kinship Fostering Support Team provides support, supervision and training to our KCC Connected Persons Foster Carers and their families to enable them to provide the best possible healing centred care to the children and young people they care for.
As a Fostering Social Worker in the team, you will play a key role in supporting Kinship Foster Carers and the children they look after to thrive. With the support of regular supervision from the Team Manager, you will need to build relationships with fostering families and children, providing effective supervision, advice and guidance. You will work closely with the team around the child to facilitate effective service delivery and safeguard and promote the welfare of children.
We offer lower caseloads within this team to ensure that the complex support these families need is achievable. This means more time to deliver person-centred care and achieve the best possible outcomes.
This is a countywide team so we use a hybrid model of working and office base is negotiable.
Benefits and Rewards
As a member of staff you will have access to a competitive range of benefits, including:
1. Performance related pay increase
2. The option to enroll into the excellent Local Government Pension Scheme
3. A generous holiday entitlement + bank holidays
4. A range of leave options to help you manage your work / life balance
5. Flexible working work from home and office as required and we will provide you with the kit needed to work remotely
6. Sickness provision
7. Ability to buy annual leave
8. Training and career development opportunities
9. Access to a range of local and national discounts and cashback through our Kent Rewards website
This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure application to the Disclosure and Barring service and registration as a qualified Social Worker with Social Work England.
This role is subject to holding a Full UK Driving Licence The Council is committed to making reasonable adjustments so whilst this job requires the jobholder to drive your application will still be considered if you are unable to drive due to a disability.
This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.
Closing date: 27th of October 2025
Interview date: 3rd of November 2025