Overview
Job Title: Supervising Social Worker
Location: Regionally based across Lincoln
Contract Type: 12 month maternity cover / Full Time
Salary: £36,000 - £46,000 dependent on experience (+ £3,000 car allowance)
This role is an assignment with Jay Fostering, a fostering agency within the National Fostering Group. The focus is on creating high quality foster homes for children and young people, and supporting foster carers to meet each child’s needs.
Responsibilities
* Supervise and advise foster carers, ensuring carers and children have the support they need to thrive.
* Visit foster homes, maintain regular contact with carers and young people, and act as a safeguarding point of contact.
* Maintain lower caseloads to enable bespoke, person-centric support and better outcomes.
* Collaborate with specialist clinical teams to identify and provide appropriate support (e.g., occupational therapy, art therapy, trauma and attachment specialists).
* Ensure children and young people are safe, well cared for, and that high standards are consistently maintained.
* Inspire carers to grow in confidence and achieve their potential, with a positive impact on the children they care for.
Who we are looking for
* Passion for building lives for children and supporting foster carers to be their best.
* Confident and imaginative, with a BA or MA degree in social work.
* Registered with the appropriate body and hold a full driving licence.
* Experience as a social worker with young people who have trauma and enhanced needs.
* Willing to take on real responsibility and benefit from the support offered to perform the role well.
Benefits
* 27 days holiday, increasing with service up to 32 days, plus bank holidays and buy/sell scheme
* Bonus schemes
* Generous salary sacrifice pension scheme
* Enhanced family leave (subject to qualifying criteria)
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Life Assurance
Benefits continued: A market-leading benefit offering through the Flexible Benefits Platform, Vista, including a wide range of health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits, hundreds of discounts, salary sacrifice Eco Car and Cycle Schemes, and tech benefit.
Equal Opportunity and Safeguarding
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all employees to share this commitment and undertake appropriate checks. We are an Equal Opportunities Employer.
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