Overview
Job Category: Social Care Qualified
Job location: County Hall, High Street, Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 1UD
United Kingdom
Isle of Wight Council
Hours per week: 37
Start date: Immediate start
Salary: £31.50 per hour
Responsibilities
* We are looking for x2 social workers to join our Fostering Team.
* Providing support and advice to foster carers – mainstream and kinship carers (hybrid case work).
* They will keep in regular communication with the child’s SWs, the fostered child/ren, foster carers own children.
* Make regular visits to the foster carers’ homes – announced and unannounced.
* Support with home finding for the children needing to come into care – alongside the placement team and CSW.
* Assessing the services/support the foster carers will need to care for the fostered child.
* Providing regular supervision – this will include identifying training needs/opportunities.
* Ensuring the foster home meets all the development needs of the child/ren living with the carer.
* Assessing and raising concerns whether there are safeguarding and/or standards of care matters.
* Write foster carers annual reviews.
* Attend appropriate meetings – the fostered child’s Reviews Meetings, Support/Stability Meetings and any other as appropriate (PEPs).
* Attend Foster Panel as required.
* Cover day time duty rota.
* Ensure DBS, Health Assessments, Safer Caring Policy and other related household checks are in place and the Foster Carer Agreement is updated.
* Ensuring that the foster carer is working to and meeting all the National Minimum Fostering Standards (NMS) in their practice.
* There is a hybrid working arrangement in place where the Team have access to their office space 3 days a week with one day mandatory in the office which is currently on Wednesdays to attend team/service meetings.
Notes
Further details on role requirements and expected qualifications may be provided during the selection process.
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