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Recruitment Partner at Action for Children
Role: Fostering Social Worker
Salary: Circa £38,000 per annum - Plus £700 on call allowance and Homeworkers allowance.
Contract/Hours: Fixed Term until June 2026. Part- time 22.5hrs per week, flexible on the days of the week worked.
Location: Hybrid – Horfield Bristol - You will be expected to travel around the Southwest including remote locations, Working from home on occasions.
Closing Date: Midnight on Thursday 17th of July 2025.
* Paid annual leave.
* Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities
* Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages
* Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cove
Vulnerable children in the UK need your help
Wherever you work in the Action for Children family, you'll be helping to change the lives of the most vulnerable children in the UK.
Last year, we helped more than 670,000 children and families across the UK. From direct work in communities to national campaigning, we are focused on making sure every child has a safe and happy childhood, and the foundations they need to thrive.
Why Action for Children?
Working here is more than a job. Everyone in the Action for Children family is passionate about protecting and supporting children. It's the sense of purpose that drives us every single day. Because we know that, when we work together, we can make a huge difference to bring lasting improvements to vulnerable children's lives.
A Bit about the Service:
Our three linked services, Fostering Southwest, Fostering Southwest Peninsula and Family Breaks Devon provide high quality foster families to vulnerable children and young people working closely with nearby Action for Children Services.
We offer the highest standard of care-providing carers with excellent training, supervision, and support to achieve the best outcomes for the young people we look after. We strive to provide a good quality of care, always ensuring the young people are the centre of our approach.
A bit about the role:
We are looking for an outstanding Fostering Social Worker who can support placements in the Southwest of England, You will have a small case load of 3-4 families.
How you'll help to create brighter futures.
* Providing professional supervision and developmental support, including advice and guidance to fostering families and working with other professionals where appropriate.
* Completing complex assessments of applicants to foster, making appropriate recommendations, to ensure the best outcome for children, young people, and families.
* Supporting fostering families to look after children and young people who have experienced trauma, ensuring they have the skills and knowledge to enable them to undertake this complex task within a family home environment, undertaking fostering reviews, providing high quality, analytical reports and presenting to Panel where appropriate, ensuring that children are receiving the best service possible.
* Being accountable for ensuring statutory compliance and meet regulatory body requirements regarding registration.
* Enthusiasm for learning and self-development, for yourself as a reflective practitioner, and in support of our carer training.
Let's talk about you.
* Registration with Social Work England is essential.
* A strong commitment to work within our therapeutic framework to support the needs of the young person.
* The capacity to plan and prioritise,
* To use electronic records system and IT effectively
* Experience of fostering is preferable.
* Access to transport to travel across the Southwest including some remote locations.
Working here is so much more than a job. Whether this is a career change for you or the next step in your journey, we'd love to hear from you.
Application Process
Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.
Interviews will take place week commencing the 28th Of July 2025 via Microsoft Teams.
Diversity, equality and inclusion
At Action for Children, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace.
We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups in society and for Action for Children.
Male staff are under-represented within our Children Service roles. We would like to encourage more male applicants for our Children Service roles.
If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with the job description, we'd love you to apply anyway. You might just be the perfect person for this role, or another role within the Action for Children family.
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