About the Role
and our Ideal Candidate
Join Children Social Care as a Supervising Social Worker on a starting salary of £43, and receive our Welcome Bonus of £ paid in your first month's salary and a Retention Bonus of:
1. £ paid for your first completed year in service
2. £ paid for your second completed year in service
3. £ paid for your third completed year in service and every year thereafter.
In addition
4. Car permit at Gibson Car Park
5. Comprehensive training opportunities
6. Opportunities for career progression
We've got an exciting opportunity for a Supervising Social Worker as part of our Fostering Service within Children’s Social Care. Our mission is to empower children to live independently as possible and provide the necessary support in safeguarding their well-being. We need your expertise to make it happen. In this role, your responsibility will include:
7. Provide support and supervision to foster carers and the importance of cultural competency
8. Ensure foster carers understand and adhere to policies and standards
9. Work closely with the Placements team, children's social workers and other relevant professionals to match children with fostering households.
10. Complete annual review reports on fostering households.
11. Present reports to the Fostering Panel
12. Managing allegations and complaints against carers
13. Providing all foster carers with a required training and development programme, which is linked to the Training, support and development standards (TSDS).
14. Undertake such other duties commensurate with the grade and nature of the job.
We aim to deliver a Fostering Services that recruits a range of foster carers who can meet the diverse needs of children who are looked after. This role will challenge you in a dynamic and diverse environment whilst helping you to expand your knowledge and skill set in the practice of children social care. Our teams are renowned for its ability to craft outstanding care plans that prioritise the needs and voices of service users, integrating input from various professionals, families/carers, and external agencies to ensure the best outcomes are achieved.
Are you ready to take the next step? We are here to support your growth as you begin your career at Suttons Children's Social Care. Apply now and join us.
This position offers an excellent opportunity for individuals with outstanding communication skills and a compassionate manner capable of effectively managing high levels of emotional distress. We encourage applications from candidates with experience in working within fostering and children’s service and those passionate about delivering person-centred care. You'll join a welcoming, supportive, and energetic team dedicated to providing first class supervision and ongoing professional development opportunities.
In addition, we would expect the following from all suitable candidates:
15. To be registered with Social Work England and hold a degree in Social Care or similar.
16. Have experience of working in a multidisciplinary team setting.
17. Have sound knowledge and ability to deliver social work support to service users and their families.
18. Ability to communicate complex social issues clearly to both patients and professionals.
19. Ability to plan and coordinate social care plans and aspects of patient discharge.
For more information about the role and/or an informal conversation, view the Role Profile or contact Geeta Rath, Service Manager, Fostering by email- or Imran Khan, Team Manager Fostering -email
About Us
The London Borough of Sutton Children’s Services offers a supportive and inclusive environment for its Qualified Social Work staff. Specialist support on challenging cases, regular structured supervision, and an environment that encourages all those to take part and ensure their voices are heard.
The Fostering Team provides placements for children who cannot live with their birth families. The core tasks for the position of a Supervising Social Workers are to provide guidance, support and feedback to foster carers to enable carers to provide high quality care for our children. The tasks would also include ensuring foster carers comply with policies and procedures, promptly dealing with any safeguarding concerns, complaints or allegations, involved in meetings and foster carers reviews. This is achieved by working in partnership with relevant agencies, children and young people and their families. We provide a supported working environment that ensures manageable caseloads, regular supervision, daily management support and an abundance of learning and development opportunities for our Social Workers to grow and flourish. In addition we have a creative and flexible approach to the working week which allows for both home and office working which promotes a work/life balance.
Our Offer To You
As an organisation that values and nurtures talent, we’re committed to helping you fulfil your potential and will offer you a supportive, friendly and collaborative environment to grow and develop your career and skills. We’re constantly striving to improve our ways of working so putting your ideas across however big or small; will be fully encouraged and supported by your colleagues and our dynamic and experienced management team.
Employees have access to a wide range of benefits to enable staff to achieve a work life balance, some of which include:
20. A generous annual leave entitlement of 26-32 days plus bank holidays (pro-rata if part-time working hours apply) depending on service and grade
21. Enhanced Maternity, paternity, shared parental, adoption and dependents leave
22. Two volunteering days per year
23. Flexible Working - Smarter Working Scheme (dependent on the role)
24. Adjustable and agile working arrangements using Google Chromebooks
25. Learning and development portal offering a range of courses
26. Discounts on a range of local shops, restaurants, gyms and leisure centres
27. Interest free season ticket loans
28. Local Government Pension Scheme
29. Bicycle loan facilities and cycle to work scheme
30. Electric vehicle leasing scheme
31. Confidential health & wellbeing and counselling support