Supervising Social Worker – Fostering Team
Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Supervising Social Worker within the Supervising Team to work Full Time for Diversity Foster Care, based in London.
The salary for this permanent Supervising Social Worker job is up to £42,500 per annum.
* To safeguard and protect the welfare and safety of the children in our care and assist them to achieve optimum individual outcomes.
* To act as the named Social Worker, supervising, supporting and developing designated foster carers.
* To participate in the training and induction of staff, foster cares and prospective foster carers.
* To ensure that all work is carried out in accordance with regulations and agency requirements and contribute to the evaluation and continual improvement of the Agency and its service provision.
* To undertake regular supervisory visits to assigned carers and provide telephone and if necessary additional support and guidance as and when required.
* Ensure that supervision records and action points are recorded and shared in a timely manner.
* Assist foster carers to achieve these standards through regular supervision discussion and support and provide opportunities for all parties so raise issues of concern where necessary.
* Ensure that carers are supported to work with children to achieve their expected outcomes and carry out the required tasks and action points arising from reviews and child related meetings.
* Help carers solve problems arising from placements such as behaviour management, safe caring and case recording issues and accompanying them at all times to key meetings.
* Assist carers with the timely completion of daily logs and monthly reports and effective use of the Diversity Foster Care electronic system.
* To assist the Placement Manager with the placement and matching process in order to safely match children and young people requiring foster placements with foster carers that have the skills and abilities to meet their assessed needs.
* Communicate with allocated child’s social workers, submit child related reports and information of relevance to the placement within the agreed time limits.
* Complete weekly records of work undertaken in order to enable the Operational Manager to determine priorities, monitor workload and assign tasks as appropriate.
* Attend regular supervision and annual appraisal meetings with line manager and participate in appropriate training and professional development.
* Carry out any other duties as required by the Agency Directors.
Requirements for this Supervising Social Worker role:
* Understanding of relevant legislation.
* Registered or eligible for registration.
* At Least 2 Years Experience.
Contact:
This Supervising Social Worker job is advertised by Zehnn Young; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
Due to the high volume of applications, we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients’ requirements.
As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.
Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).
With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.
Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.
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