Our Client, Wigan Council, is seeking a Children’s Social Worker to join their Fostering Team.
Fantastic payrate of £35 per hour!
Are you an Childrens Social Worker, passionate about making a difference in your community? Do not miss out on this fantastic opportunity!
Responsibilities of this role:
* Recruit, assess, and monitor the continued suitability and competence of foster carers, ensuring they provide a safe, healthy, enjoyable, nurturing and learning environment for the children they care for. Attend Placement Planning Meetings, when a child is received into care.
* Ensure that foster carers fully understand the fostering task, competencies to be achieved and the standards expected, as detailed in the Family Foster Care’s Policies and Procedures, and in the Foster Carer Handbook.
* Ensure foster carers meet the requirements of the Training Support and Development Standards and they can evidence their competencies within the specified timescales.
* Provide and record regular supervision to allocated foster carers, in line with Family Foster Care’s Policies and Procedures, as to frequency and content; and undertake such additional support visits / telephone contact with foster carers as placement agreements
Requirements of this role:
1. Must be a Qualified Social Worker, registered with Social Work England.
2. Must have a Social ...