Job Description
Job Description
Social Worker – Kinship Team
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Dumfries and Galloway
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£41,702.50 - £44,712.50
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Dumfries & Galloway Children and Families Social Work Service has an opening for a social worker to join and support our Kinship Team. This post is permanent and reflects almost fulltime hours (35 hours per week). The Kinship Team will provide a comprehensive service to kinship carers region-wide, delivering a high level of ongoing support and training, to ensure children and young people receive the best possible care.
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This is an exciting opportunity to join our Kinship Team and develop a service whilst working collaboratively across children’s services to achieve positive outcomes and support children and young people to remain living with their families.
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The nature of this role will require flexible working, which will include some mornings, evenings and weekends, however the person appointed will be involved in supporting the development of the service and planning any hours out-with core hours with the managers of the service. As a Social Worker in the team, your main role will be undertaking robust kinship care assessments and presenting these to the Kinship Panel, whilst providing excellent support to kinship families in their homes. You will play a critical part in developing and facilitating training a...