Barnardo's is one of the UK's leading children’s charities, and our North England Fostering Service is committed to providing safe, nurturing, and supportive homes for children and young people. We are now seeking a passionate and skilled Supervising Social Worker to join our dedicated team.
North England service cover Yorkshire, Humber and the North East of England. The successful applicant must be willing to drive across this region as part of their role.
Main duties of the job
As a Supervising Social Worker, you will play a vital role in supporting foster carers to provide high-quality care. You will:
* Supervise, support, and develop foster carers to ensure the best outcomes for children.
* Undertake assessments of prospective foster carers.
* Contribute to the matching process and foster home stability.
* Work collaboratively with children, families, carers, and professionals.
* Maintain accurate and timely records in line with regulatory requirements.
* Delivering training to foster carers
* Following induction period, join our out of hours rota
About us
We are committed to being an inclusive employer and cultivating a culture where everyone can belong and thrive through inclusion and connectivity. We want our workforce to be reflective of the communities we work with, and for equality, diversity and inclusion to be embedded in everything we do. We are a Disability Confident Leader, are progressing our ambition to be an anti‑racist organisation with Anti‑Racism Commitments and actions in place and have networks for colleagues who are disabled, LGBT+, Black and Minoritised Ethnic and Women. We particularly encourage applications from Black and Minoritised Ethnic and/or disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented in our workforce. For disabled applicants, we offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.
Job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
* Provide customised and focused Social Work support to Barnardos cohort offoster carers and/or adopters to ensure they provide a safe and secureenvironment for children/young people placed
* Undertake appropriate Social Work assessments in line with the needs of theservice users
* Adhere at all times to relevant Safeguarding procedures and immediatelyreporting child protection concerns internally in line with Barnardos policyand when appropriate to external bodies
* Maintain knowledge and understanding of and adhere at all times to allBarnardos policies and procedures, legislative requirements and relevantinspection bodies criteria
* Produce Social Work reports to be used externally and internally
* Represent Barnardos and/or the service at external and internal meetings
* In accordance with Barnardos policies and procedures, assist seniormanagement to address service complaints as and when required
* As and when required, provide support to colleagues at Joint Supervisionmeetings
Contribute to the development of the service by
* ensuring the voice of children/young people and carers/adopters arerepresented in the service through engaging in and where appropriatelead in the delivery of participation and consultation activities
* delivering relevant training to Barnardos cohort of foster carers andadopters to the relevant standards on both a group and individualbasis and provide feedback to enable training materials to be updatedto remain relevant and effective
* providing feedback to enable the development of service policies andprocedures or assist with service development projects in line withservice business plans
* providing feedback to enable development of service policies andprocedures and service delivery to young persons, carers and adopters
* supervision* of staff, students or volunteers may be expected*allocating work, day to day supervision & support
Qualifications
* Relevant Social Work Qualification such as DipSW, CSS, CQSW
* Valid Social Work registration Social Work England /CCWales/SSSC/NISCC
Experience
* Previous post qualifying experience in child care setting settings and/or pre-qualifying work experience in Fostering & Adoption
* Experience of group work and/or delivery of training
* Demonstrable experience in working with and on behalf of children,
* respecting and maintaining their individuality and promoting their positive development
* Experience of undertaking assessments
* Post qualifying experience in Fostering & Adoption is highly desirable
Skills
* Ability to produce complex reports and management information to be used for internal and external purposes
* Ability to work with a degree of autonomy, in a flexible and creative manner whilst maintaining adherence to policy and procedure at all times
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
£36,427 to £48,749 a yearPlus Office at Home Allowance - £312 per annum
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