Grade: H scp 27 £38,220- scp 31 £41,771 plus Essential Car User Allowance up to £963pa
Grade I scp 31 £41,771 -scp 35 £46,142 plus Essential Car User Allowance up to £963pa
Contract: Permanent
Essential Requirement: SWE Registration, DBS.
Essential Qualification: Candidates must be Social Work Qualified and Registered with SWE
Unfortunately, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.
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The Role
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Social Worker within the fostering service mainstream team. As a Supervising Social Worker, you will provide regular supervision and support to foster carers, and to our children and young people placed in their care. You will have the skills and knowledge to fulfil the roles and responsibilities of the supervising social worker including, safeguarding children and young people, produce relevant reports that are analytical and high quality and present to foster panel when required. You will ensure fostering regulations, and relevant policies and procedures are met through compliance, advice and guidance to foster carers. You will work in partnership with professionals and partners to enhance children and young people’s daily lived experiences and achieving good outcomes.
You will be joining a friendly service that consists of an established team of experienced individuals with expertise in all areas of children social care and specialism in fostering.
If you think you could be what we're looking for, please apply now with your CV and covering letter explaining how you meet the requirements of the role as covered in the job description and person specification. Please indicate in your letter whether you are interested in the full or part time role. There is flexibility for the days of the week for the part time role.
Interviews will be held on 2 March
About You
We are looking for a qualified and registered Social Worker with Social Work England, with experience in children and families with a sound working knowledge of safeguarding, children social care and fostering legislation and regulations. You will have a passion and drive to emotionally and practically support and supervise foster carers to ensure a breadth of skill sets and expertise, to offer a varied and excellent range of foster placements that meets the individual needs of all our children looked after, ensuring stability, improving outcomes and experiencing care that is safe and of the highest quality.
About Us
This is your opportunity to join us at an exciting time as we have strong ambitions for the borough.
Bolton is a great place to work. We are a welcoming organisation that wants to contribute to a place where people feel active, connected and prosperous. We are passionate about improving the outcomes and experience of Bolton people. We want Bolton to be a vibrant place built on strong cohesive communities, successful businesses and healthy, engaged residents.
As an employer we want to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment, by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits, including discounts and exclusive gym membership prices and salary sacrifice schemes. In addition, we offer a generous annual leave allowance, flexible work opportunities, access to a Pension Scheme, as well as a range of employee wellbeing and support services.
Our Values are really important to us, read all about them below, along with all our great staff benefits, the job description/person specification for the role and the important legal bits, and our Top Tips too.
Ready to apply? Then please click Apply and upload your anonymised CV and supporting statement discussing your relevant skills and experience and explain how you believe they make you a strong fit for this role.
Within Greater Manchester, local authorities have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers, carers, and ex-military personnel. Please see greater.jobs for further information before you apply.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An Enhanced DBS with check of relevant barred list is therefore required for this post.
This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English as per the person specification.
This organisation has signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. That means we will recognise your continuous or ‘unbroken’ service in any Greater Manchester local authority or NHS organisation that has signed the commitment, Transport for Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service or Greater Manchester Combined Authority, giving you access to our service-related benefits. Please see the home page of greater.jobs for more information.
For more information about working for Bolton Council, please see greater.jobs; for advice and support with your application, contact recruitment@bolton.gov.uk
Supporting Documents
* ↗ Supervising Social Worker JD
* ↗ Privacy and Cookie Policy
* ↗ Top Tips
* ↗ Staff Benefits
* ↗ Our Values & Behaviours
* ↗ Documents for DBS
* ↗ Documents for Right to Work
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