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Location: Dorchester, Dorset
Contract Type: Full-Time, Temporary
Are you passionate about supporting children and young people in care? Join Myn in recruiting for our long-term partner as a Social Worker in the Fostering and Supported Lodgings Team. Help make a difference in the lives of children and young people by supporting foster carers and delivering creative, relationship-based interventions.
What Youll Do:
- As a Family Worker within the Fostering Team, youll:
- Support Children and Carers: Provide tailored support to foster carers, supported lodgings hosts, children in care, and care leavers across Dorset and beyond.
- Conduct Statutory Visits: Complete regular visits and maintain accurate, timely records.
- Promote Stability: Help children remain with their foster families through interventions that prevent placement breakdowns.
- Collaborate: Work closely with multi-professional teams to ensure a young person-centred approach and effective pathways to independence.
- Safeguard: Follow safeguarding procedures, escalate concerns appropriately, and support carers with training and development.
- Build Relationships: Undertake direct work with children and their carers, addressing issues like family conflict, behaviour challenges, school attendance, neglect, and emotional health.
- Contribute to Panels: Attend and present at fostering and supported lodgings panels.
What You Bring:
- Qualifications: A recognised social work qualification (e.g., Degree/Diploma in Social Work) and registration with Social Work England.
- Experience: Proven experience working with children and young people, particularly those in care or transitioning to independence.
- Skills: Excellent organisational, communication, and relationship-building skills. A talent for writing detailed reports and meeting deadlines is essential.
- Approach: Passionate about making a positive impact, with a strengths-based and therapeutic mindset.
- Adaptability: Willingness to work flexibly, including outside normal working hours when necessary.
Whats in It for You?
- Meaningful Work: Make a real difference in the lives of children and young people, supporting them to thrive.
- Professional Growth: Benefit from monthly reflective supervision, 1:1 guidance from advanced practitioners, and access to a comprehensive induction and ongoing training opportunities.
- Supportive Environment: Join a team that values creativity, collaboration, and development.
- Career Progression: Take advantage of opportunities for growth within Dorset Council.
- Work-Life Balance: Dorset Council offers a supportive staff wellbeing service and encourages innovative, family-centred approaches.
The Bigger Picture:
Be part of a team that keeps children and young people at the heart of everything they do.
Help foster carers develop resilience and create loving, high-quality homes for children in care.
Support children and young people to remain in their communities whenever possible, building strong support networks.
If youre ready to bring your skills and passion to this vital role, apply now and start making a difference in Dorset.
