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Barnardo's North West Fostering Service is part of a leading national independent fostering agency, providing fostering and short break services.
At Barnardo's, our purpose is to transform the lives of the UK's most vulnerable children and our vision is to realise Thomas Barnardo's dream of a world where no child is turned away from the help that they need.
Barnardo's North West Fostering Service aims to achieve high quality, stable placements for children and young people by ensuring that foster carers are appropriately recruited, assessed, trained and well supported within the required regulations and national minimum standards.
We are looking to recruit a Supervising Social Worker with the necessary drive, enthusiasm, ambition and commitment to complement our already well-established team. The successful candidate will need to share and promote our ethos and values and demonstrate a passion to promoting good outcomes for our children and high quality support to our foster carers.
As a Supervising Social Worker you will support the recruitment, assessment, supervision and training of foster carers in order to provide high quality and effective fostering placements that children thrive within.
Barnardo's North West Fostering Service provides a variety of fostering provision including, short term emergency placements, short Breaks, Short and long-term/permanency, unaccompanied asylum seeking children & staying put arrangements.
This is home based position with the requirement to travel throughout the North West area. The office base for the Service is in Speke, Liverpool. The successful candidate will be required to participate on the rota for the 24 hour helpline for foster carers.
A Social Work Degree, Dip S/W, CQSW or equivalent is required for this post as well as registration with Social Work England.
Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible.
Pay & Reward Framework
We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's? values.? We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people.
For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which was rolled out in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our? People & Culture?Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to belong, thrive and grow in their colleague journey at Barnardo's and in time will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues in both their career and their pay.
Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the minimum to mid-point of the pay band - this ensures that pay steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours.? More details on Barnardo's pay framework can be found upon application.
