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Wakefield are currently a full time Social Worker within the Mainstream Team of the Fostering Service, the successful candidate will be offered £35 per hour.
Wakefield work at pace to try and ensure that we have a fostering service that meets the needs of our children and young people in foster care and allows them to feel safe, secure, and able to thrive.
Thriving children in thriving families need exceptional people to support them. Being a Senior Social Worker within a busy team you will be passionate about matching children to the right foster carers, providing placement stability, and achieving good outcomes and permanence for children.
Duties:
- To work with carers to ensure that they fully understand their role, identify and capture their development needs on a personal development plan (PDP).
- Assist in the 'Skills to Foster' training as appropriate.
- To provide support to carers to enable them to evidence level of competence against required training standards within timescales, and following an assessment, sign off each standard.
- Provide and record regular supervision to allocated foster carers
- Provide support based on evidence and best practice, which is tailored to meet individual child and the foster family and appropriate to the situation.
- Provide written case notes and reports
- Understand and recognise that children's safeguarding needs change, report concerns appropriately to your line manager in line with safeguarding policy and procedures
- Carry out in-depth assessment of applicants including undertaking initial visits and carer assessments.
- To contribute to Foster Carer Annual Reviews, within required timescales, providing written evidence of competence and presenting annual review reports to panel as required.
- Ensure that risks are managed with the child's best interest at the centre of all decision making and that subsequent actions are followed through.
Essential Qualifications:
- Social Work Degree (BA/BSc/MA/MSc) or equivalent
- Social Work England registration
- Experience working with families in a social work setting
- Strong assessment and case management skills
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and advocacy skills
- Ability to build positive relationships with families
- Commitment to working in a strengths-based approach
- Knowledge of family support interventions and models
- Experience working with diverse communities
- Understanding of relevant legislation and policies (e.g., Children Act 1989, Working Together to Safeguard Children)
- Experience using case management software
- Experience working with families facing specific challenges (e.g., domestic violence, substance misuse, mental health issues)
- £300 referral scheme
- Dedicated consultant
- Access to a variety of Social Care jobs Nationwide
- DBS and Compliance Service
- Quick and Easy Registration Process
- Access to CPD
Randstad Care acts as an employment business when supplying temporary staff and as an employment agency when introducing candidates for permanent employment with a client. Randstad Care is an equal opportunities employer and decisions are made on merits alone.
Did you know that Randstad Care have been awarded a place on the National Clinical Staffing Framework for the NHS? This means we will be able to bring you more opportunities within nursing & midwifery and clinical staffing.
