Supervising Social Worker

Supervising Social Worker - Fostering

Location:

Birmingham, South Midlands

Salary: £35,146 - £41,736

Hours:

Full-time, 37.5 hours per week | 9-day fortnight available

Interview process:
Candidates must be available to attend a face-to-face interview

Leaders in Care is recruiting an experienced and motivated Supervising Social Worker to join an established independent fostering service in Birmingham.

This is an excellent opportunity for a skilled Social Worker with fostering or children's services experience to manage a varied caseload, support foster carers and help secure positive, stable outcomes for children and young people.

You will work as part of a collaborative, supportive team while managing your own workload with a good degree of autonomy.

The role As a Supervising Social Worker, you will oversee a caseload of up to 10 active and complex fostering cases. You will provide high-quality supervision and support to foster carers, while ensuring that children's needs are understood, safeguarded and effectively met.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Managing, supervising and supporting foster carers and the children and young people placed with them.
• Completing high-quality Form F assessments and presenting assessment reports to fostering panel.
• Supporting the recruitment, assessment, approval and preparation of prospective foster carers.
• Delivering and contributing to pre-approval and post-approval foster carer training.
• Completing annual foster carer reviews and maintaining accurate, up-to-date case records.
• Supporting the matching of emergency and planned referrals with suitable fostering resources.
• Ensuring placement administration, reports and statutory documentation are completed accurately and on time.
• Working closely with local authority social workers, commissioning professionals and other stakeholders.
• Responding promptly, appropriately and in line with procedure to safeguarding and child protection concerns.
• Participating in the out-of-hours telephone support rota for foster carers.
• Supporting student social workers on placement, where appropriate.

Contributing as a flexible and positive team member to meet the needs of the service.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, organised and child-focused Social Worker who can build trusted relationships with foster carers and professional partners.

To be considered, you will need:

• A recognised Social Work qualification:
  Social Work Degree, DipSW or CQSW.
• Current registration with Social Work England.
• At least three years' post-qualified experience within children's services, fostering or related care settings.
• Experience of assessing, training and supporting foster carers.
• The ability to manage complex cases and provide effective foster carer supervision.
• Strong understanding of fostering legislation, regulations, safeguarding and child protection procedures.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to write clear assessment and panel reports.
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage workload, priorities and deadlines independently.
• Confidence working with IT systems, Microsoft Office, databases and electronic recording systems.
• A full, clean driving licence and access to your own vehicle.
• Flexibility to take part in an out-of-hours support rota and occasional evening or weekend commitments.
• A post-qualifying award and at least two years' experience assessing and supervising foster carers would be advantageous.

Why apply? You will be joining a service committed to delivering safe, supportive and stable fostering placements for children and young people. The organisation values professional development, teamwork, high standards of practice and inclusive working.