Supervising Social Worker - Fostering Team - Bristol - Sanctuary Personal

Overview

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Supervising Social Worker within the Fostering Team to work Full Time for Swiis Foster Care, based in Bristol.

The salary for this permanent Supervising Social Worker job is up to £39,000 per annum.

• Manage and supervise a caseload of approved foster carers.
• Monitor and evaluate, the continued suitability and competence of Foster Carers ensuring they provide a safe, healthy, nurturing and learning environment for children/young people.
• Ensures that carers fully understand the fostering task, competencies to be achieved and the standards expected, including complaints and presentation procedures as detailed in the Swiss policies and procedures.
• Support Foster Carers to evidence their competence against the TSD Standards and complete the workbook within specified timescales, assess evidence provided and sign off each standard where sufficient evidence has been provided.
• Provide and record regular supervision to allocated foster carers in line with Swiss’s operational procedures, as to frequency and content, and undertake such additional support visits/telephone contact with foster carers as placement agreements/contacts may specify or require.
• Work in partnership to help identify any needs within the foster family e.g. respite, activities, holidays, with all members of the child’s network, including contributing to all relevant meetings and any other tasks defined.
• Contribute to foster carer annual reviews, within required timescales, providing written evidence of competence. Presenting annual review reports to Swiss panel as required.
• Individual risk assessment and safe caring documents are completed for all children/young including behaviour management plans where appropriate.
• Ensure each child has a placement agreement on file and that carers have a copy available for reference if appropriate.
• Ensure that comprehensive case recording are completed and maintained within policy time frames and added to the relevant agency database.
• Ensure all paperwork and procedures in relation to critical incidents and notifiable events, are completed.
• Maintain data management of all information regarding foster carers and children in line with Data Protection and Swiis storage, retention, archive policy.
• Post holder will be expected to demonstrate that Swiis’ Values are at the heart of all they do.
• Set a good example of appropriate behaviour and ensure that there Is a supportive working environment.

• A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Registered or eligible for registration.

This Supervising Social Worker job is advertised by Stefan Garrett; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients’ requirements.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.

Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).

With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.