Principal Social Worker | Fostering Team

• Job Title: Principal Social Worker
• Team: Fostering
• Employer: Cardiff Council
• Rate: £41.50 per hour

This is a non-case holding position offering the opportunity to combine strategic planning and service development with involvement in day-to-day practice matters. Working closely with the Service Manager, you will help ensure the delivery of a consistently high-quality fostering service, tailored to meet the needs of both kinship and mainstream foster carers.

You will play a key role in supporting staff, promoting best practice and ensuring assessments and service delivery meet the required standards.

• Lead and support the development of fostering practice and service performance.
• Undertake quality assurance of fostering assessments completed by internal and external assessors.
• Provide supervision, guidance and support to staff within the fostering service.
• Maintain a strong working knowledge of fostering legislation, regulations and guidance.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the fostering panel process and its role within the service.
• Contribute to strategic planning, service improvement and the development of effective fostering provision.
• Work alongside the Service Manager to develop tailored support for kinship and mainstream foster carers.
• Promote high standards of practice, safeguarding and quality across the service.

Working with Tripod Partners offers you a number of benefits including:

• Your own dedicated specialist consultant
• Access to the widest variety of social work jobs across 150 authorities and private organisations throughout the UK
• Prompt and reliable payroll
• Free DBS and compliance service
• £500 referral fee