Fostering Reviewing Officer - Social Worker

# Fostering Reviewing Officer - Social Worker## About the role
** Make a real impact on the lives of children and the carers who support them
****** Are you passionate about improving outcomes for children in care and ensuring foster carers receive the support and challenge they need to provide safe, nurturing homes?

This role offers the chance to shape practice, influence service development, and play a key part in maintaining high standards across our fostering service.
**** The Fostering Reviewing Officer sits within the
** Quality Assurance function
** of the Fostering Service, championing excellent practice and ensuring that every fostering arrangement truly supports children to thrive.

This role brings
** independent, insightful oversight
** to fostering arrangements, keeping the needs, safety, and wellbeing of children firmly at the centre. It’s a position for someone who isn’t afraid to ask the right questions to drive better outcomes.

You will be working across the county, responsible for
** chairing fostering reviews
** that are purposeful, reflective, and focus on improving children’s lived experiences. Providing a clear, balanced evaluation, of the quality of care foster carers offer and assessing how well the fostering service is supporting placements, you will work closely with social workers, fostering teams, and partner agencies while maintaining a clear and independent, child‐centred perspective.

The team is committed to
** continuous improvement and accountability
** ensuring that practice meets statutory requirements, local policies, and best practice standards. Within this environment, the Reviewing Officer plays a key role in identifying strengths, highlighting areas for development, and supporting service‐wide learning.

This role makes a real difference to the organisation by helping to ensure that:
* Foster carers are appropriately supported, challenged, and developed to provide the best possible care.
* Children in care receive safe, consistent, and high-quality care.
* Practice across the fostering service is regularly reviewed and improved.

This is a
** hybrid role,
** blending home working with time at Scott House in Huntingdon and visits across the county.

If this sounds like an role that suits your skill set, we would love to hear from you! For more information, call Service Manager Ana Caldararu on Closing date Sunday 12th July, interviews will be held in the week commencing 20th July.

Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.### What will you be doing?

You’ll take the lead in
** organising and chairing annual foster carer review meetings,
** ensuring all relevant information is gathered and that they run smoothly, professionally, and in line with fostering regulations.  You’ll form balanced, analytical recommendations that support safe, high‐quality care and clear recommendations central to determining a carer’s ongoing suitability,A key part of your day-to-day work will involve
** undertaking robust assessments of foster carers’ ability to meet the needs of children.
** This will include considering the wishes and feelings of children, as well as feedback from professionals involved in their care, to form a balanced and evidence-based view of how carers are meeting children’s needs.

You’ll work closely with fostering teams,
** building strong, constructive  relationships
** that help the review process run effectively. You’ll also play a key part in service improvement by:
* ** Investigating concerns, allegations or issues relating to standards of care
** and providing clear, evidence‐based findings including making judgements about the continued suitability of foster carers.
* Contributing to
** quality assurance and service improvement
** by identifying themes, strengths, and areas for development across the service and providing analytical feedback to senior leaders to shape policy, practice, and training.
* Supporting the
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