Fostering Social Worker

Are you a passionate and committed Social Worker looking to make a real difference in the lives of children and young people? Join Barnardo's Midlands Fostering Families and become part of a supportive, values-driven team that is dedicated to helping children thrive in safe, nurturing foster homes.

This exciting role will primarily support foster families across the South East region, providing high-quality supervision, support and guidance to foster carers. While the role is regionally based, occasional travel to the Midlands will be required for team meetings, training and service events.

As a Fostering Social Worker, you will play a vital role in recruiting, assessing, supervising and developing foster carers, ensuring children receive outstanding care and support. Working in partnership with local authorities and multi-agency professionals, you will help create positive outcomes for children and young people, enabling them to reach their full potential.

We are looking for a qualified Social Worker who is passionate about relationship-based practice, has excellent communication skills, and is committed to delivering high-quality fostering services. Experience with in fostering, children’s social care or looked-after children services is desirable.

In return, Barnardo's offers a flexible hybrid working model, opportunities for professional development, access to a wide range of employee benefits, and the chance to work within one of the UK’s leading children’s charities.

Join us and help transform children’s lives through fostering.

We appreciate our colleagues’ dedication and their commitment to delivering excellence in the vital work we do, driven by the passion and commitment to Barnardo's. We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people.

We are committed to a rounded colleague experience with an approach to both pay and rewards that are fair, attractive, and progressive. This is in support of our strategic ambition to ensure Barnardo's is a place everyone can belong, grow and thrive.

The salary range advertised is in line with our pay principles, for consistency and fairness while recognising the skills and experience applicants bring to the role. Appointing salaries can be discussed further at appointment stage; we do seek to appoint within this range always exercising responsible stewardship.

Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, in the community, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or depending on the role any combination of these. Please read through the advert carefully to understand the remits of hybrid working that will be specific to the role.

Barnardo's require colleagues to be UK residents, based in the UK and to complete their roles from within the UK (with the exception of colleagues providing Barnardo's services in Jersey and colleagues who live in the Republic of Ireland providing services in Northern Ireland)

• Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
• Annual Leave entitlement for full-time colleagues is 26 days per annum, increasing to 27 days per annum, after 3 years Barnardo's service, 29 days per annum, after 5 years Barnardo's service and 30 days per annum, after 7 years Barnardo's service. Those working less than full time…