Social Worker - Fostering

Location: Oxfordshire

Social Worker
- Fostering Salary
- Salary from ASYE level £36,363 up to £46,142 (depending on experience) PLUS Essential Car User Allowance. Passionate about your practice? Be at the heart of our transformation journey. Join a service that empowers you, supports you and values your skills. Make the change, be the difference to our children, our future. Due to internal promotions, we are seeking two full time Social Workers to join our Children's Fostering Team.

As a Social Worker in North East Lincolnshire Council’s Children’s Services, you will work as part of a team to provide high quality Social Work practice to make a lasting difference to the lives of children and families. Social Work practice is highly valued and supported by skilled, knowledgeable and caring leaders and managers. You will be joining a service that is built on pride and passion, who have high aspirations for children and families and who are committed to empowering them to thrive and be the best they can be.

If you are an enthusiastic, ambitious and passionate Social Worker who wants to make a lifelong difference to children’s lives and improve their outcomes, we want to hear from you. Children's Fostering Social Work Team We are developing and expanding our Fostering Social Work service to further build the skills, knowledge and expertise to support foster carers in delivering our vision for children to grow up happy, healthy, safe in their homes and communities with people who love them.

We are looking for social workers with fostering experience, we are also keen to hear from social workers who feel they may have transferable skills with a continued passion to learn and develop in this area of Social Care practice. You will have a good understanding of the impact of trauma affecting children and be able to support foster carers in caring for children, working within a supportive service.

With a supportive leadership structure, Fostering Social Workers support and supervise Foster Carers in addition to undertaking assessments that relate to Fostering and Kinship arrangements. Alongside the statutory role, you will also be expected to engage with prospective new and existing foster carers such as supporting marketing and recruitment events, support groups, fostering celebration events, delivering and participating in training for foster carers and matching homes for children with the right fostering families to support stability.

Fostering changes lives and we want the most committed social workers to help us to continue to do just that For more information, please refer to the role profile or email:
Jacqueline Mills
- Service Lead - jac Come and meet us! Thinking about your next social work role? As the Local Authority Headline Sponsor of The Social Work Show Manchester 2026, we're looking forward to meeting social workers at all stages of their careers. Come and speak with our Children's Services colleagues about:
Current vacancies Career progression opportunities Supported Assessed and Supported Year in Employment (ASYE) programmes Learning and development opportunities The difference you can make for children and families in North East Lincolnshire Our Offer Salary from ASYE level £36,363 up to £46,142 (depending on experience) PLUS Essential Car User Allowance. Social Workers from out of the area will also have access to a relocation and travel from home scheme worth up to £8,000.

If you are interested in learning about pathways in to Social Care check out Social worker | Explore careers | National Careers Service for more information. In order to fully comply with Safer Recruitment guidelines, if you are successful with your application, you must meet the below criteria and be able to provide:
At least one reference must be from your current or most recent employment, placement or work experience (if you are an agency worker at NELC, please provide your agency as a reference) You must provide a professional/company email address (we cannot accept personal email addresses) References must cover the last 3 years, any reasons for gaps should be detailed in your enhanced reference form.

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