Fostering Supervision and Support Social Worker

About the Team

Warwickshire has a fantastic Fostering and Kinship Service, which is child focused. We recruit foster carers, assess, train and supervise and support them. We are fortunate to have psychologist practitioners who are based in our team. We will offer the successful candidate regular supervision and support. We are a trauma informed service and use restorative practice, which you will be fully trained in.

We are proud of our Fostering and Kinship Team and if you join us, you will see why.

Warwickshire County Council, Warwickshire has a fantastic Fostering and Kinship Service, which is child focused. We recruit foster carers, assess, train and supervise and support them. We are fortunate to have psychologist practitioners who are based in our team. We will offer the successful candidate regular supervision and support. We are a trauma informed service and use restorative practice, which you will be fully trained in.

We are proud of our Fostering and Kinship Team and if you join us, you will see why. Now is an exciting time to be part of our team as Warwickshire begins to embed our Families First teams who support the young people in our County. Our approach is about locality working, multi disciplinary and multi agency teams that support the whole family.

Building strong partnerships with local services, Health, Police and Education. If you want to build strong relationships and connections with families, join Warwickshire’s Children and Families service.

• Supportive managers who provide recognition and a robust supervision policy focussed on wellbeing and workload.
• Full reimbursement of Social Work England annual fee.
• A Volunteering & Wellbeing Day in addition to generous annual leave and an additional day at Christmas
• We also offer a Refer a Friend package for some roles. Terms and Conditions apply

We are recruiting for the role of Supervising Social Worker in our Fostering and Kinship service covering Warwickshire for a 2-year fixed term, full-time basis.

• Provide a range of support to carers and young people to maintain the stability in foster homes for mainstream and Kinship carers, including providing supervision and support to foster carers
• Undertake Fostering Home Performance reviews
• To complete SGO reports for court
• Support as required with standards of care, position of trust, allegations, placement planning meeting and placement support meetings, learning reviews and to be part of the duty team
• Support recruitment events and social events for foster carers

The role of the Fostering Supervising Social Worker is a key position that brings together the needs of children and young people who are looked after with the support element of foster carers. We expect you to work with foster carers as partners and guide them to their full potential within parameters of the Fostering National Minimum Standards 2011. We come from a restorative practice base and encourage and celebrate successes and support to find ways of making a difference when things just don’t go so well.

For this post we are looking to recruit a Fostering Supervising Social Worker for a 2 year fixed term position which is full time, 37 hours. The post is countywide with an expectation that you may also need to support carers living outside of Warwickshire. We are offering this role so that we can meet the needs of increasingly growing fostering and kinship service.

Importantly your work will be child focused, analytical, and based on safeguarding evidence.

Some evening and weekend work is required.

We would welcome you into a stable and established team and offer training and high-quality supervision.

Applicants for the role will need a professional Social Work qualification and Social Work England Registration.

If you want to build strong relationships and connections with families, join Warwickshire’s Children and Families service.

For further information please see the Job Description and Person Specification.

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