Supervising Social Worker- Fostering- South London- Uxbridge

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Supervising Social Worker within the Fostering Team to work full time based in Uxbridge.

The salary for this permanent Supervising Social Worker job is up to £36,000 per annum.

Main duties:

• To provide a supportive and efficient service to children, young people, their families and fostering families ensuring that the needs of children and their parents and carers are professionally assessed.
• To investigate, evaluate and analyse information on cases, demonstrating clarity of assessment, reliability of information, evidence in conclusions and realistic action plans.
• To develop practice which takes a holistic view of the individual, locating them in their immediate and extended social circles and having full regard to their overall development needs.
• To ensure that all casework and foster care services comply with statutory requirments, fostering regulations/Nat minimum standards and the Council’s policies and procedures.
• To ensure that investigations, enquiries and assessments and completed to high professional standards within agreed timescales.
• To use ICT as required to maintain adequate case recording as directed by the service procedures.
• To ensure that all management complies with statutory requirments and the Council’s policies and procedures.
• To liaise with and work in partnership with other agencies and organisations, to support care plans of children in placement and the work of foster carers.
• To undertake the recruitment, assessment, training and the initial and ongoing development of foster carers, enabling the service to meet the diverse needs of children in the Borough.
• To participate in an effective referral and allocation system, ensuring that relevant documentation is available and current for children looked after by foster carers. To ensure children are placed in conjunction with Fostering regulations, national minimum fostering standards and the Council’s policy and procedures.
• To attend panels, conferences, reviews and court as required for each case presenting the Council plans and opinions with professionalism and integrity.
• To be familiar with Equal Opportunities good practice and the Council requirments for Diversity and to implement this in all aspects of working practice and promote it in the team and workplace.

Requirements of this Supervising Social Worker job:

• A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Continual professional development.
• Social Work England registered.

Contact:
This Supervising Social Worker job is advertised by Lucy Pearson; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.

Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).

With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.