Supervising Social Worker - London, United Kingdom - Impact Care Services

Impact Care Services

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Job Description

Job:
SupervisingSocialWorker

OfficeLocation :
Homebased however regular in person meetings in Luton Office.

Reports to:
Agency Manager

Hours:37.5 hours per week

Salary:
£32,000 - £40,000 (dependent on experience)

SupervisoryResponsibilities:
Yes - Foster Carers / Social Work Students

Travel required:
Yes

Purpose of Post

To deliver excellent social work practice, assessing need, planning and working purposefully with fostering households, support networks and other professionals to manage risk, safeguard children and promote positive outcomes.

To provide a social work service which is both relationship-based and which responds in a timely manner within statutory guidelines.

Manage fostering resources in an allocated area, recruiting, assessing, supervising, training, and supporting foster carersand their placements, promoting and ensuring that the organisation provides quality, professional services for local authorities placing children and young people

Summary of Responsibilities

Deliver social work practice which is informed by statutory guidance, best evidence, and knowledge from research.

Provide focused and purposeful informed social work services, in complex situations, with explicit aims and objectives about desired outcomes which are proportionate to identified risk and need of each fostering household, and each child and young personin placement.

Establish rapport, build and maintain professional, respectful, and honest relationships with foster carers, children and their families to develop trust and assist in safeguarding children, resolving conflict and promoting positive and timely outcomes.

Work with a degree of independence without the need for close supervision, whilst recognising when and how to seek advice from a range of sources.

Use supervision to identify strategies to build professional resilience and balance the potential for biasin decision-making.

Recruit, assess and support fostering households in an allocated area including partaking in recruitment activities, initial visits, form F assessments, presenting to panel, assisting with matching, supervising households and ensuring that fostering householdsare familiar with, and comply with Flowers Fostering Agency policies and procedures.

Deliver services flexibly across different parts of the organisation, inclusive of working from home, office premises, and within community settings.

This includes partaking in the office-based placement duty system, and out of hours duty system on a rotabasis.

Work purposefully with other practitioners to devise and implement child-centred written plans of work with foster carers, their families, and children and young people in placement.

Ensuring the voice of the child is captured and visibly evident throughoutall work undertaken.

Actively seek to implement Flowers Fostering Agency Health and Safety Policy in relation to the duties of the post, and always give due regard to the health and safety of both themselves and others when carrying out their duties.

Actively seek to implement the Flowers Fostering Agency Equal Opportunity Policy and the objective to promote equality of opportunity in relation to the duties of the post.

Person specifications:
Technical skills / professional qualifications / relevant education and training
Professional Social Work Qualification and be registered as a social worker with Social Work England (A)
A satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level is required.
Must be able to provide evidence of continuing professional development (A)
Ability to consider issues relating to diversity and the experience of discrimination (I)

Ability to collate and analyse complex information and produce high quality data and reports that are easily understood by others, with clearly evidenced recommendations.

(I)
Commitment to the principles of openness, transparency and accountability (A, I)

Ability to develop and deliver effective social work practice in complex situations, manage own workload and be accountable for work with children and families.

(A, I, T)
Ability to provide professional guidance, support and developmental opportunities with colleagues and contribute to organisational development. (A, I)

Ability to work flexibly to fit in with the needs of young people and families - including evenings and weekends when required.

(A, I)
Ability to develop professional relationships with children and their families (A, I)
Computer literacy skills at a level to maintain case records within information management systems. (A, T)
Experience and knowledge required, including budget holding experience if appropriate
Three years post qualifying experience (A)
Knowledge of childcare legislation, statutory guidance and the London Child Protection Procedures (A, I)
Experience of working within the framework of the Children Act 1989, Care Planning Regulations 2010, Fostering Regulations 2011, National Minimum Standards and other relevant legislation, Statutory guidance, Standards and Procedures (A, I)
Knowledge and understanding of child development, parenting capacity, environmental factors and risk and protective factors (A, I)
Knowledge and understanding of current issues in children's social work practice (A, I)
Knowledge of roles and responsibilities of key fostering and children's agencies (A, I)
Experience of delivering direct social work with fostering households, as well as with children and their families to effect change, (A, I)

Experience of assessing potential fostering households, from point of initial visit to completion of Form F assessments and presenting these to fostering panel, as well as having experience of support applicants and carers in attending panel.

(A, I)
Experience of preparing other reports and presenting these within formal settings, such as matching panels or contested court proceedings. (A, I)