Supervising Social Worker

Global Healthcare Jobs, 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 Northampton.

The salary for this permanent Supervising Social Worker job is up to £45,000 per annum

Main duties:

• The Supervising Social Worker is key to the delivery and organisation of support to carers, their families and young people
• Our Team provides support and supervision to our approved foster carers
• We also run the duty system working with the Placements Team whereby children are placed with foster carers
• We have several specialist schemes including Family Link carers for our children with disabilities, Resilience carers for our young people stepping down from residential, Parent and Child carers for parent and babies as well as our other mainstream carers to support
• Supervising Social Worker to ensure Outcome Trackers are completed in line with policy and procedures
• Supervising Social Worker to assess support needs and proactively plan support in advance
• The Supervising Social Worker is responsible for delivering supervision to carers in line with policy and procedure
• Supervising Social Workers will prepare written reports for Looked After reviews and other meetings
• Supervising Social Worker to also attend and contribute to Looked After reviews and other meetings in respect of young people
• The Supervising Social Worker is responsible for contributing to a high standard of recruitment of carers
• They also contribute to the ongoing training of carers, their families, and associated others
• Via ongoing supervising and other contact with the foster home, the Supervising Social Workers contribute to the on-going reviewing process for carers in line with policies and procedures
• The Supervising Social Worker is responsible for attending and contributing to team meetings and team events
• Must ensure files are kept up to date for carers and young people
• Monthly monitoring of matching, placement plans/care plans, health and education plans, permanence plans and where appropriate pathway plans. Monthly checks to ensure carer and young people’s files for compliance with NMS and procedures, Monthly reviews of risk assessments and behaviour management plans
• The post holder will undertake any other reasonable duties

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 is advertised by Harry Smy; 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, Global Healthcare Jobs 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.

Global Healthcare Jobs 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, Global Healthcare Jobs 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.