Social Worker – Fostering

Global Healthcare Jobs, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Social Worker within the Fostering Team to work full time based in Southend.

The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £42,403 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 the, 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 requirements, fostering regulations/national minimum standards and the council policies and procedures.
• To ensure that investigations, enquiries and assessments are completed to high professional standards within agreed timescales.
• To ensure that all case management complies with statutory requirements 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 Southend Borough Council.
• 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 attend panels, conferences, reviews and court as required for each case presenting the council plans and opinions with professionalism and integrity.
• To prepare and submit written reports as and when required.
• To identify service enhancements and support the culture of continuous improvement.
• To ensure the Team Manager is kept fully appraised of problems arising from workload and seek advice as and when necessary.
• To be familiar with Equal Opportunities good practice and the council requirements for diversity and to implement this in all aspects of working practice and promote it in the team and workplace.

Requirements of this Social Worker role:

• A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Registered or eligible for registration.

Contact:
This Social Worker job is advertised by Stefan Garrett; 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.