Social Worker, Kinship Team

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

The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £39,294 per annum.

Main duties:

• Act as the lead professional in statutory cases that require a qualified social worker.
• Undertake the full range of social work tasks relating to the assessment, and approval of family link and Reg 24/Connected Persons foster carers and Special Guardians.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues in social work teams across Children’s Services, partner agencies including the agency’s legal department, Medical Advisor and fostering panel, as well as external agencies and courts involved in care planning, placement and review of children with connected persons or mainstream foster carers.
• In collaboration with colleagues in Children’s services and external agencies, coordinate the statutory checks of potential foster carers, Special Guardians and their household members to ensure their approval in compliance with the Foster Carers, Special Guardians and their household members to ensure their approval in compliance with the Fostering Services Regulations and within court directed timescales.
• Undertake the full range of social work tasks involved in maintaining and reviewing the approval of foster carers, to ensure they remain fit to foster and their approval terms remain relevant.
• Promote foster carers continuous development through collaboratively completing and reviewing their Personal Development Plans, coordinating mandatory and relevant fostering training and learning opportunities.
• Monitor the safer care practice of foster carers that children in their care are safeguarded, and work in partnership with foster carers, colleagues, children’s social workers, LADO and partner agencies to address and investigate any safeguarding concerns.
• Establish and develop collaborative working with allied health and social care practitioners from children’s and adult’s services.
• Build professional credibility within the multi-professional partnership by achieving practice standards and meeting performance targets consistently, providing accredited practice teaching as required.
• Actively contribute to team working, supporting colleagues, covering for colleagues in their absence and taking part in team meetings and development events.
• Understand and integrate into practice the key policies of the Council in relation to social care with children and families, especially multi-disciplinary working, integration and whole family approaches.
• Develop professional expertise in at least one of the key risk factors affecting the welfare of children, parental alcohol/substance misuse, parental mental health problems, domestic abuse, learning difficulties, and homelessness.
• Develop an excellent knowledge base of and collaborative working with local preventative and targeted family support services, particularly those provided by the voluntary and community sector.
• Demonstrate a high level of competence and confident in the use of the Council electronic case recording/reporting tool, maintaining accurate and up-to-date child records in compliance with the Integrated Children’s System.
• To promote equality, diversity, and inclusion, maintaining an awareness of the equality and diversity protocol/policy and working to create and maintain a safe, supportive and welcoming environment where all people are treated with dignity and their identity and culture are valued and respected.
• To understand both Council’s duties and responsibilities for safeguarding children, young people and adults as they apply to the role within the council.

Requirements of this Social Worker Job.

• Degree or equivalent in Social Work.
• Current Social Work England Registration.
• Experience within Children’s Services.
• Full Drivers Licence and have use of a vehicle.

Contact:
This Social Worker job is advertised by Zehnn Young: 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.