Supervising Social Worker – South-East Team

Global Healthcare Jobs, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Supervising Social Worker within the South-East Team to work full time based in the South-East region covering South-East Essex, South London, and North Kent.

The salary for this permanent Supervising Social Worker job is up to £36,900 per annum.

Main duties:

• Recruiting, supervising, training and supporting foster carers, their placements and support workers in the region. Ideally you will be based in the South-East region covering South-East Essex, South London, and North Kent
• Participate in negotiations between the client and placing authorities with respect to the placement of children with physical, learning disabilities and/or Autistic spectrum disorder (ASD)
• Ensure that all agreements pertaining to the placement are completed and adhered to
• To ensure that staff and carers are working within the requirements of the Fostering Regulations 2011 and the National Minimum Standards for Fostering Services 2011 (amended 2013)
• To undertake initial home visits and Form F assessments
• Provide ongoing support to carers and their birth children before, during and after placement
• To attend the regional Fostering Panel as required
• To ensure safeguarding children is paramount in your work
• The post holder will be required to travel, dependent upon the needs of the service and therefore full access or ownership of a car is an essential requirement of the role
• The post holder will be required to work flexible hours to meet the needs of the service
• Participate in the emergency ‘Out of Hours’ service (approx. once every 10 weeks)
• Participate in the Social Worker Duty Rota during office hours as required
• Maintain a professional image and standard of presentation both personally and corporately
• Undertake any other duties at the request of the Directors, dependent upon the post holder’s area of expertise, knowledge and skills, regarding the level of responsibility afforded by the post held
• To work, always, in accordance with policies, procedures and ethos

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.