supervising social worker.

Responsibilities:

• To assess, and monitor the skills of foster carers to ensure that they provide a safe, healthy, nurturing and learning environment for children.
• To work with carers to ensure that they fully understand their role, identify and capture their development needs on a personal development plan (PDP).
• To provide support to carers to enable them to evidence level of competence against required training standards within timescales, and following an assessment, sign off each standard.
• Provide and record regular supervision to allocated foster carers
• Provide support based on evidence and best practice, which is tailored to meet individual child and the foster family and appropriate to the situation.
• Provide written case notes and reports
• Understand and recognise that children's safeguarding needs change, report concerns appropriately to your line manager in line with safeguarding policy and procedures
• Carry out in-depth assessment of applicants including undertaking initial visits and carer assessments.
• To contribute to Foster Carer Annual Reviews, within required timescales, providing written evidence of competence and presenting annual review reports to panel as required.
• Ensure that risks are managed with the child's best interest at the centre of all decision making and that subsequent actions are followed through.

Minimum Requirements:

• ​​SWE​ Registration
• 2 year post qualifying experience within UK
• Eligibility to work in the UK

Benefits of working with Randstad:

• Dedicated consultant
• Access to a variety of Social Care jobs Nationwide
• DBS and Compliance Service
• Quick and Easy Registration Process
• Access to CPD

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If you are ready to take the next step in your social work career and make a significant impact on the lives of children, we want to hear from you. Apply today and become a part of something truly meaningful.

Randstad Care acts as an employment business when supplying temporary staff and as an employment agency when introducing candidates for permanent employment with a client. Randstad Care is an equal opportunities employer and decisions are made on merits alone.

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