Childrens Social Worker – Fostering

Seven Social Care are currently looking for a Qualified Childrens Social Worker to join the Fostering Team in Stockport. 

Responsibilities:

• Recruit, assess, and monitor the continued suitability and competence of foster carers, ensuring they provide a safe, healthy, enjoyable, nurturing and learning environment for the children they care for.
• Attend Placement Planning Meetings when a child is received into care.
• Ensure that foster carers fully understand the fostering task, competencies to be achieved and the standards expected, as detailed in the Family Foster Care’s Policies and Procedures, and in the Foster Carer Handbook.
• Ensure foster carers meet the requirements of the Training Support and Development Standards and they can evidence their competencies within the specified timescales.

Applicant Requirements:

Qualifications: Qualification in Social Work

Experience: Must have at least 2 years post qualifying experience working in a fostering team supporting & Supervising foster carers within a Local authority or an IFA.

Compliance: Current DBS check, right to work in the UK.

Travel: Clean UK driving license with the ability to commute to and from work independently. Must be able to travel to Stockport to undertake face to face visits with foster carers. All Supervision visits are now face to face. 

Hours: Full time 37 hours – Hybrid 

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