Supervising Social Worker - Fostering Team - Birmingham

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Supervising Social Worker within the Fostering Team to work Full Time for Swiis Foster Care, based in Birmingham, West Midlands.

The salary for this permanent Supervising Social Worker job is up to£39,000per annum.

Main duties:

• Manage and supervise a caseload of approved foster carers.
• Ensure that carers fully understand and fostering task, competencies to be achieved and the standards expected, including complaints and presentation procedures as detailed in the Swiss policies and procedures.
• Provide and record regular supervision to allocated foster carers in line with Swiis operational procedures, as to frequency and content, and undertake such additional support visits/telephone contact with foster carers as placement agreements/contracts may specify or require.
• Undertake re-assessment of current foster carers where necessary.
• Attend any meetings to support foster carers, children and young people.
• Social Workers must ensure each child has an accurate and up to date care plan on file and that carers have a copy available for reference.
• Work in partnership with the relevant authority to ensure that the child and young person's needs as identified in the care plan and placement agreement are met.
• Individual risk assessment and safe caring documents are completed for all children/young including behaviour management plans where appropriate.
• Ensure that comprehensive case recordings are completed and maintained within policy timeframes and added to the relevant agency database.
• In consultation with Line Manager, ensure that learning and development needs meet the requirements of professional development.
• Attend meetings and/or provide reports for commissioning or care teams to address individual needs and care package.
• Ensure our record-keeping and data processing procedures comply with GDPR requirements and agency policy related to data protection.
• Ensure that staff specifically nominated to carry out duties as part of the health and safety policy are adequately trained, supported and have the resources to carry out their role i.e first aid personnel, safety officers, fire wardens, safety representatives.
• Take responsibility for own health and safety and that of others by following health and safety systems and procedures and keeping all work areas clean and tidy.

Requirements of this Supervising Social Workerrole:

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

Contact:
This Supervising 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, Sanctuary Personnel 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.

Sanctuary 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, Sanctuary 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.