Social Worker - Fostering Service
Team: Fostering Service
Job Family: Supporting - CBG9 (Level 1 Social Worker )- CBG10 (Level 2 Social Work)
Salary: Level 1 (CBG9)- £32,442 - £35,107 per annum pro rata + £5,100 MRS per annum pro rata
Level 2 (CBG10)- £35, 992 - £37,536 per annum pro rata + £5,150 MRS per annum pro rata
Hours: 37 hours per week (2 positions avaliable)
Location: You will be expected to attend a CBC office location as often as needed to carry out your role, which will be no less than once per month.
Contract Type: Hybrid - Permanent
Closing Date: 12th May 2024
Interview Date: 21st May 2024
About the role;
We are recruiting for two Social Workers, at either Level 1 or 2, to join us as a Fostering Assessing Social Worker and a Supervising Social Worker.
You will be part of a dedicated fostering team to ensure that each foster carer understands their role and responsibilities throughout the assessment and through supervision. Assessing social workers undertake initial visits, reg 24’s, Special Guardianship Assessments, friends and family foster assessments, and Form F assessments. You will support foster carers through the rewards and challenges that they can face as foster carers. When completing assessments and supervision, you will work closely with the applicants to assess their strengths and vulnerabilities and assessing the care they can provide to children in order for them to achieve their best outcomes. As a supervising social worker, you will provide regular supervision to foster carers, complete annual reviews attend panel, provide support during times of challenge and work with the whole family.
Our fostering team work together with foster carers to care for children safely and help them achieve their full potential. It is all about creating better outcomes and a bright new generation for our community. Helping children to thrive by supporting foster carers is an important and rewarding role.
About the Central Bedfordshire Council Fostering Team :
Here in Central Bedfordshire, we have exciting plans to continue to shape how we work with families and their children. Having recently launched a new dedicated Corporate Parenting Service we work in a service that is highly ambitious for all of our children and our care leavers. During a recent focussed visit Ofsted recognised Central Bedfordshire’s values of 'placing children and young people at the centre of all that we do by not working to but ‘with’ children and their parents'.
As Corporate Parents, we ensure meaningful engagement with children and young people and we stick with them, so that they reach their aspirations and go on to succeed in adulthood, living successful independent lives.
Relationship based practice sits at the core of everything we do by working with children, families and their natural networks to build on their strengths. Our workforce told Ofsted that they enjoy working for Central Bedfordshire and feel well supported by visible and caring managers and senior leaders and Ofsted also recognised the level of support available through a wide range of relevant training and development opportunities which help our practitioners undertake reflective and effective quality work with children and their families and networks.
Our Offer
We have a number of rewards and benefits available to our staff, to view these please visit our Rewards and Benefits page
Our aspiration is to be a truly flexible employer. We welcome discussion on location, hours and working pattern as part of the application process.
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You will be expected to demonstrate how you meet the key accountabilities and competencies in this Recruitment Pack.
Our Competency Framework and Qualification Guidance are to be read in conjunction with our Recruitment Pack.
For an informal discussion, please contact our Team Managers Emma or Lou, and we would be happy to arrange a discussion at a time that suits you:
Emma Thurlow-Pick at Emma.Thurlow-Pick@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk or Louise Britton at Louise.Britton@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk
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Safeguarding
Central Bedfordshire Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all employees, volunteers and contractors to share this commitment. This post is subject to the disclosure of criminal records.
To maintain a fair and consistent approach for applicants, it is Central Bedfordshire Council's policy to only consider applications made via our online application system and we therefore thank you for not submitting your application offline.
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