Job Opportunity with FFP Member, Action for Children: Fostering Social Worker

Location: Exeter, Devon (Hybrid Role)
Salary: £35,000 per annum + £700 Out of Hours Allowance
Contract Type: Permanent Full Time (Part- Time Considered)
Closing Date: 7 May 2023

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Contract/Hours: Permanent, Full-time 37 hours per week. We will consider part-time, working 80% of the hours.
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At Action for Children, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnicities and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups in society and for Action for Children.

Benefits

• Basic annual leave of 29 days PLUS bank holidays
  
• Up to 7 more days leave for continuous service PLUS the option to buy another 5 days every year!
  
• Gain professional qualifications with excellent training, and development opportunities.
  
• Flexible maternity, adoption and paternity packages.
  
• Up to 7% employer pension contribution. Staff discount portal with your favourite brands.
  
• Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 discounts from national retailers.

Why Action for Children?
We are one of the UK's largest children's charities – you may have seen us featured in a well-known Christmas TV advert for 2022.

Action for Children Fostering Southwest Peninsula and Family Breaks Devon seeks to meet the needs of the most vulnerable children and young people in society through the provision of safe, secure, and successful foster homes and short breaks provision for children with additional needs.

We offer the highest standard of care, provide foster families with excellent training, supervision, and support to achieve the best outcomes for the young people we look after striving to provide a good quality of care to young people, always ensuring they are the centre of our approach.

We pride ourselves in being collaborative and inclusive. Are you passionate about changing the lives of children and young people to give them the best possible future?

A bit about the role
We are looking for an outstanding Fostering Social Worker who can support carers from Devon, Cornwall, Playmouth and Torbay - your ability to travel across this area as and when needed is imperative for this role. 

How you'll help to create brighter futures. 

• Providing professional supervision and developmental support, including advice and guidance to fostering families and working with other professionals where appropriate.
  
• Completing complex assessments of applicants to foster, making appropriate recommendations.
  
• Supporting fostering families to look after children and young people who have experienced trauma.
  
• Undertake fostering reviews, providing high quality, analytical reports and presenting to Panel where appropriate.
  
• Ensure all regulatory body requirements are met.
  
• Enthusiasm for learning and development

Let's talk about you.
Are you resilient and have a positive approach to change and challenge? We are looking for someone with a ‘can do' attitude to join our team. Ideally you will have:

• A Social Work qualification.
  
• Registration with Social Work England
  
• The ability to prioritise and manage your work to deadlines complying with regulatory requirements.
  
• Strong ethos of keeping the child at the centre.
  
• Strong commitment to work within our therapeutic framework to support the needs of children.
  
• Be able to use IT effectively including participating in virtual meetings and webinars.
  
• Experience of fostering is preferable.
  
• Access to a suitable means of transport to undertake the duties of the role Travel across the Peninsula area is essential.

Good to know.
If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with the job description, we'd love you to apply anyway. You might just be the perfect person for this role, or another role within the Action for Children family.

Application Process: There are five sections to complete: Personal Details, CV, Supporting Statement & Information, Equality & Diversity, Submission & Declaration.

Interviews will take place on Friday the 12th of May 2023 via Microsoft Teams

Contact: Erika Brinkman, Recruitment Partner via email;

[email protected]

Full details and application documents here