Job Opportunity with TACT Fostering: Sessional Assessing Social Worker

Location: Peterborough, Wisbech, Northampton, Wellingborough

Pay – £2,000 per Form F Assessment plus 45p mileage

Hours: Variable

Closing Date: 23/03/2025

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Role: Self-Employed Form F Assessor

Locations:  East Midlands including Peterborough, Wisbech, Northampton, Wellingborough, Corby, Oundle, Kettering, Market Harborough, Leicester, Nottingham, Newark, Mansfield

As a self-employed worker with TACT, you will be a part of our amazing team of professionals working with our organisational values at the heart of their everyday practice. 

This is a hybrid working role and you will assess prospective foster carers using a combination of video calling and face-to-face visits.

Key Duties for Form F Assessors include:

• To undertake and complete Form F assessments in the timescale set out in our policy and guidance.
• To visit personal referees as identified on application form for prospective foster carers.
• To ensure that all checks and references are undertaken and completed.
• To provide to the supervisor, regular written updates of the draft assessment.
• To liaise with our administrative team concerning the progress of administrative checks and completion of the Form F.
• To be available for supervision, consultation or liaison as required.
• To be available to present completed Form Fs to the virtual fostering panel and provide support to the applicants through this process.
• To be aware of our child protection procedures and immediately report any child protection matter or concerns to a TACT manager and any relevant placing authority and the area authority.
• To carry out the duties in line with our Foster Carer and Supervising Social Worker Standards and Practice Guidance.

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