Member Job Opportunity: Barnardo's - Social Worker - Family Placement

Location: Home Based
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: 37
Salary: £28,631 - £37,414 FTE
Closing Date: 24 May 2021
Interview Date: TBC

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​Barnardo's North West Fostering has an exciting vacancy for a Social Worker to join its Service. You will be joining an experienced and stable staff group who embrace working in a creative, open and transparent manner with foster carers to provide children with placements in which they can thrive.

As a Social Worker you have the chance to make a real difference in the lives of Children, Young People and Families by:

• Recruiting, assessing and approving a diverse range of fostering families to meet the needs of waiting children
• Matching the needs of children nationwide with the skills of appropriate foster carers
• Ensuring all foster carers have access to excellent training, guidance and support when they require it, including managing ongoing contact with birth family
• Working directly with fostering families promoting a trauma informed approach and helping build and maintain family relationships

If you have a passion and drive to make a positive difference to children and foster carers we would like to hear from you.

The duties of this post require the applicant to have a full current driving license that enables them to drive in the UK and have use of a car and business use insurance.

Please note that Barnardo's is in the process of implementing a ‘work from anywhere' strategy. This means that you will not be allocated a desk space in an office and are likely to be primarily required to work from home, with flexible work spaces being available for you to use when necessary.

The applicant will need to be able to participate in an "On Call" rota Out of Office hours. There is additional remuneration for providing this service.

Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we therefore offer flexible working arrangements as the role involves some evening/weekend working and travel with occasional overnight stays.

When completing your application please refer to your skills knowledge and experience in relation to the Person Specification, Job Description and Additional Information document (if applicable). This should be done with an understanding of the context of the service described.

About Barnardo's
At Barnardo's we believe in children – no matter who they are, what they have done or what they have been through. Please read about our basis and values following the link below. You will be asked questions relating to them as part of the recruitment process for this role.

Barnardo's is committed to having a diverse and inclusive workforce for staff and volunteers. We actively encourage applications from disabled, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic and male candidates as they are under-represented within Barnardo's.

Our basis and values

Full details and application documents here