Member Job Opportunity: Action for Children - Fostering Social Worker

Location: Hybrid – Horfield Bristol
Salary: £36,050 per annum pro rata - Plus on call allowance
Contract/Hours: Permanent part- time 22hrs per week.
Closing Date: Midnight 1st of February 2023

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Location: Hybrid – Horfield Bristol - You will be expected to travel around the Southwest, but we do offer the flexibility to work from home on occasions.

Benefits:

• Basic annual leave of29 days PLUS bank holidays – pro rata
  
• Up to 5 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.

Vulnerable children in the UK need your help.
Wherever you work in the Action for Children family, you'll be helping to change the lives of the most vulnerable children in the UK.

Last year, we helped more than 670,000 children and families across the UK. From direct work in communities to national campaigning, we are focused on making sure every child has a safe and happy childhood, and the foundations they need to thrive.

Why Action for Children?
Working here is more than a job. Everyone in the Action for Children family is passionate about protecting and supporting children. It's the sense of purpose that drives us every single day. Because we know that, when we work together, we can make a huge difference to bring lasting improvements to vulnerable children's lives.

Action for Children does what's right, does what's needed and does what works for children in the UK. Every year, our team changes the lives of thousands of children.

A bit about the role
Our three linked services, Fostering Southwest, Fostering Southwest Peninsula and Family Breaks Devon provide high quality foster families to vulnerable children and young people from our offices in Bristol and Exeter.

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

We are looking for an outstanding Fostering Social Worker who can support placements in the Southwest of England.

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, to ensure the best outcome for children, young people, and families.
  
• Supporting fostering families to look after children and young people who have experienced trauma, ensuring they have the skills and knowledge to enable them to undertake this complex task within a family home environment, undertaking fostering reviews, providing high quality, analytical reports and presenting to Panel where appropriate, ensuring that children are receiving the best service possible.
  
• Being accountable for ensuring statutory compliance and meet regulatory body requirements regarding registration.
  
• Enthusiasm for learning and self-development, for yourself as a reflective practitioner, and in support of our carer training.

Let's talk about you

• A Social Work qualification.
  
• Registration with Social Work England.
  
• Preferable experience of assessing, supervising, and supporting foster carers.
  
• Experience of managing crisis and breakdown in placements.
  
• A strong commitment to work within our therapeutic framework to support the needs of the young person.
  
• The capacity to plan and prioritise.
  
• To use electronic records system and IT effectively.
  
• Experience of fostering is preferable.
• Access to transport to travel across the Southwest including some remote locations.

Working here is so much more than a job. Whether this is a career change for you or the next step in your journey, we'd love to hear from you.  

Good to know

Interviews: Interviews to take place on Tuesday the 7th of February ‘23

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

Talent Pool
We know talent when we see it. But sometimes we find the right person but not for the right job. We'd love to keep your details for when the right job comes up. Let us know if you'd rather we didn't.

Contact: Recruitment Partner Erika Brinkman on 01923 361723 or [email protected] if require any further information.

Diversity, equality, and inclusion
At Action for Children, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic, 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.

Male staff are under-represented within our Children Service roles. We would like to encourage more male applicants for our Children Service roles.

Don't meet every single requirement?
Studies show that women and Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic people are less likely to apply for a job unless they meet every qualification. So, 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.

Want to know more about Action for Children?
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Good luck! We can't wait to hear from you.

Full details and application documents here