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

Location: Brighton & Hove Link Plus
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: 37
Salary: £28,631 - £38,163 (Full Time Equivalent)
Closing Date: 17 March 2022
Interview Date: 30 March 2022 TBC

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Plus On-call allowance

• Do you want to work for the UK's largest children's charity?
• Do you have experience of and a passion for working with Disabled children, young people and their families?
• Do you have experience of working within a fostering/short breaks service and undertaking Form F fostering assessments?
• Are you skilled at recruitment, supporting and matching foster carers with children and families to provide essential personalised family-based short-breaks or full-time permanent fostering placements?

If you have answered YES to the above questions, you may just be the person we are looking for.

You will be required to:

• Hold a caseload of up to 12 families, required to deliver some 1-1 work and be flexible.
• Provide supervision, support and training to foster and short break carers and an on-call provision.
• To travel throughout the city of Brighton & Hove Council.
• Support the participation of disabled children y/p and ensuring their voice is central.
• Record on our Charms data base, joint lead responsibility for recruitment of foster carers and manage our Facebook page and monitoring data for reporting purposes.

At Brighton & Hove Link Plus service, we are a supportive, committed experiences team and we are passionate about the work we do. We are a fully funded service, commissioned by Brighton & Hove City Council, to deliver an “Outstanding” Ofsted rated bespoke fostering and short-break service for disabled children and their families in the city

If you would like to discuss this post, please do not hesitate to telephone Lisa Giles, Children's Services Manager on 07841 839983 or Vicky Lloyd, Team Leader on 07808 214847. This post will be partly based at Brighton Hove Link Plus service in Hove and partly some home-based working.

No agencies please. We look forward to hearing from you.

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.

Full details and application documents here