Member Job Opportunity: Community Foster Care - Supervising Social Worker (Gloucester)

Job Location: Gloucester
Salary: £28,318.50 - £36,540
Hours: Full Time
Closing date: 30th July 2021

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Our Vision 
A world where all children and young people grow up in families rich in the essential ingredients required for them to realise their ambitions and dreams.

Our Mission
To create environments, enrich families and harness communities that enable Children and Young People to overcome adversity and abuse, by creating an enduring sense of belonging.  By doing this and by working together, we will have the courage to overcome barriers, through tenacity and creativity we will release their potential.

Role Summary
A Supervising Social Worker at Community Foster Care will be driven to promote the Child or Young Person’s Ambitions or Dreams.  They will do this by recruiting, enabling and enhancing foster families to provide safe, stable, loving, nurturing family homes.  Children and Young People seeking to live within these families will have often experienced significant trauma and abuse.  Enabling Children and Young people to thrive in our foster families will therefore require a number of special ingredients, which you will need to develop and nurture.

Key drivers of considerations
As a Supervising Social Worker you will at all times:

• Adhere to Relevant Legislation and Regulation including The Fostering Services (England) Regulations 2011.
• Work consistently with Community Foster Care’s values and contribute to achieving its mission.
• Seek to develop and enhance good social work practice for yourself and for others.
• Promote Community Foster Care’s reputation and protect its ability to achieve its mission.  

 
Key requirements of which you should be aware 
Supervising Social Workers may often be required to work outside of office hours.  This may be to:

• offer support to Foster Carers in order to promote the wellbeing of the Child or Young Person or Foster Family or both.
• meet with potential foster carers or existing foster carers to assess, provide training or support.
• support a child / young person’s arrival with a family.
• You will need to participate in the out of hours telephone support rota.
• You must be able to travel effectively, as extensive travel will be a key feature of the role.
• You must be a qualified Social Worker with your own HCPC registration.

Full details and application documents here