Location: Walsall Salary:Up to £37,290 p.a.+ £1,500 p.a. (OOH) + £750 p.a. (Homeworking Allowance) Closing Date: 16/12/2020 Interview Date: 14/01/2021 Hours: 35 hours per week Full Time - Permanent (Monday to Thursday 9.00 - 17.15 and Friday 9.00 - 16.00)
Home based TACT, the UK’s largest fostering and adoption charity now has over 500 dedicated carers, who look after over 600 children and young people across the country. Our reputation and growth rests upon our strength in providing successful placements. As a charity, we do not have shareholders who receive profits and we invest all of our surplus income into service, staff, carers, and children’s development. Our vision is to provide better lives for our children and young people. Find out more about our values here: https://www.tactcare.org.uk/about-us/ A post has arisen for a Senior Supervising Social Worker who will support and supervise the foster families and placements we have in the West Midlands area in this home based role. The successful candidate will be part of the wider, dynamic and forward thinking registered office in Walsall. We are interested in individuals for whom quality of service is paramount and in those who share our commitment to working in partnership with children and their foster carers in the development of the agency. The successful candidate should also have post qualifying experience in family placement work or other child care settings as well as a good working knowledge of relevant legislation and child protection procedures. TACT offer an excellent employee benefits package including:
Please see the Job Information Pack for further information. You will need to be DipSW, CSS or CQSW qualified and registered with Social Work England. An enhanced DBS clearance is also required and is requested for you by TACT. The successful applicant will be required to participate in an Ouf of Hours rota paid as an allowance of £1,500 per annum. Closing: Wednesday, 16th December 2020 Interviews: Thursday, 14th January 2021 (via video Microsoft Teams) Safeguarding is everyone’s business and TACT believe that only the people with the right skills and values should work in social work. As part of TACT’s commitment to safeguarding, we properly examine the skills, experience, qualifications and values of potential staff in relation to our work with vulnerable young children. We use rigorous and consistent recruitment approaches to help safeguard TACT’s young people. All our staff are expected to work in line with TACT’s safeguarding policies. TACT does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them. TACT reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications, so we advise you to submit your application as early as possible to prevent disappointment. Full details and application documents here Comments are closed.
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