Job Title: Supervising Social Worker
Responsible To: Registered/Deputy Manager
Location: Birmingham Area
Working Hours: 37.5 Hours Per Week Monday - Friday
Pay: Up to £39,000.00 per year
Qualified Social Workers Only
Job Summary
Swiis Foster Care is looking to recruit a passionate and dedicated supervising social worker to join its established service in Birmingham. The post is full time and permanent. The post would suit both newly qualified social workers and experienced social workers. There is an attractive annual salary up to £39,000, depending on experience, plus a Car Allowance of up to £3,400.
The role of supervising social worker is an exciting and a stimulating one that involves providing intensive support to a small caseload of foster carers and their families to enable them to provide the very best quality of care to the vulnerable children they look after.
Job Type / Category
Working in accordance with the Fostering Services (England) Regulations 2011 and the Fostering Services National Minimum Standards 2011, you will provide monthly Supervision to a manageable caseload of foster carers, undertake additional planned and unannounced visits to children in placement, formulate training and development plans for carers, and forge effective working relationships with the local authorities responsible for children. You will have excellent recording and report writing skills and will be IT competent.
You will be a team player, a good communicator and a skilled and self-motivated professional, with the ability to work flexibly. As well as managing your caseload, you will be part of a duty rota to support the running of the service, both within and outside of normal office hours. There is also an expectation that you will be involved in delivering training to prospective and existing foster carers. You will receive training and development to support you to deliver this part of the role.
You will have a good understanding of the needs of looked after children and of the challenges that these bring for foster carers, as well as transferable assessment skills, but you need not have direct experience within the fostering sector.
You will have a strong commitment to promoting and safeguarding the well-being of children, but you will also have an appreciation of the demands that come with working for a high quality independent fostering service in an increasingly competitive environment.
Required Education, Skills and Qualifications
Essential requirements
- Current HCPC registration and be eligible to work in the UK
- MA/BA in social work/DipSW/CQSW
- Thorough understanding of legislative framework pertaining to children
- Ability to manage a case load
- Strong assessment skills
- Car driver with own car
The Supervising Social Worker position is available immediately; and is full time, permanent, with office hours covering. Standard office hours are 9.00 am - 5.30 pm, but this is role that does require you to be able to work evenings on a regular basis and weekends on occasions (out of hour allowance paid).
Benefits
- Competitive annual salary
- Generous car allowance and mileage expenses
- 30 days annual leave + 8 Bank Holidays
- Excellent Private Health Care options available after qualifying period
- HCPC reimbursement
- Pension Scheme
- Childcare vouchers
- Eye care vouchers
About Swiis:
Swiis Foster Care is a national leading Independent Fostering Agency with consistently Outstanding Ofsted inspections due in part to the high-quality service provided to our foster carers and children and young people in our care. Swiis Foster Care is a family-owned independent fostering provider which has been operating for over twenty years.
Swiis Foster Care is a continuously expanding company and offers significant development opportunity for the right candidate.
Apply now
If you believe that you have the appropriate experience and ambition to work for one of the finest Independent Foster Care Agencies in the UK and have the desire to really improve outcomes for children and young people looked after, then please submit an up-to-date CV detailing a full employment history.
Swiis is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to ensuring that our staff have excellent working conditions and genuine career opportunities. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and we expect all employees to share this commitment and undertake the appropriate checks which will include an Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service Check.
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Private dental insurance
- Private medical insurance
- Referral programme
- Sick pay
- Work from home