Family Support & Protection Social Worker
Southend on Sea Council's Fostering Support Team are looking to appoint a permanent, full time Supervising Social Worker to train, assess, supervise and support Foster Carers in their role of looking after children and young people. Ensuring that the highest professional standards and a good overall knowledge of relevant children’s and fostering legislation, regulations and practice methods are met.
You will provide an efficient service to children, young people, their families and fostering families, ensuring that the needs of children and their parents and carers are professionally assessed. You will be required to investigate, evaluate and analyse information on cases, demonstrating clarity of assessment, reliability of information, evidence in conclusions and realistic action plans. As well as this, you will need to develop practice which takes a holistic view of the individual, locating them in their immediate and extended social circles and having full regard to their overall development needs.
The team have an average of 15 cases per person.
Duty will be undertaken in the office approx 3 days a month, with an onsite team meeting every other week. The post is hybrid, but you will be expected to be on site a minimum of 2 days a week.
Full Time
Southend-on-Sea City Council
£37,938 - £43,693
