Salary: £40,221 - £43,421 a year plus £5,500 market supplement and £963 essential car user (subject to criteria)
Hours per week: 37
Contract type: Permanent

About the role:
We have a fantastic opportunity within our Fostering Marketing, Recruitment and Assessment Team. You’ll be supporting the Deputy Team Manager and Team Manager to provide high quality fostering resources, recruiting, assessing, supervising, training and supporting foster carers in their placements.

As a Senior Practitioner, you’ll be promoting LBC values, qualities and standards to ensure a professional service with the aim of achieving improved outcomes and experiences for children and young people placed with our foster carers, whilst working in the legislative and regulatory framework.

You’ll carry a caseload requiring a high level of professional skill and provide effective and high quality social work services within the Fostering Service. You’ll perform tasks related to the recruitment, assessment, support and training of foster carers in accordance with legislation, guidance and good practice.

About you:
We are looking for someone with substantial post qualifying experience and the ability to demonstrate a high level of competence in the field of fostering in line with national quality standards and best practice.

We need someone who can make and act upon sound professional judgements based on levels of risk and demonstrate high quality report writing skills, especially court reports.

You’ll be a strong communicator with the ability to build effective relationships with customers, staff, public and other professionals, including the ability to negotiate and influence others.

Within this role, your ability to perform research and initiate change and development, as well as developing the professional needs of other team members will be crucial.

We do ask that you have in-depth knowledge of current legislation, national guidance and best practice relevant to the post.

We also ask that you have Dip SW, CQSW, or a recognised equivalent professional qualification and are registered with Social Work England.