Social Worker (Foster Service)
About the Role
Join Children's Social Care as a Social Worker on a starting salary of £40,833, and receive a Welcome Bonus of £1000 paid in your first month's salary and a Retention Bonus as the following:
£1000 paid for your first completed year in service£2000 paid for your second completed year in service
£3000 paid for your third completed year in service and every year thereafter
With a total package of up to £53,089 including bonuses and benefits, this is an excellent opportunity to advance your career in social care.
We've got an exciting opportunity for you as an Assessing Social Worker as part of our Fostering Service within Children’s Social Care. Our mission is to empower children to live independently as possible and provide the necessary support in safeguarding their well-being. We need your expertise to make it happen. In this role, your responsibility will include:
Recruit, assess, and monitor the continued suitability and competence of foster carers. This includes holding information sessions, attending to screening calls, undertaking initial enquiries, Initial Home Visit, Skills to foster training, stage to assessments, and attending fostering panel.
Participating in promotion of fostering service.Completing timely assessments and sensitive to the needs of the prospective foster carers.
Ensuring assessments undertaken to identify foster carers suitable for a child are informed by a clear understanding of the child's needs and of the skills necessary to help and support them.
We aim to deliver a Fostering Services that recruits a range of foster carers who can meet the diverse needs of children who are looked after. This role will challenge you in a dynamic and diverse environment whilst helping you to expand your knowledge and skill set in the practice of children social care.
Our teams are renowned for its ability to craft outstanding care plans that prioritise the needs and voices of service users, integrating input from various professionals, families/carers, and external agencies to ensure the best outcomes are achieved.
Are you ready to take the next step? We are here to support your growth as you begin your career at Suttons Children's Social Care. Apply now and join us as we navigate this journey toward excellence.
About Us
The London Borough of Sutton Children’s Services offers a supportive and inclusive environment for its Qualified Social Work staff. Specialist support on challenging cases, regular structured supervision, and an environment that encourages all those to take part and ensure their voices are heard.
Our Locality Teams offer a social work service to children and young people in the Borough who are living at home on plans under Section 17 or Section 47 of the Children Act 1989. This is achieved by working in partnership with relevant agencies, children and young people and their families.We provide a supported working environment that ensures manageable caseloads, regular supervision, daily management support and an abundance of learning and development opportunities for our Social Workers to grow and flourish. In addition we have a creative and flexible approach to the working week which allows for both home and office working which promotes a work/life balance.
Working with Kingston University and regional partners as part of the Developing Together Social Work Teaching Partnership (SWTP). The partnership offers staff a wide range of pre- and post-qualifying education opportunities to promote continuous learning and development.This includes staff being encouraged to support the practice education of Social Work students and those in the assessed and supported year in employment (ASYE). Staff are also given the opportunity to attend conferences, and workshops and have access to research and practice resources to support their ongoing professional development.
Sutton Council also has a number of staff network groups such as the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic +A Network, LGBTQ +A Network and Women’s +A Network to ensure staff have a voice to drive positive change in the organisation.
About You
This position offers an excellent opportunity for individuals with outstanding communication skills and a compassionate manner capable of effectively managing high levels of emotional distress. We encourage applications from candidates with experience in Childcare and those passionate about delivering person-centred care.You'll join a welcoming, supportive, and energetic team dedicated to providing first class supervision and ongoing professional development opportunities.
In addition, we would expect the following from all suitable candidates:
To be registered with Social Work England and hold a degree in Social Care or similar.Have experience of working in a multidisciplinary team setting.
Have sound knowledge and ability to deliver social work support to service users and their families.
Ability to communicate complex social issues clearly to both patients and professionals.
Ability to plan and coordinate social care plans and aspects of patient discharge.
For more information about the role and/or an informal conversation, view the Role Profile or contact Geeta Rath, Service Lead for Special Guardianship, Kinship and Fostering Recruitment and Assessment Team on geeta.rath@sutton.gov.uk or the Recruitment Team on recruitment@sutton.gov.uk