Social Worker/Senior Social Worker, Kinship Team

Social Worker/Senior Social Worker, Kinship Team

plus an Essential Car User Allowance: £1239 per annum and 2% Recruitment and Retention Allowance paid monthly

INTERVIEW DATE 21.11.2024

This is your opportunity to join our ‘Outstanding’ Company and make a difference!

Join us and help us in continuing our outstanding journey!

Together for Children works on behalf of Sunderland City Council to deliver children’s services in the city, which means that local authority continuous service terms and conditions apply. We are looking to appoint a motivated Social Worker within our Kinship Team (previously called Connected Carers Team) which operates within the Fostering Service, which was rated as ‘good’ in a judgement by Ofsted in 2022.

Child-Centred, Respectful, Creative and Transparency are our company values and this is what you can expect from Together for Children when you join us. An Ofsted rated Outstanding service, ‘where all workers have reasonable caseloads and are well supported by visible and approachable managers; as a result, social workers are supported to carry out innovative work with children’ (Ofsted 2021).

We currently have a permanent full time vacancy (37 hours per week) and a part time vacancy number (25.5 hours per week), within our Kinship Team. The team is responsible for undertaking viability assessments, kinship carer assessments, supporting kinship carers and completing SGO assessments and SGO post Order support assessments.

Together for Children prides itself on a visible senior management team who promote a nurturing, learning environment with high support and high challenge.

Together for Children have adopted the Signs of Safety model of practice. Signs of Safety is embedded in all areas of practice across the service. Applications are welcomed from those with and without any knowledge and experience of Signs of Safety, as we have the benefit of an extensive training and support offer, via our Practice Development Team.

Together for Children firmly believes in investing in our workforce development and recognises the benefits of training social work colleagues to equip them with the skills and knowledge to deliver good quality social work. Additional specialist training programmes currently offered, include Trauma Informed Practice.

A good health and wellbeing programme is also provided to all employees.

Should you be interested in the exciting opportunities available at Together for Children, and would like to have an informal discussion, please do not hesitate to contact Viv Sear, Team Manager on 07500993642. or peoplesupport@togetherforchildren.org.uk

This post is exempt from the rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore will be subject to a DBS check from the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Visa sponsorship: We welcome applications from all nationalities; however, successful candidates must, by the commencement of employment, have the right to work in the UK”.

If you would like to have an informal discussion about this post please contact peoplesupport@togetherforchildren.org.uk

Together for Children is committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse local communities that we support across Sunderland. We’re striving to build an inclusive workplace culture where all employees feel valued and diversity is celebrated by everyone.

As part of this commitment, we work collaboratively with our established employee networks:

Armed Forces Network

We welcome and encourage job applications from candidates regardless of their age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, belief or race, and background.

If you have a disability please do reach out to our Accessibility Network Chair to hear how we can support you during the recruitment process and if you are successful, in the workplace peoplesupport@togetherforchildren.org.uk

For further information on Together for Children, please take a look at our website: https://www.togetherforchildren.org.uk