QSW- Fostering

Do you enjoy supporting Foster Families to overcome challenges?

Do you want to help children to reach their full potential?

Are you a Qualified Social Worker with foster carer supervisory experience ?

This is a Social Work role - Fostering and is responsible for providing a social work service to foster carers and children/young people to ensure that the best outcomes for children and young people is achieved at all times in line with all statutory and regulatory requirements, alongside our client's policies and procedures.

The role will also contribute to the development of the service by working collaboratively with Family Placement colleagues undertaking such activities as recruitment and training and supporting the wider Family Placement agenda.

Provide customised and focused Social Work support to our client's cohort of foster carers to ensure they provide a safe and secure environment for children/young people placed
Adhere at all times to relevant Safeguarding procedures and immediately reporting child protection concerns internally in line with our client's policy and when appropriate to external bodies
Maintain knowledge and understanding of and adhere at all times to all our client's policies and procedures, legislative requirements and relevant inspection bodies criteria
In accordance with our client's policies and procedures, assist senior management to address service complaints as and when required
The role will be working remotely with fortnightly office based team meetings.Ensuring the voice of children/young people and carers are represented in the service through engaging in and where appropriate lead in the delivery of participation and consultation activities
Delivering relevant training to our client's cohort of foster carers to the relevant standards on both a group and individual basis and provide feedback to enable training materials to be updated to remain relevant and effective
Providing feedback to enable the development of service policies and procedures or assist with service development projects in line with service business plans
Fostering

Court, Local Authority/Trust, regulatory bodies)
Participation and consultation events with carers, children & young people
Training delivery in both Group and Individual settings
a basic understanding of the welsh language is desirable

If you are interested in discussing the position further, please contact Ian Davies on (phone number removed) for a confidential discussion.
We are also able to source a particular role to suit your requirements, so whether you work with children or adults in any particular speciality, please get in touch to see how we can support you

Randstad Care acts as an employment business when supplying temporary staff and as an employment agency when introducing candidates for permanent employment with a client. Did you know that Randstad Care have been awarded a place on the National Clinical Staffing Framework for the NHS?