Supervising Social Worker

4 weeks ago

Wallington, United Kingdom Ascent Fostering Agency Full time

Ascent Fostering is a therapeutic fostering agency, which has been a awarded an Ofsted Outstanding. We work with children who have attachment issues and have experienced early life trauma. Ascent is a fun place to work and is a learning organisation. weseek a social worker or senior worker who marries with our values and has the creativity and drive to support children and families well.

Purpose
- To recruit, assess, train, supervise & support, and review a range of foster carers.
- To ensure that national Childcare Legislation, fostering standards (2002 and 2011), regulations, schedules, formal notifications to Ofsted are adhered to in respect of the provision of Fostering Services, Private Fostering, short breaks family and Friends(connected persons)
- To manage a mixed caseload of foster carers, short breaks carers, ensuring an effective and efficient deployment of services and resources to safeguard and promote the welfare of children in care and in alternative arrangements.

To work in partnership with the Local authority social work teams and to fully enact and facilitate Care Plans for children in placement

**Key Tasks**

**Tasks specific to this post**:
The following tasks are indicative of those that may be expected from the post holder and are not a complete list of those that a post holder may undertake. Furthermore, if the demands of the agency require it, the post holder may be required to fulfil arange of agency related tasks.

"This organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment."

**General duties**:

- To manage a mixed caseload of foster carers involved with fostering, short breaks and alternative care arrangements to meet the placement needs and outcomes for children placed in their care.
- To supervise mentors and or social work assistants as required.
- To undertake assessments of prospective and existing foster carers in order to determine their suitability for approval or continued approval as carers.
- To accurately record and keep up-to-date information using the appropriate IT and Information systems, in accordance with the Council’s policy and Procedures.
- To undertake duty tasks as part of the Ascent Fostering rota as directed by the Managers
- To work out of hours as agreed.
- To promote standards which achieve equality of opportunity
- To adhere to all relevant Policies & Procedures and fostering guidance.

**Work in partnership with the managers and key professionals to ensure that**:

- Foster carers are able to keep safe, children and young people who are in need of protection from abuse, neglect, exploitation or significant harm.
- Foster carers and the "looked after" children and young people placed with them, receive tailored, personalised support that improves the outcomes for them.
- Foster carers prepare children and young people placed with them and work with birth families, where there is a plan for rehabilitation home with their families or carers.
- Effective and constructive relationships with children, young people, their carer’s and their families, and partner agencies are promoted.
- Foster carer’s agreements, placement agreements, support plans and Safe Care policies are relevant, monitored and reviewed.
- Risk is effectively assessed and managed and that appropriate plans for each child or young person are in place and reviewed according to the needs of the child or young person.

**Recruitment and Assessment of Foster Carers**:

- To participate in campaigns to recruit foster carers
- To respond to inquiries from the public in relation to becoming a foster carers
- To attend and participate in recruitment campaigns for foster carers on a planned rota basis through the year on evening and weekends.
- To visit prospective foster carers
- To directly participate in the planning and delivery of training to prospective foster carers on a planned rota basis, evening and weekends.

**Consultation, Support, Feedback, Complaints & Representations**:

- To contribute to, participate in the planning and delivery of support groups for a range of foster carers and alterative carers
- To directly contribute to the planning and delivery of major fostering events e.g., Annual Foster carers dinner.
- To support consultation processes with Foster carer and children placed in foster carers and other alternative care arrangements.
- To provide information to respond to complaints and representations and where appropriate to attend specific meetings e.g. Mediation, complaints interviews, formal attendance to IRM panels.

**Service Quality, Audit, and Inspection**:

- To contribute to and directly maintain and improve service quality, maintenance of all records to ensure that the National Minimum Standards Fostering services 2011 are complied with.

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