Social Worker

3 days ago

Cardiff, Cardiff, United Kingdom Foster Care Associates Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly motivated and enthusiastic Newly Qualified Social Worker to join our inspirational and friendly team to develop and promote the fostering services in Cymru South. Our office is based in Bridgend, and we support the hybrid model of working with lots of flexibility to work from home.

Key Responsibilities
  • Support foster parents and their families to achieve outstanding outcomes for all children and young people in foster care.
  • Support and monitor the continued suitability and competence of Foster parents ensuring they provide a safe, healthy, nurturing and learning environment for children/young people.
  • Ensure that foster parents fully understand the fostering task, competencies to be achieved and the standards expected, including complaints and representation procedures as detailed in the FCA policies and procedures.
  • Provide and record regular supervision to allocated foster parents in line with FCA's Operational Standards.
  • Work in partnership in a team parenting approach to help identify any needs within the foster family, activities, therapy, holidays, with all members of the child's network, including contributing to all relevant meetings and any other tasks defined.
  • Ensure each child and foster parent are fully compliant in respect of all key documentation.
  • Attend meetings and/or provide reports for Commissioning Teams to address individual packages of care.
  • Promote participation of children/young people in the development of the agency and in accessing resources and opportunities in their local community.
  • Participate in an 'out of hours' support service on a rota basis.
  • Participate in day 'duty system' on a rota basis supporting referrals team.
  • Undertake occasional initial home visits and Form F Assessments.
Requirements
  • Professional registration with Social Care Wales.
  • Proven ability to produce a high standard of report writing.
  • A comprehensive working knowledge of relevant legislation and child safeguarding procedures.
  • The willingness and ability to travel to visit foster parents and children.
  • Confidence with transporting children and young people in sometimes stressful/difficult situations.
  • Full driving licence.
  • Degree or equivalent in social work.
About Us

Foster Care Associates (FCA) is an established fostering agency which forms part of the Polaris Community - one of the UK's largest leading communities of children's service providers. We have come a long way since those early days. Over the years, FCA has built a strong reputation for excellence, and now offers a wide range of services to children and families. But our purpose remains the same; 'to make a positive and lasting difference for children, families and communities', and it is underpinned by a series of values designed to help us assist children and young people to reach their full potential.

As a member of our brilliant friendly team, you will be a part of one of the country's largest and most experienced independent fostering agencies. Just because we are large, does not mean we are impersonal. At FCA we are one big family, and we are committed to supporting every single child and foster parent, every single minute of the day.

Benefits
  • Wellbeing Strategy - We are committed to the wellbeing of our all staff. We have a Staff wellbeing strategy, the purpose is to increase well-being, self-esteem, a sense of belonging to a team and to create new environments for them to spend productive time together.
  • Robust Induction, Supportive Management Team, Monthly Reflective Supervisions, regular learning and reflective opportunities with the Social Work team.
  • Company Car or £, Car Allowance, days' Annual Leave (rising to days on length of service) + Bank Holidays, Company Pension Scheme, Free On-site Parking, Life Assurance, Employee Discount Scheme, Medical Cash Plan, Optician allowance £ annually, Refer a friend scheme with a monetary incentive, Opportunity to complete Form F's for additional payments, an exceptional in-house platform available for online and face to training opportunities, opportunity to complete Practice Assessor Award, OOH service (Additional payment to Social workers for undertaking evening and weekend OOH duty service).

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