Senior Supervising Social Worker

3 weeks ago

Chelmsford, Essex, United Kingdom Polaris Community Full time

About the Role:

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Supervising Social Worker to join our team at Foster Care Associates, part of the Polaris Community. As a Senior Supervising Social Worker, you will play a vital role in supporting foster parents and their families to achieve outstanding outcomes for children and young people in foster care.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Support foster parents and their families to achieve outstanding outcomes for children and young people in foster care.
  • 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 carers 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 e.g. respite, 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:

  • A Social Work qualification
  • Professional registration with Social Work England or equivalent
  • 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 extensively (including occasional nights away)
  • Confidence with transporting children and young people in sometimes stressful/difficult situations
  • Full driving licence

About Us:

Foster Care Associates 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've come a long way since our early days and, 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's underpinned by a series of values designed to help us assist children and young people to reach their full potential.

What We Offer:

We offer a competitive salary, company car or car allowance, 30 days' annual leave, rising to 35 days with length of service, plus bank holidays, life assurance, employee discount scheme and medical cash plan. We are an equal opportunities employer and have been awarded the disability confident employer by the jobcentre plus. The successful applicant will be subject to a DBS check at enhanced level if successful for the position.

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