Social Worker - Fostering Team in Ilford, Essex

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Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Social Worker within the Fostering Team to work Full Time based in Redbridge.

The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £52,532per annum.

Main duties:

• Arrange and attend meetings related to the Foster Carer including Standards of Care Meetings.
• Remain child focussed at all times.
• Identify standards of care issues and report these to your management team.
• Attend supervision with line manager regularly keeping that person-informed of progress in assessments and any difficulties.
• Coordinate efforts to secure foster families for named children.
• Provide information of statistics and other performance indicators.
• Transport equipment to carers, as necessary.
• Maintain and use records and data, including electronic systems.
• Keep up to date with policies, legislation and procedures and ensure that they are followed.
• Write reports and correspondence.
• Receive referrals from the public, colleagues and agencies.
• Develop a relationship of trust and understanding with service users and colleagues.
• Maintain good standards of childcare practice and implement childcare legislation.
• Participate in Children and Families’ Service and Team duty systems.
• Assess capabilities, attitude and suitability of prospective Foster Carers, Connected Carers, and Special Guardians within the recommended timescales.
• Ensure prospective foster carers attend a medical and liaise with medical personnel about their medical suitability to act as foster carers/Special Guardians.
• Follow upon agency decisions in relation to fostering and special guardians.
• Attend LAC reviews for the children in placement with allocated Foster Carers.
• Liaise with and advise colleagues, as necessary in preparing children and young people for foster placements.
• Ensure that allocated Foster Carers paperwork is prepared for the Fostering Panel within every 3 years on earlier where there has been a standard of care or safeguarding concern or the fostering panel had requested this.
• Monitor progress of placements.
• Develop own specialist skills.
• Develop inter-agency working.
• Be smart and presentable at all times in compliance with the current dress code.
• Any other duties appropriate to this area of work and consistent with the level of the post, as may from time to time be required.

Requirements of this Social Worker role:

• A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Registered or eligible for registration.

Contact:
This Social Worker job is advertised by Stefan Garrett; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.

Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).

With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.

Voceer presents this job opportunity for Sanctuary Personnel, a 1000 person sized company who are categorized as a Recruitment Agency.

This position is being managed by Sanctuary Personnel, a reputable recruitment agency known for placing candidates in desirable positions.