Children & Families – Senior Social Worker

Job Category:   Social Care Qualified

Job location: County Hall, High Street, Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 1UD
United Kingdom
Isle of Wight Council
Hours per week: 37

Start date: Immediate start
Salary: £31.50 per hour

We are looking for x2 social workers to join our Fostering Team. 

Key Role & Responsibility of the Fostering Social Worker

• Providing support and advice to foster carers – mainstream and kinship carers (hybrid case work)
• They will keep in regular communication with the child’s SWs, the fostered child/ren, foster carers own children
• Make regular visits to the foster carers’ homes – announced and unannounced 
• Support with home finding for the children needing to come into care – alongside the placement team and CSW
• Assessing the services/support the foster carers will need to care for the fostered child.
• Providing regular supervision – this will include identifying training needs/opportunities.
• Ensuring the foster home meets all the development needs of the child/ren living with the carer
• Assessing and raising concerns whether there are safeguarding and/or standards of care matters.
• Write foster carers annual reviews. 
• Attend appropriate meetings – the fostered child’s Reviews Meetings , Support/Stability Meetings and any other as appropriate (PEPs)
• Attend Foster Panel as required.
• Cover day time duty rota
• Ensure DBS, Health Assessments, Safer Caring Policy  and other related household checks are in place is in place and the Foster Carer Agreement is updated.
• Ensuring that the foster carer is working to and meeting all the National Minimum Fostering Standards (NMS) in their practice

There is a hybrid working arrangement in place where the Team have access to their office space 3 days a week with one day mandatory in the office which is currently on Wednesdays to attend team/service meetings.