Central Bedfordshire Council are looking to recruit a social worker to support their Fostering Team. The contract will be for an initial 3-6 months with potential for extension subject to internal circumstance and performance.
Competitive rate of £37.60 per hour available.
Responsibilities:
1. To assess, and monitor the skills of foster carers to ensure that they provide a safe, healthy, nurturing and learning environment for children.
2. To work with carers to ensure that they fully understand their role, identify and capture their development needs on a personal development plan (PDP).
3. To provide support to carers to enable them to evidence level of competence against required training standards within timescales, and following an assessment, sign off each standard.
4. Provide and record regular supervision to allocated foster carers
5. Provide support based on evidence and best practice, which is tailored to meet individual child and the foster family and appropriate to the situation.
6. Provide written case notes and reports
7. Understand and recognise that children's safeguarding needs change, report concerns appropriately to your line manager in line with safeguarding policy and procedures
8. Carry out in-depth assessment of applicants including undertaking initial visits and carer assessments.
9. To contribute to Foster Carer Annual Reviews, within required timescales, providing written evidence of ...