This is a new, developing team with a clear focus to provide support and permanence for the looked after children of Shropshire. The team’s aims are to identify, assess and support potential kinship foster carers through their journey of becoming approved foster carers, to obtaining Special Guardianship Orders where appropriate.
The successful candidate will primarily assess and carry a caseload of kinship foster carers with the long-term aim of supporting them to secure permanence through Special Guardianship.
The successful candidate will support and supervise carers as they move towards obtaining a Special Guardianship Order, providing permanence for Shropshire’s looked after children and young people. The role will also involve carrying out viability assessments, kinship fostering assessments and SGO assessments to court timescales.
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