Job Title: Supervising Social Worker - Norfolk - £33/hour
Location: Norfolk
Pay Rate: £33/hour
Liquid Personnel is currently recruiting for an Adult Social Worker to join a Hospital Team based in Wiltshire Council.
The role of a supervising social worker involves a range of responsibilities, including supervising foster carers, addressing safeguarding concerns, and providing emotional and practical support to foster families. Additionally, they play a key role in recruiting foster carers, conducting assessments, and providing training before children are placed in care. If this role interests you, it might be worth considering a career as a supervising social worker!
What will your responsibilities be?
Maintaining Communication Supervising social workers ensure consistent communication among foster families, social workers, and the foster children. They conduct regular home visits, make phone calls, and keep all parties informed throughout the placement.
Arranging Support Services They coordinate additional support for children, such as therapy or learning assistance, whenever necessary.
Day-to-Day Assistance Supporting foster carers with meetings, report writing, and record-keeping is integral to their role. They also monitor each child's progress in their placement and conduct required statutory visits.
Facilitating Birth Family Connections Supervising social workers help manage and maintain contact between children and their birth families when appropriate, and support foster carers in handling the emotions tied to these interactions.
Identifying Training Opportunities They assess foster carers' needs for further training, guiding them to enhance their skills, achieve personal goals, and meet high standards of careQualifications and Experience:
To be successful in this role you must have Social Work England registration, be eligible to work in the UK, hold a qualification in Social Work at degree level, and have post-qualified experience.
Why Liquid Personnel?
* New 'Faster Pay' service getting you paid more quickly
* Twice weekly payroll
* Free DBS and compliance service
* Access to exclusive roles that aren't available from other agencies
* Free access to Liquid's exclusive social work training and CPD portal
* Your own dedicated consultant with extensive social work knowledge
* Access to a wide selection of social work positions across the UK
* "Refer a Friend" bonus - get £500 for each social worker you refer who we successfully place*
* "Find your own job" bonus - get £250 for bringing your own position to us *
Liquid Personnel is an equal opportunities employer. Liquid Personnel Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. * Terms and conditions apply to our bonus schemes.
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 by contacting our team. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.
We are unable to support or accept applications from candidates who are residents within the Red or Amber list of the Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England, based on the World Health Organisation (WHO) Workforce Support and Safeguard List.
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