Fostering Social Worker - Westchurch House, Ashford
Role Responsibility
Fostering Social Worker – Kent Fostering Service KR9 / KR10
Location: Westchurch House, Ashford
Starting salary: £32,933 - £43,592 per annum depending on experience
Full-Time, Permanent role
The South Kent Fostering Support team now has a vacancy due to staff progression and retirement.
Kent Fostering has a clear vision for the increased recruitment of foster carers from the local community. It is our ambition to enhance our support offer to Kent Foster Carers and improve our retention, building their skills and knowledge to safeguard our children and achieve positive outcomes and placement stability for them. As part of a realignment within the service earlier this year, we are supporting carers who care for children with disabilities, so experience and knowledge in this area would be beneficial in this role, although it is not a requirement.
In this role, you will provide high-quality supervision, support, and training to foster carers and their families. You will work alongside the fostering assessment teams to recruit foster carers across the county.
You will be supporting foster carers to understand the meaning of their child’s behavior and to consider what might help to both manage the behavior and sustain the relationship with the foster child.
This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.
This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure application to the Disclosure and Barring Service and registration as a qualified Social Worker with Social Work England.
We are currently seeking to recruit 1 full-time position within the team.
Closing date: 21st February 2025
Interview date(s): 28th February 2025
For further information regarding this role, please contact:
Stacey Waters on 03000 422 081 or stacey.waters@kent.gov.uk
About the Company
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KCC is committed to building a workforce that reflects the diversity of the county’s working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds, faiths, and those with caring responsibilities, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.
Please note – if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.
Location: Westchurch House, Godfrey Walk, Ashford, United Kingdom
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