Job Title: Adult Senior Practitioner – Fostering Team
Location: Borth & Mid Devon
Rate: £40per hour
An exciting job role has recently become available at Borth & Mid Devon. They are looking for a new member for their Fostering Team.
As someone who knows what good foster care looks like, you will be responsible for ensuring high quality and timely assessments to provide high quality carers for our most vulnerable children in Devon. You will be working in a fast-paced and supportive environment.
Responsibilities include:
* Foster carer supervisions and ongoing support to carers
* Completion of high-quality carer annual reviews
* Unannounced visits to foster carers
* Attendance at meetings as required (e.g., child in care reviews, risk assessment meetings, etc.)
* Presenting to fostering panel as required
* Facilitating foster carer support groups
* Close work with childcare teams and other professionals to ensure the safety and wellbeing of children
About you:
Like us, you’ll be passionate about improving children’s life chances. As an experienced qualified social worker with energy and enthusiasm, you will be able to demonstrate success in managing complex situations. You will be committed to reflective practice and know how to energise, motivate, and challenge practitioners. You will have the ability to work to deadlines in a fast-paced and supportive environment. We are looking for people who are strong in partnership working, think creatively, and are ready to try new things.
* Knowledge of Eclipse computer system is an advantage – strong IT skills a must
* Full-clean license and access to a car – ability to travel as required
* Qualified social worker with up-to-date professional registration
Please note, travel and accommodation allowance is NOT available for this role.
What we are looking for in a Social Worker:
* Social Work England registration
* Eligible to work in the UK
* Hold a full UK licence
* Post-qualified experience
* Degree level or equivalent in Social Work
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:
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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