Supervising Social Worker - Fostering

Liquid Personnel is looking for a Supervising Social Worker to join its client’s small and friendly Independent Fostering team based in Nottingham.

What will your responsibilities be?

In this role, you will supervise, manage, support, develop, recruit, and retain foster parents, ensuring they receive consistent guidance and professional development. As a Supervising Social Worker (SSW), you will provide high-level support to foster carers, enabling them to deliver the best possible outcomes for children and young people. You will promote compassionate relationships, safeguarding practices, and strength-based approaches that foster independence and wellbeing. The role requires effective communication, knowledge of relevant legislation and social work methodologies, and the ability to build constructive relationships with carers and colleagues.

Qualifications & Experience:

To be successful in this role you must have, 

• Three years post-qualification experience in a child care work team working in the areas of Family Support, Child Protection, and Looked After Children or Fostering and Adoption
• Knowledge of relevant legislation, regulations, and procedures, and the ability to use them
• Knowledge of social work methodologies and ability to use them
• Communication and presentation skills sufficient to convey convincing argument, both orally and in reports, to a high standard
• Ability to evaluate and reflect on own practice, and within written reports and ongoing recording.
• Ability to form and maintain constructive working relationships with colleagues within the agency and in other organisations
• Ability to develop and maintain professional, supportive relationships with a range of Foster Carers and their families
• Ability to prioritise and organise work and set out work to clear objectives
• A full driving licence
• To work as a team member, contributing to overall effectiveness by sharing knowledge, information, and skills
• Evidence of relevant ongoing post-qualifying training
• Experience working with a diverse service user group
• Knowledge of IT systems and applications for child care teamwork.

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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