Qualified Social Worker Family & Friends Team

Full-time Permanent (37 hours per week)

Newly Qualified Social Worker SO2 £30,451 undertaking ASYE

Qualified Social Worker - PO2: £37,228 - £38,228 including market factor

Experienced Social Worker - PO3: £38,245 - £43,245 including market factor

We are looking for experienced and enthusiastic social workers to join our innovative and forward thinking Fostering Service. This additional post has been created to allow us to expand on our current success and in recognition that we are an ambitious and aspirational service. We are looking for social workers who share our vision about providing an outstanding level of support to all our foster carers.

Essential car user allowance, free on-site parking and full reimbursement of your annual Social Work England registration fee.

Do you aspire to work for an ‘Outstanding’ Local Authority?

Here at Telford and Wrekin Council, we have been judged to be outstanding overall in terms of effectiveness (the only Authority in the West Midlands with this judgement).

Here’s just some of the great things Ofsted had to say when they visited us recently:
• Children are cared for and cared about
• Social Workers and other staff who support children are very committed and they are exceptionally well trained
• Children are listened to and their experiences are well understood
• Senior Leaders aspire to a service for every child that they would welcome for their own
• Children benefit from a stable workforce which is highly committed and experienced
• Staff experience a wide range of development opportunities

We are well adapted to a hybrid model of working which includes a combination of time spent in the office and at home – our approach is to promote greater level of flexible working around personal and family commitments.

We have a great opportunity for a full time Family and Friends Social Worker (based in our Family and Friends Team). This busy team is very experienced, highly supportive, friendly and enthusiastic about what they do.

They work hard but also find time to celebrate achievements and good practice. The Family & Friends Team work closely and cooperatively with colleagues within the Family Placement Team, with social workers and managers from other Children’s Services, and with Legal Services. The work is interesting, often complex and challenging but is crucial to achieving placement stability and permanence.

Main accountabilities of the role:

• Viability assessments, often jointly with social workers for children/young people.
• Fostering assessments and presenting to Fostering Panel.
• Special guardianship assessments for court, in conjunction with social workers for children/young people.
• Supporting and supervising connected person foster carers.

There’s never been a more exciting time to join our service: alongside making a difference to the lives of individuals and families, we’re adopting exciting new strengths-based approaches and are passionate about delivering continuous service improvement. And our people are at the heart of this progress: that’s why from tailored in-house training to the West Midlands Teaching Partnership, we make sure they have access to the best development opportunities. If you share our passion for making a difference, we would be delighted if you joined us.

Telford & Wrekin Council values social work careers and believes in providing good quality experiences to social workers. We are committed to both you and to developing the future social work workforce. We have a robust supervision policy which is geared towards achieving positive outcomes for you as a worker and for the children and families we work with. You will have regular, quality supervision with your line manager.

Telford and Wrekin Council takes seriously the responsibility to safeguard and promote the welfare of all the children and young people entrusted to our care and it is our expectation that all staff will share this commitment. We will ensure continuous development and improvement of robust recruitment processes and procedures that promote a culture of safeguarding amongst our workforce. Completion of an enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check is a requirement for working with children and young people.

This post is covered by the Code of Practice on the English Language Fluency Duty for public sector workers.

As per Job Description

As per Job Description

Please note employees who are at risk will be considered first for this position. Only if an appointment is not made will other candidates be considered.

We are committed to equality and diversity. Posts working with children or vulnerable groups will be subject to an appropriate criminal records check.

Sorry but CVs will not be accepted.

For more information about working for Telford & Wrekin Children's Social Care, please view our recruitment page: https://www.telford.gov.uk/cscr

Please contact Jan Bright by emailing jan.bright@telford.gov.uk If you have any queries.

Supporting documents
Social Worker - Fostering Assessment Permanency Family and Friends and Support (1).docx