Directorate: People Services
Hours: 18.5 hours a week
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Council House, Derby
Are you a confident, competent Social Worker with a sound appreciation of the needs of Children in care?
Are you committed to providing high quality support to our foster carers?
Are you child-focused and passionate about Strengths Based Practice?
Do you have the skills, experience and enthusiasm to join our exciting and progressive fostering service in Derby City?
Do you have experience and confidence in understanding and managing safe care for our vulnerable children?
If so, we would like you to join our team?
We are looking to recruit a part time Supervising Social Worker within the Fostering Support Team.
Casework responsibility will include ongoing support of our foster carers and supported lodgings hosts, and occasionally you may be asked to complete mainstream and supported lodgings assessments.
The Role includes:
– Supervising and Supporting foster carers enabling them to continue to meet the National Minimum Standards.
– Supervising and Supporting our Supported Lodgings hosts.
– Producing and presenting high quality, analytical annual review assessments of mainstream applicants or Supported Lodgings hosts, to evidence their ability to continue to care.
– Adhering to principals of electronic recording and demonstrate necessary IT skills.
– Working alongside other professionals within the team around the child, contributing to the best outcomes for children in care and ensuring the voice of the child is heard.
– Contributing to placement sufficiency and working with carers and other professionals to ensure placement stability.
– Working with carers in a therapeutic and creative way to offer packages of support to maintain placements with traumatized children.
– Supporting the provision of Skills to Foster Training.
– Offering flexible support to our foster carers, including taking part in the Out of Hours rota.
– Helping to run training, support groups and activities which can take place at evenings and weekends, in order to provide the best support to our foster carers.
If you feel you meet the above requirements, we would welcome your application.
If you are interested and would like an informal conversation, please call Nicola Crosbie on 07920 750408 or email Nicola.crosbie@derby.gov.uk.
Next Steps
If you would like to apply for this vacancy, please submit an application via the Derby City Council website.
The closing date for this vacancy is at midnight on 19 February 2025. Any applications received after the closing date will not be accepted.
Interviews will be held: 7 March 2025
Important Information
Links to the full Job Description and Person Specification are below.
As part of our safer recruitment checks the successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.
All employees will normally be appointed to the minimum of the grade for the job.
Before you complete your application form please read our guidance on filling in your application form.
Remember to align your personal statement to the essential criteria in the Person Specification.
Please be aware that where there are colleagues within the organisation who are ‘at risk’ of redundancy, requirements to redeploy to another suitable role will apply and take priority.
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
We are a fair and inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds. We recruit for diversity and value difference. As many of our roles can now be home-based, we are able to offer more opportunities for people who need this facility.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you are a disabled person, you have the choice to apply under our Guaranteed Interview Scheme so long as you demonstrate that you meet the essential requirements for the job.
We feel it is essential that we recruit a talented workforce that is as diverse as the community we work for.
Please let us know of any individual requirements or reasonable adjustments you may have during the application, interview, or onboarding process and we’ll do all we can to help. We strongly believe in social understanding of disability and for us it’s all about removing barriers to equality.
If you have any questions regarding this vacancy or are having difficulty applying, please contact our Recruitment Team on 01332 640844 (Relay UK – 18001 01332 640 844) or at recruitmentteam@derby.gov.uk. https://www.derby.gov.uk/signing-service/
