Supervising social worker - Short Term Therapeutic Fostering
Teddar Limited
Supervising social worker - Short Term Therapeutic Fostering
£54080
Teddar Limited, Ipswich
- Full time
- Temporary
- Onsite working
Posted 1 week ago, 18 May | Get your application in now before you miss out!
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: f1c1bb7037904ee79430d4144af0b833
Full Job Description
- To act as a catalyst for change working directly alongside children, young people, and their families.
- Work directly with children, young people and families using the Suffolk Signs of Safety and Wellbeing framework.
- Where required by the role, to act as Lead Professional for named families, being the key contact with the family and liaising with other professionals to provide a joined-up response
- Use Suffolk signs of safety principles, disciplines, and tools.
- Where required, to participate in CAF, multi-agency assessment, Statutory Assessment, and other relevant assessment processes.
- To work alongside children, young people, parents and families where there are early signs of social, emotional, health or behavioural issues to bring about sustainable improvement.
- Where required by role, take responsibility for managing cases and holding appropriate levels of risk, overseeing the input of support workers were involved.
- Work within the service guidelines, statutory guidance, and legal frameworks.
- To respond to needs identified with the family by identifying and delivering evidence-based interventions as required.
- To work with families with complex problems where statutory intervention is required under the guidance of senior Social Worker, Lead Professional or Health Colleagues as appropriate.
- Engage in individual and group supervision with managers and practice leads.
- Where the role requires, to mentor and/or supervise junior colleagues or students and facilitate individual and group supervision with team members.
- To maintain up to date records and data using electronic devices and systems as directed and to provide reports as required.
- To contribute to ensuring successful completion of Quality Assurance processes within team.
- Actively build relationships and networks with other professional groups and services in the locality.
- To identify risk and safeguarding concerns and escalate immediately where appropriate.
- To undertake other tasks allocated by manager or senior colleagues, in keeping with the responsibilities of the grade:
- Work in accordance with the Council's statutory responsibilities, policies and service procedures and comply with equality and diversity policies, procedures and legislation.
- Maintaining customer confidentiality in accordance with the Data Protection Act and SCC guidance.
- Participate in performance appraisal and consultation with team managers as required.
- Having regard to best value principles as part of daily practice.
- Participating in training and development opportunities, in order to improve personal knowledge, skills and effectiveness.
- To transport children and young people where required by job role.
- To work in the homes of children and families and in a variety of other settings
- To work in the homes of children and families and in a variety of other settings.
- Be expected to use their experience, knowledge and skills in every engagement with children, young people and families to determine the level of intervention required.
- Where required by role, take responsibility for managing cases and holding risk.
- Offer face to face, telephone and written support and information as appropriate to role.
- Be responsible for keeping accurate and timely records of work with children, young people and families and writing relevant reports using electronic or other systems as directed.
- Be responsible for recognising and appropriately responding to safeguarding and risk issues.
- Have access to a line manager for decisions that fall outside their delegated responsibilities.
- Be required to organise their own workload.
- Work with a specialist team of Social Workers and Practitioners to deliver a high-quality service to Suffolk Foster carers
- Providing statutory supervision and support to foster carers
- Facilitate support groups and learning opportunities for foster carers
- Receive regular reflective supervision and peer group supervision
- Contribute creative and innovative ideas to improve practice in a well established and supportive team.
- Work closely with the Therapeutic team to promote trauma informed care and attachment training, alongside our Therapeutic social workers and our Clinicians to support children and carers in their placements.
- Work in partnership with the Placements team to match and place children needing foster placements and ensuring maximum use of in-house foster care placements.
- Work alongside childcare professionals to support children in their foster placements with regular communication and attendance at meetings.
- Undertake annual reviews and all statutory checks on fostering households within expected timescales - (required by Fostering Standards Regulations and guidance)
- Providing good quality, thorough and analytical recording and reports.
- Supporting carers to move children on to adoptive families
Be curious about and able to work within a therapeutic framework, you must be highly self-reflective and able to model this with the foster carers you are working with. - Do you have Experience of using Suffolk Signs of Safety and Wellbeing principles, disciplines and tools?
- social work: 1 year (preferred)
- Evidence of continuing professional development (preferred)
- Enhanced DBS or ability to pass Enhanced DBS (preferred)
Typical responsibilities of a role at this level
Assessment, Planning and Review
Effective Practice
Reporting and Accurate Recording
Information, Advice and Signposting
· To provide information and signposting for children, young people, and families to relevant universal and specialist services in the local area and beyond where appropriate.
Multi-Agency and Partnership Working
Managing Risk and Safeguarding
Autonomy
The practitioner will:
Identify problems, resolve where appropriate and escalate to senior colleagues
About the team
Adoption and Fostering service; Short Term and Therapeutic Fostering Team (STF) - The purpose of the STF team and this social work role is about supporting and supervising foster carers to achieve the best for children in their care, so that they can grow up to be the best that they can be.
The team supervises fostering households offering short term, emergency, short break, and permanent foster placements supervises and supports fostering households offering short term, emergency, short break, and permanent foster placements ensuring the needs of Children in Care are promoted effectively through their foster carers. We also work in partnership with the Central Resource Service to match and place children needing foster placements, ensuring maximum use of in-house foster care placements. The Short Term team works closely with Suffolk's Therapeutic Fostering Team.
This social work post will contribute by providing a holistic service to Fostering Families and the children in their care
What you will be expected to deliver in the role
In this social work post, you will
Specialist knowledge skills and experience
1. Ability to use initiative within boundaries of the role.
2. Ability to effectively apply solution focused approaches to deliver successful outcomes.
3. Ability to clarify risks and concerns and focus on solutions to create a climate in which change can happen.
4. Knowledge of relevant legislation, regulations and guidance as appropriate to role
5. Ability to recognise and act on Child Protection and risk issues and escalate as appropriate.
6. Demonstrating knowledge and application of the early intervention and preventative agenda.
7. Knowledge of associated agencies and their working practices and roles.
8. Ability to use a range of assessment frameworks
9. In depth knowledge of the social and emotional factors that affect a child's capacity to learn and develop.
10. Understanding the diverse range of needs of clients and backgrounds.
11. Well-developed interpersonal and communication skills in order to:
12. Engage effectively with a range of audiences including professional stakeholders.
13. Negotiate, influence and mediate to achieve positive outcomes and support and motivate children, young people and families.
14. Effectively manage challenging or sensitive situations and provide appropriate advice and facilitation to de-escalate.
15. Proven ability to make constructive contribution to meetings and negotiate with a range of stakeholders, settings and contexts.
16. Sensitivity to disability, sexuality, gender and ethnicity issues.
17. Ability to keep accurate and timely records and compile reports in a variety of formats, using appropriate IT.
18. Demonstrates awareness of the importance of using plain language and the ability to do so.
19. Relevant experience of working directly with children, young people and their families, as relevant to the specific client groups.
20. Experience of collaborative work with families.
21. Evidence of using solution focused approaches in practice.
Qualifications and professional memberships
1. Suitable qualification at graduate level or equivalent experience in a relevant area of work.
2. Evidence of continuing professional development.
3. DBS check
4. Evidence of successfully working alone as well as part of a team,
Experience:
Licence/Certification: