Supervising Social Worker - Kinship Service - Manchester City Council - £35ph!
In Manchester we are on an ambitious journey to raise the aspirations and experience of our children and young people in family based care. We are looking for individuals who are skilled in this area and committed to achieving great outcomes for our children.
We have a vacancy for a Supervising Social Worker on our Kinship Hub service at Manchester City Council. In our service, we have three friendly and supportive teams in the Kinship Hub who complete the tasks of assessing and supervising kinship foster carers. We have a flexible working system for working from out office based in Wythenshawe, and home working; you would be expected to be in the office two days of the week in between part of your visits to your carers. With the exception during your allocated teams duty week (every 3 weeks) where being office based is required.
Responsibilities:
- Providing support and supervision to kinship foster carers
- Completing Form C Assessments
- Initial screenings/Reg 24's and assessing prospective kinship foster carers
- Completing SGO (Special Guardianship Orders)
- Facilitating support groups
- Supporting training for our kinship foster carers
To be considered for the Social Worker role:
- Experience of completing Form C assessments, SGO's, and supervising foster carers
- A Diploma/Degree in social work
- Registration with SWE
Benefits of working with Remedy as a Qualified Social Worker
- A personal one-one service from your highly experienced dedicated consultant.
- Top tier supplier to numerous local authorities throughout the UK giving us access to jobs before other agencies.
- Option to be paid on either Wednesday or Friday.
- Terms & Conditions apply
You will be required to fully register with Remedy for all locum positions.
Remedy Social Care is a APSCo Standard agency and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the vulnerable. Successful applicants will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the DBS. Our objective is to be an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from everyone with suitable skills and ability regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, gender, disability, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief. All applications will be accepted and reviewed solely on merit.