Job Description

Job Title: Social Worker - Fostering
Location: Dorset
Rate: 38 per hour

An exciting job role has recently become available for a qualified Social Worker to join a dynamic Fostering team based in Dorset.

What will your responsibilities be?
In this role, you will provide regular supervision and support to foster carers, ensuring they meet the needs of the children in their care. You will conduct assessments of potential foster carers and participate in the approval process. Additionally, you will organise and deliver training sessions for foster carers to enhance their skills and knowledge. Managing a caseload of foster families, you will ensure compliance with policies and regulations. You will conduct regular home visits to monitor the well-being of children and provide guidance to foster carers. During crises, you will offer support and intervention to ensure the safety and stability of placements. Maintaining accurate and up-to-date records of all interactions and interventions will be crucial. You will work closely with other professionals, including social workers, therapists, and educators, to provide comprehensive support. Advocating for the needs and rights of children and foster carers within the system will be a key part of your responsibilities. Finally, you will ensure all foster care activities comply with relevant legislation, policies, and standards.

Benefits of the role:

• Hybrid working
• Supportive team to work in
• Laptop and training provided
• Low case load

Qualifications and Experiences:
To be successful in this role you must have Social Work England registration, be eligible to work in the UK, hold a qualification in Social Work at degree level, and have post-qualified experience.

How to apply?
If this is a job for you, feel free to click apply below or if you want to learn more about it, please contact Mohammed Majeed on (phone number removed).

Why Liquid Personnel?

• New 'Faster Pay' service getting you paid more quickly
• Twice weekly payroll
• Free DBS and compliance service
• Access to exclusive roles that aren't available from other agencies
• Free access to Liquid's exclusive social work training and CPD portal
• Your own dedicated consultant with extensive social work knowledge
• Access to a wide selection of social work positions across the UK
• "Refer a Friend" bonus - get 500 for each social worker you refer who we successfully place
• "Find your own job" bonus - get 250 for bringing your own position to us

Liquid Personnel is an equal opportunities employer. Liquid Personnel Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. Terms and conditions apply to our bonus schemes.

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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