Reference:
Social Worker
Grade:
Social Care
Salary:
£299 to £300 Per Day
Town/City:
Ipswich, Suffolk
Contract Type:
Contract
Supervising Social Worker, Fostering Therapeutic Team
In this social work post, you will
- 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
- Supporting foster carers to take full responsibly for their ongoing professional development
- Facilitating support groups and other learning opportunities for foster carers.
- Participating in monthly ‘reflective supervision’ as well as individual supervision.
- Facilitate and offer therapeutic support to Foster Carers and children
- 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
- Work in partnership with the Senior Clinicians across Camhs Connect and STF
- Facilitate and develop training opportunities for carers.
- Undertake Video Interactive Guidance work with Foster Carers.
- Facilitate Foster Carers support groups.
- Contribute to the support for 2 Mockingbird hubs.
- Lead on arranging activities for Fostering Families; Beach hut days, activity days at Thorpe Woodlands, Christmas Parties
