Job Title: Social Worker - Cared for Children Team
Location: Middlesbrough
Middlesbrough are seeking experienced and committed Social Workers to join their Cared for Children's teams. These teams work with children and young people currently in our care, supporting them and their families who have a plan to live outside of family care.
Responsibiltiies -
Recruitment and Assessment: You will be responsible for recruiting, assessing, and preparing prospective foster carers and connected carers. This includes completing in-depth Form F assessments and presenting them to the Fostering Panel.
Support and Supervision: You'll provide ongoing supervision and support to our approved foster carers, helping them navigate the challenges and rewards of caring for a child.
Case Management: You'll manage a complex caseload, ensuring all statutory requirements and regulations are met, and that records are maintained to a high standard.
Training and Development: You'll identify the training needs of carers and help them develop their skills to meet the unique needs of the children they care for.
Safeguarding: A key part of the role is to ensure the safety and well-being of all children in our care. You will work closely with other professionals and agencies to ensure effective safeguarding practices are in place.
They are looking for passionate individuals with a minimum of 3 years' experience in social work.
What Middlesbrough offer:
- Hybrid working arrangements
- Annual leave starting from 26 days, rising to 31 days after 5 years' service, plus paid bank holidays
- Employer pension contributions of 11.5%
- Death in service sum of 3.5 times your annual salary
- Paid absence for sickness of up to 6 months full and 6 months half pay
- Generous family-friendly policies and paid discretionary leave
- Relocation package up to £8,000
- Salary sacrifice schemes for electric cars and bikes, and discounts for high street stores
Join us and be part of a team dedicated to making a real difference in the lives of children and young people in Middlesbrough.
Apply now!
Randstad Care acts as an employment business when supplying temporary staff and as an employment agency when introducing candidates for permanent employment with a client. Randstad Care is an equal opportunities employer and decisions are made on merits alone.
Did you know that Randstad Care have been awarded a place on the National Clinical Staffing Framework for the NHS? This means we will be able to bring you more opportunities within nursing & midwifery and clinical staffing.
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