Job Description

We have a permanent and a Secondment/Fixed term opportunity for 12 months from start date.

This is a great opportunity to join an established team, who provide Wiltshire’s countywide Kinship and Fostering services in a trauma informed way and now is a great time to join us! We are transforming our services through our Fostering Excellence programme which involves investing in training, support, and financial assistance we offer our carers to provide stable homes for more children in the county.

And now is a great time to join us! We are transforming our services through our Fostering Excellence programme which involves investing in training, support, and financial assistance we offer our carers to provide stable homes for more children in the county.

We appreciate our staff and are proud that we offer our Social Workers and Support Workers in Kinship and Fostering training in DDP Level 1 and 2. Our foster carers receive specialist training in PACEwhich recognises trauma children have experienced and is a way of thinking, feeling, communicating and behaving that aims to make the child(ren) feel safe.

About the role

Our work includes:

• Carrying out full assessments of applicant’s and their family’s suitability to foster.
• Assessing special guardianship and connected persons and private fostering.
• Working collaboratively with colleagues and services, working towards improving the quality and stability of placements, ensuring they are well supported and that carers of all types have the skills and tools they need, whilst developing and expanding this provision
• Providing an ‘out of hours’ telephone support, (opportunity to earn extra money by joining the ‘paid’ rota)

Opportunities:

• Train to obtain Dyadic Developmental Practice (DDP) Level 1, with a possibility of DDP Level 2.
• Attend DDP led peer reflection groups
• Encouragement and support to further develop through involvement in other areas of work from across our service; working collaboratively with other areas of Children’s Services and professionals involved in the care planning process of a child’s life.

You will be joining an experienced, dedicated, passionate team of professionals who genuinely care about the service we provide and the impacts and outcomes for our children looked after.

We are building on our success as a ‘GOOD’ rated authority in Families and Children’s services to become ‘Outstanding’ and we would like you to join us on our journey!

Our Offer

• Working patterns to fit for your life and commitments. Apply for either full time (37 hours) or part time role (hours to be agreed). We also offer flexible working options from across Wiltshire including working from home and full-time hours over a compressed fortnight.
• Provide free parking in the locality of most of our hubs.
• Provide you with a laptop, so you can work flexibly from any location across the county and country enabling you to be more effective and flexible in your practice.
• We have a variety of progression opportunities; including Practice Educator training, CMI accredited leadership programmes and career paths into management, via our ASYE Development Manager and Assistant Team Manager roles.
• Enable you to use your experience to work innovatively with kinship carers and their families to ensure our children remain safe and well cared for.
• Locate you within an established and supportive team which includes support workers, child psychologists, ASYE’s, assessing and supervising social workers.
• We will provide monthly reflective supervision and management feedback in a culture of learning and development.
• You could benefit from our teaching partnership with Bournemouth University, as there are opportunities to further develop your research-based practice.
• We offer an attractive rewardsand relocation package, as well as the option to purchase additional holiday, use of a pool car scheme and free council parking within close proximity to Wiltshire Council offices. Consider a lifestyle change for the better!

As a SWE registered social worker you will possess extensive post qualification experience in children’s services. An analytical mind and ability to evidence knowledge and experience of undertaking complex assessment work. You will be in a role where a sound working knowledge of safeguarding is required.

You will have evidenced experience of professional and personal development and be looking to build upon this and further your career aspirations within an innovative and truly supportive environment.

This role will involve a mixture of home working and visits in the community, which can be discussed further at interview, as our requirements will vary, depending on the types of Kinship and Fostering social work service you are delivering.

This is a rolling advert, shortlisting and interviews will take place throughout the duration of the advert. The advert will close when all vacancies have been filled.

If you are an internal employee your substantive manager must agree to you transferring to the secondment role. This agreement must be sought in principle before applying for the seconded role. If the secondment will impact significantly on service delivery, your substantive manager may not agree to the secondment.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £38,592.00-£44,526.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Sick pay

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Trowbridge, Wiltshire: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Licence/Certification:

• Social Work England (required)

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 31/07/2023
Reference ID: CS02386

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