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Shropshire Council,
An exciting opportunity has arisen for one full-time qualified Social Worker in the Kinship Assessment Team, Children's Placement Service, based in Shrewsbury.
About the Role
This is an established team with a clear focus to provide support and permanence for the looked after children of Shropshire. The team’s aims are to identify, assess and support potential kinship foster carers through their journey of becoming approved foster carers, to obtaining Special Guardianship Orders where appropriate.
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Key Responsibilities
- The successful candidate will primarily carry a caseload of kinship foster carers within assessment.
- Support carers as they move towards obtaining a Special Guardianship Order.
- Provide permanence for Shropshire’s looked after children and young people.
- Assess, support and supervise carers.
- Carry out viability assessments, kinship fostering assessments, and SGO assessments to court timescales.
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