Together Trust
Senior Supervising Social Worker
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About the Role
Have you ever wanted to make a difference to the lives of children in need of foster care?
The Together Trust Fostering Service places children with foster families of all shapes and sizes across the North West of England. These foster families provide safe, secure, and caring homes to children and young people.
As one of the UK's best employers, we are looking for a dedicated, proactive, and experienced Senior Practitioner/Supervising Social Worker.
Responsibilities
- To work in line with current fostering legislation, regulations, and guidance relating to the recruitment, assessment, approval, training, support, supervision, and review of foster carers.
- To manage, support, and supervise approved Together Trust foster carers.
- To provide ongoing supervision, support, and reviews for foster carers, including facilitating support groups, reflective practice, and training where required.
- To receive, process, and progress referrals for children and young people, liaising with local authorities, and supporting appropriate matching as directed by the Registered Fostering Manager.
- To contribute to the development of a high-quality, flexible, and effective service, taking lead responsibility for agreed areas of service development.
- To develop, facilitate, and deliver training for prospective and approved foster carers, and participate in relevant professional development opportunities.
- To deputise at meetings and undertake specific tasks as required by the Registered Fostering Manager.
- To undertake independent and complex assessment work commissioned by external agencies, as directed by the relevant Manager.
- To supervise staff and students as allocated by the Registered Manager.
- To undertake any other duties required to support the ongoing development of the service.
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Location
- Working across Lancashire & Greater Manchester
Hours
- 37.5 hours - Full Time
Salary
- £43,150 per annum (£22.25ph)
Benefits
- Full driving licence and access to a vehicle, mileage will be paid at £0.45 per mile.
- Annual Leave: 27-day holiday plus 8 days bank holidays rising to 30 after 5 years, 33 days after 10 years.
- Generous pension scheme and death in service benefit, up to 7% company pension contributions initially rising with length of service and up to 6 x basic salary death in service benefit.
- Occupational sick pay and family-friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoptive leave.
- Reward and Discount platform offering discounts at high street shops, travel, insurances, etc.
- Eligibility to apply for Blue Light card.
- Proud to be a real living wage employer.
- Refer a friend scheme, be rewarded for recommending a friend to work with us.
- Comprehensive training and development opportunities, including apprenticeship qualifications.
- Long service awards including cash gifts and extra holiday.
- Promotion of Wellbeing across the organisation including Mental Health First Aiders offering wellbeing support from trained colleagues and free weekly yoga sessions in person or online.
- Access to our Employee Assistance Programme for you and adults at your home.
About You
- Professional Social Work qualification (CQSW, DipSW, or Social Work Degree).
- Registered with Social Work England.
- Relevant experience in fostering in IFA’s, local authority, or related social work settings.
- Skills in the assessment, supervision, and support of foster families.
- Ability to work reflectively and continuously develop practice.
- Ability to work within agreed boundaries while exercising professional judgement.
- Strong knowledge of relevant legislation, regulations, and guidance.
- Understanding of social work values and principles.
- Strong written, verbal, and non-verbal communication skills.
- Ability to prioritise workloads and perform effectively under pressure.
- Flexible and adaptable, with the ability to support change and service development.
- Self-motivated with strong organisational and time management skills.
- Commitment to continuous professional development.
- Flexible to work occasional evenings and weekends as required.
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Application
We may remove this advert should we find the successful candidate prior to the closing date, therefore early applications are encouraged.
Safeguarding checks will be undertaken for the successful candidate in line with our safer recruitment policy, including an Enhanced DBS check (at no cost to yourself).
Applications are very welcome from all regardless of age, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief, race, sex, sexual orientation, trans status, or socio-economic background. We are committed to making reasonable adjustments for disabled people. We positively encourage applications from those with lived experience.
If there is any part of your lived experience, you want to keep confidential in some way, please talk to the Recruitment or HR shared service teams, and we will do what we can to support you.
The Together Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the people we support and expects all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
This role will involve regulated activity.
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