The role
About Southwark:
Southwark is a large, ambitious and progressive council with a ‘can do’ attitude and enviable reputation. As a Council, we are successful, passionate and forward-thinking. We are committed to our ‘Fairer Futures for All’ promise which ensures that our residents and businesses are central to everything we do. If you want to make a difference at a local level, apply to Southwark Council today.
The Role:
We are recruiting Social Workers to join our vibrant Fostering and Kinship Care Service. We have two fostering teams plus the Special Guardianship and connected carers team within our service. This role is based in either of our fostering teams including short and long term placements.
Support offered includes:
- Low caseload
- Regular supervision with line manager (providing opportunity for reflection and learning).
- Group supervision to reflect on case dilemmas with the team and clinical practitioner support
- Access to in-house and bespoke training
- Regular service development days
- Community events and specific team away days
- Voluntary paid out of hours duty work
Within this role, you will work with kinship and SGO carers supporting them to offer stable homely environments and meet the needs of looked after children in their care. This will include regular visits and proactive support and reflection regarding children’s presentation and behaviours linking to attachment, secure base and trauma related theory. You will provide support, guidance and assistance whilst assessing their capacity to care and completing annual reviews, ensuring health and DBs checks are up to date alongside attending children’s professional’s meetings and reviews. You will assess their support network and potentially back up carers as well as the need for respite and enhanced packages where necessary to support the placement.
There is also a Safeguarding function within the service, which includes assessing and investigating risk within homes.
About you:
As a social worker you will be key in ensuring the welfare and assessed needs of those whom we support making sure they are managed in a safe and inclusive way. We are looking for enthusiastic, passionate and motivated social workers to join our service. You will adopt a strength-based, person centred approach to your work and be able to balance challenging demands whilst growing and developing in your practice.
Recruitment timetable
Advert Closing Date:17/11/2022
Shortlisting Date: 21/11/2022
Interview Dates: 29/11/2022
We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together initiative. We particularly welcome applications from members of the black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.
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