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 and responding promptly to allegations.
About Us
We are the largest local authority social landlord in London, managing 55,000 homes lived in by 40% of Southwark’s residents. We are home to over 18,300 businesses including iconic London venues and social enterprises and we have a young, diverse and growing population.
At Southwark we are committed to making our borough just and fair and are taking positive action to tackle inequalities. Our residents and communities are our greatest asset and the passion we have for Southwark is shared by millions of Londoners who enjoy our outstanding cultural offer, use our hospitals and attend our universities. Our refreshed borough plan and focus on Southwark Stands Together, (which is our work with Southwark’s communities and the council’s staff to tackle racism, injustice and inequality) underpins all that we do.
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.
Additional Information:
- This is a permanent full time position
- Standard 36 hours Monday to Friday
- An enhanced DBS check will be required
For an informal discussion about the role please email Khalil Campbell, Service Manager, Fostering - Children's &Adults on khalil.campbell@southwark.gov.uk
Additional salary details
Benefits and more information:
In your role, we want you to feel supported, challenged and rewarded. You will benefit from our family-friendly policies including flexible working, home working, and a local government pension scheme, plus many other staff benefits.
- You will join a motivated, driven and supportive team that strives for excellence and values its members.
- You will also be part of a successful and high-achieving development team that is making a real difference to the lives of residents in the borough.
For more information about the wide variety of benefits you can take advantage of please visit our Staff Benefits page.
Recruitment Timetable
Advert Closing Date: 11.59pm on the 30th August 2023
Interview Date: 19th September
Guaranteed Interview Scheme
As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the below criteria:
- Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
- Are currently in care, or have previously been in care
- If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition
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 programme. 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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