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:
Do you have the right qualities to join a recently Ofsted rated ‘Good’ service and help us to become ‘Outstanding’?
If your answer is yes, then we would like to talk to you for this exciting part-time role.
Southwark’s Fostering service is one of the largest in London and as such we place great emphasis on staff recruitment and development to ensure we offer our Foster carers an effective level of support as required. The fostering service is an excellent place to develop your career in management, and work collaboratively with peers and Senior management in developing Leadership skills, alongside knowledge and access to training.
The teams within the Fostering service cover the range of short and long term fostering placements as well as Special Guardianship assessments and support. The management group work closely together whilst performing a wide range of duties that correspond to the team they manage. Managers and social workers are fully supported in their roles with access to relevant training and supervision.
Southwark use a Secure Base as a model of working with families and all social workers are trained in this method of working.
About you:
You will be a qualified Social Worker with significant experience of working with children and families. You will hold a recognised social work qualification together with demonstrable experience of professional leadership, holding accountability for the practice and development of
others.
You will bring evidence of continuing professional development in line with the Professional Capability Framework for Social Workers and Practice Supervisors, to include recent experience in a social work role within a statutory setting, working with children and families, and attendance to appropriate training.
Benefits and more information:
From flexible working to job sharing (where possible) we are committed to providing a healthy work life balance. You will benefit from 28 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), rising to 36 days with continuous service, a generous local government salary related pension, cycle to work and cycle loan scheme, season-ticket loan, confidential wellbeing and counselling support. For more information about the wide variety of benefits you can take advantage of please visit our Staff Benefits page.
Additional informaiton
A Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check is required at enhanced level.
Recruitment timetable
Closing date: Friday 23rd December 2022
Interview date: Thursday 12th January 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 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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