About the Role:
The Fostering Service aims to provide high quality Foster Care placements where each child will have stability, secure and a warm, safe nurturing environment in which they can develop and thrive.
The service is committed to the aims of meeting the placement needs of current and future children looked after and care leavers. We support positive outcomes through understanding the assets and needs of our children looked after and care leaver population, current provision, and identify measures that need to be put in place to ensure that there is an appropriate range of provision to meet future projected need. In commitment of permanence and ambition to find the right placement for children looked after we aim to reduce the number of placements out of the borough and in residential care.
We strongly believe that family-based care in their own communities is usually the right option for children and young people whether that is with a special guardian, foster carer, or connected person and improves outcomes for our children and young people.
The position is within the Kinship Assessment Team, completing viability/Regulation 24 assessments and Form K.
 Key Responsibilities:
Support, Supervision and Training of Foster Carers
- Supervising Social Workers hold caseloads of 21-24 fostering households (25-40 children in placement)
Recruitment, Assessment and Approval of Recruited Foster Carers and Supported Lodging Hosts
- Assessing social worker hold responsibility for virtual recruitment, robust telephone calls, initial visits, pre-approval training, 4-6 fostering assessments and 1-5 newly approved carers.
Assessment and Approval of Connected Foster Carers Foster Carers and Special Guardians
- Social Workers hold 4-6Â full connected assessments; 3-5 Viability/Regulation 24 assessments, 7 connected carer and temporary approved connected carer households
 Requirements:
- Qualified Social Worker
- Must have knowledge of working within a Fostering Team
- Registered with Social Work England
- Eligible to work in the UK
 Interested?
For more information on this role or to apply, get in touch with our vendor department who will arrange for a specialist consultant to get in contact with you:
 0203 906 8670