We are looking for a qualified and SWE registered social worker to join our fostering service as a Supervising Social Worker - this role will be fixed term for 1 year.
Responsibilities will include the supervision and support of foster carers to promote increased capacity for in-house foster placements with a focus on quality of care. You will have a mixture of private fostering cases as well as a fostering support role.
The fostering service comprises of a team of 10 supervising social workers responsible for the supervision and development of foster carers, including connected person’s, family and friends carers and carers subject to Regulation 24 procedures, as well has private fostering cases.
The role will require practitioners who are skilled with a good understanding around the procedures and legislative context for fosterin
Previous fostering experience is welcome, but this opportunity is open to applications from social workers with limited fostering experience; provided they can demonstrate a firm understanding of the work at interview.
We’re a vibrant, dynamic, culturally rich London Borough with a young population and limitless potential. We’re a challenging yet rewarding place for social work practise to flourish and we are steadfastly committed to our workforce being representative of the families that we work with. We are taking coordinated, meaningful and focused action to develop an inclusive culture because we believe this is at the heart of enabling diversity in all respects, including diversity of thought. We are taking positive actions to challenge all forms of discrimination and injustice to help make Newham a fairer and more equitable place for children and families to live, learn and thrive.
We’re building a fairer Newham through investment, co-production and by continuously developing our 'Circles of Support' practice model; centring on systemic and restorative practice and a specialist support offer for our practitioners. Ofsted described Newham as having a positive culture of learning and development and we always try to develop talent in-house. We promoted 30 internal colleagues in 2023 alone, and have put more than 47 practitioners through further education since 2020. We value your development and at Newham career progression is a reality for many of our colleagues.
We understand that social work can be a challenging yet ultimately very rewarding profession that makes demands of you personally and professionally. In Newham we value your wellbeing and we aim to ensure that you have a better work/life balance through a remote working offer when you are not visiting children and families, a modern office space for when you’re on site, a flexible working policy where all requests are considered, and a clinical offer to support you to do your best work.
We’ve been working hard to make Newham a great place to practise social work:
