Fostering Panel Advisor – Family & Friends – Children Services – Croydon Council
Salary: Grade 16 £57,201 - £59,328
Permanent – 36 hours per week
Hybrid working
Job Purpose
To act as agency panel advisor to the Fostering Panel and support Agency Decision Making Process, quality assure reports presented to panels as well as non-panel annual reviews. To provide communication and liaison between panels and the Service and to brief the Service Manager and Agency Decision Maker on Panel matters. To ensure statutory requirements are met under Fostering Regulations 2011, National Minimum Standards March 2011, The Care Planning, Placement and Case Review (England) Regulations 2010 and Children’s Act 2004. To manage the panel administrator and ensure that the fostering panels are appropriately administered. To assist the agency, in consultation with the panel’s chairperson(s), in the appointment, termination and review of members of the fostering panels. We are looking for an experienced and Social Work qualified professional with a current SWE registration, that is able to demonstrate their knowledge and experience of working with fostering panel.
Essential Requirements
Social Work England Registration.
Experience of working in a statutory setting with children and making professional judgments that deliver improved outcomes.
Evidence of building effective relationships with children, families and other professionals.
Working knowledge of national policy and developments regarding children’s social care, and policy areas that impact on children’s social care.
Demonstrable working knowledge of relevant legislation, statutory guidance, standards and procedures.
Able to engage and develop effective professional relationships with other professionals and organisations for the benefit of individual children and foster carers.
Ability to assess children and families/foster carers holistically in relation to their need for support and/or protection from harm.
Experience of effective analytical reports/assessments and outcomes-focussed action/care plans.
Home to 94,000 children, Croydon is a truly unique place to practice social work. We are a borough with big ambition, grit, and determination. Children's social care was judged ‘good’ in our last Ofsted inspection.
Our systemic practice framework places emphasis on relationships as key to supporting change for families. We make sense of the world through relationships, focusing on the whole family system and thinking about our own part in that too – what we bring, our own family stories and beliefs, how we use ourselves in the work that we do. Our practice model is all about collaboration - with our families, networks and partners; being open to challenge and ensuring our practitioners are highly trained in a variety of intervention approaches. Our established clinical service will support you to grow your own systemic practice within the service, providing accredited training, co-working and direct work with families.
For an informal chat about working in Croydon, contact Agata Stolowska at agata.stolowska@croydon.gov.uk