Supervising Social Worker in Halesowen

Barnardo's is seeking a committed and skilled Supervising Social Worker to join our Midlands Fostering Families service which also covers the South East of England. This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a supportive and passionate team dedicated to providing high-quality support to foster carers and achieving the best outcomes for children.

As a Supervising Social Worker, you will support, supervise, and develop a caseload of foster carers, ensuring safe, child-centred, and high-quality fostering practice. Your caseload will be predominantly based in the South East, and you will work closely with foster families, children, colleagues, and partner agencies. This is a home-based role; however, on occasions, you may be required to travel to our Halesowen office to attend team meetings, support service delivery, and engage in collaborative practice.

Your role will include the following:

• Provide supervision, support, and guidance to foster carers in line with regulatory and Barnardo's standards.
• Undertake visits, assessments, and reviews to ensure safe, effective, and child-led foster homes.
• Work directly with children and young people to understand their lived experiences and support positive outcomes.
• Contribute to the recruitment, training, and development of foster carers.
• Work in partnership with local authorities, health, education, and other agencies.
• Ensure robust safeguarding practice and respond effectively to any concerns.
• Maintain accurate and timely records and contribute to audits, quality assurance, and service planning.

Additional Information: Please include as much relevant detail in your application to demonstrate how you fulfil the requirements of our job role, as outlined above and in the Job Description/Personal Specification. Experience can be from previous employment, education, training, volunteering etc. Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible.

Benefits include:

• Annual Leave entitlement for full-time colleagues is 26 days per annum, increasing to 27 days after 3 years, 29 days after 5 years, and 30 days after 7 years of Barnardo's service.
• The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our Buy Your Leave scheme.
• A host of family-friendly leave options including company Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption pay.
• Service related sick pay from day 1.
• Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's.
• Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension.
• Cycle2work scheme.
• Interest-free season ticket loans.
• Discounts and cashback from high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays, and much more via our Benefit Portal.
• 20% discount at Barnardo's stores.
• Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc.
• Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support.
• Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer.

About Barnardo's: We are committed to being an inclusive employer and cultivating a culture where everyone can belong and thrive through inclusion and connectivity. We want our workforce to be reflective of the communities we work with, and for equality, diversity, and inclusion to be embedded in everything we do.