Senior Practitioner - Fostering South East Hub

Posted 7th Oct, 2026

Location

Bromley

Working pattern

Full-time – 36 hours per week

Working arrangements

Blended

20th Oct, 2026

Incentives

This role is subject to a £2,000 Golden Hello payment and a £2,000 annual retention allowance. A further retention allowance of up to £8,000 is available for successful candidates relocating from overseas or the outer south-east area.

About the role

Are you looking for your next exciting role in social work? Do you have what it takes to assess foster carers and kinship carers? If so, this could be the perfect role for you! The London Borough of Bromley is currently seeking a talented, experienced, and ambitious Senior Practitioner to join the Permanency team and support the inception of the Fostering South East Hub.

The Hub is responsible for coordinating fostering marketing, recruitment, and assessment activity across participating local authorities. This innovative project is funded by the Department for Education (DfE) and forms part of the Government's national strategy to recruit an additional 10,000 foster carers. The successful candidate will be joining a warm, friendly, and enthusiastic team committed to making a difference to the lives of children and families in the borough.

Bromley's services for children and families have made a remarkable leap forward to Outstanding social work practice, as recognised in their recent Ofsted Inspection. As outlined in the Corporate Strategy Making Bromley Even Better, the borough is committed to improving the lives of children and young people so that they are able to grow up, thrive, and have the best life chances in families who flourish and are happy to call Bromley home.

Key responsibilities include:

• Undertaking a range of assessment work, including Connected Persons, Special Guardianship, Form F, and Non-Agency assessments
• Providing Supervising Social Work support to temporarily approved carers
• Assessing, training, and supporting foster carers and supported lodgings hosts in line with relevant Regulations, National Minimum Standards, and good practice
• Undertaking home visits, attending in-person meetings and events, and completing office-based work
• Working in partnership with a range of agencies to deliver positive and effective outcomes for families

About you

Bromley is looking for a committed and skilled social work professional who is passionate about making a difference to the lives of children, young people, and families. The ideal candidate will bring relevant experience in fostering and kinship care, alongside strong interpersonal and organisational skills.

The ideal candidate will:

• Hold a professional qualification in Social Work (Degree, Masters, CQSW, or Dip. Social Work)
• Be registered with Social Work England, or be able to obtain registration prior to commencement of employment
• Have appropriate and relevant post-qualification experience in children and family placements, fostering, and kinship care
• Demonstrate a genuine respect for families and a belief in the benefits of lifelong learning
• Have knowledge of the issues faced by families in the context of fostering and kinship care
• Be approachable and enthusiastic, with excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Enjoy working as part of a team as well as independently
• Have excellent organisational skills and enjoy working in partnership with a range of agencies
• Be a proficient user of IT software and able to maintain accurate records and follow policy and documentation procedures

The London Borough of Bromley is committed to achieving equal opportunities in employment and service delivery. As a Disability Confident Committed employer, applications from people with disabilities are actively encouraged, and reasonable adjustments will be considered to support disability employment. Bromley is forces family friendly and part of the Armed Forces Covenant Employer Recognition Scheme (Bronze Award); applications are welcomed from ex-Armed Forces personnel, reservists, veterans, cadet instructors, and military spouses/partners.

This post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

About Bromley

In Bromley we are consistently going above and beyond, enabling our children, young people, and their families to grow and flourish, being aspirational and building resilience for the future. We strive to create opportunities to be innovative and reflective within an organisation that nurtures relationships, always seeks feedback, and has self-confidence to listen and act.

Our vision is: by working together with children and their families and agency partners, we will ensure that every child in Bromley has the right help at the right time to keep them safe, and to meet their needs, so they achieve, thrive, and reach their full potential.

Our ‘Bromley Relationship Model’ is a model unique to our local authority based on Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory. We are looking for a social worker who is passionate about working with children and their families who will be able use their ability to form good relationships with families and professionals to bring about positive changes for children and young people. Our vision is at the heart of our model and is supported by our purpose, our aims, our social work behaviours, and our enablers.

Bromley Children’s Social Care has recently been awarded an Ofsted rating of “Outstanding”

You can read Ofsted's report here

Manageable caseloads for every Social Worker

Dedicated time for reflective supervision

Generous Annual Leave Entitlement including an additional three days

Small Cluster teams with one team manager supervising four Social Workers

Two-week protected induction programme

Excellent Learning and development opportunities with bespoke training for every social worker

Social Workers and team managers have easy and regular access to the leadership team

Benefits working for the London Borough of Bromley:

Golden Hello & Annual Retention Allowance

The opportunity to participate in the Local Government Pension Scheme

Excellent training and career development pathway

Free Car Parkingat Bromley Civic Centre

The ability to claim mileage for business trips in line with HMRC guidance

Relocation Allowance (up to £8,000) for successful candidates relocating from overseas orthe outer southeast area

A range of salary sacrifice schemes, including for lease cars, technology equipment and for gym.

Benefit scheme also includes a range of discounts at local retailers

We are forces family friendly and are part of the Armed Forces Covenant Employer Recognition Scheme (Bronze Award). We welcome applications from ex-Armed Forces personnel, reservists, veterans, cadet instructors and military spouses/partners. We are committed to achieving equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and as a disability confident committed employer we encourage applications from people with disabilities. As part of this commitment, we will consider reasonable adjustment to support disability employment. We offer a generous package including competitive pay, career average pension scheme, flexible working practices and the Bromley employee benefits scheme; Cycle2Work, Salary Sacrifice Lease Car, Technology Scheme, GymFlex and a wide range of local and national discounts

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