Social Worker | Fostering Support Team | Gloucestershire | £35 ph

Social Worker – Fostering Support Team – Gloucestershire – £35ph

Job Title: Fostering Social Worker

Location: Gloucestershire County Council

Pay Rate: £35 per hour

Contract Type: Locum / Temporary

Working Pattern: Full-time (37 hours per week)

About the Role:

Gloucestershire is seeking a committed and experienced Fostering Social Worker to join our vibrant and supportive Fostering Team. You will play a vital role in supporting, supervising, and developing foster carers to provide safe, stable, and nurturing homes for children in care.

Key Responsibilities:

• The role includes supporting and supervising foster carers to ensure they provide the best quality care to meet the needs of vulnerable children as set out in their care plan.
• Safeguarding is our priority, and we ensure that households comply with the National Minimum Standards for fostering.
• We supervise 190 fostering households in the team, run support groups and support with foster carer training.
• The ideal candidate will be able to fit into this busy but welcoming team, undertake annual reviews, hold a caseload, and help with identifying placements for children.
• Regular reflective supervision is prioritized by managers in the team, opportunities to learn and develop skills are available.

Working with Tripod Partners offers you a number of benefits including:

• Your own dedicated specialist consultant
• Access to the widest variety of social work jobs across 150 authorities and private organizations throughout the UK
• Prompt and reliable payroll
• Free DBS and compliance service
• £500 referral fee

For more information, please contact Dylan at Tripod Partners on 07919 026892 or send your CV to dylan.nel@tripodpartners.co.uk

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