Supervising Social Worker

Job Title: Supervising Social Worker
Location: Morley, Leeds (Hybrid working role with a mixture of home and office-based working)
Pay Rate: up to £40,000 per year (dependent upon experience)

Job Description:

Liquid Personnel is recruiting a proactive and forward-thinking Supervising Social Worker to join its client at Yorkshire, an independent and leading fostering organisation. This provider is known for its unique therapeutic approach, delivering high-quality foster care for children of all ages and abilities.
If you possess excellent interpersonal communication skills and can build positive relationships with foster parents and children’s social workers, this organisation can offer you a rewarding permanent role.
You will be part of a supportive team based out of the Leeds office, working closely with an internal therapy team (who offer reflective supervision) and Education Advisors (EAGALs) who build upon

What will your responsibilities be?

• Offer direct support to families with a realistic caseload (10-12 families).
• Build positive relationships between the agency, the foster parent, and the child’s social worker.
• Help foster parents to sustain the child in placement and ensure outcomes for children are being met within the foster family.
• Work closely with key internal and external stakeholders to enable foster parents to be informed, accept, understand, and operate within the regulations and national minimum standards.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and Car allowance.
• Competitive annual leave allowance of 30 days per annum.
• Individual and group Clinical supervision provided by a qualified psychotherapist.
• Hybrid working role with a mixture of home and office-based working.

Qualifications & Experience:

To be successful in this role you must have, 

• A formal Social Work qualification.
• Professional registration as a social worker with Social Work England.
• Experience of working in the fostering sector and/or children/young people in social care.
• The desire to be a team player who wants to achieve best possible outcomes for all children and foster carers.
• A valid driving license.
• The right to work in the UK.

Reasonable Adjustments:

If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity by contacting our team. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.

We are unable to support or accept applications from candidates who are residents within the Red or Amber list of the Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England, based on the World Health Organisation (WHO) Workforce Support and Safeguard List.

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