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Location

Sunderland, Tyne and Wear | United Kingdom

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Job description

Fostering Hub Social Worker
Salary: £34,834 - £44,428 per annum, plus an Essential Car User Allowance: £1239 per annum and 2% Recruitment and Retention Allowance.

To support the roll out of the North East Pathfinder project, Foster with North East are seeking to recruit a Fostering Social Worker.  The successful applicant will support the roll out of the North East Pathfinder programme, ensuring that sound advice and guidance is shared with prospective foster carers.

You will need to have sound knowledge of the Children Act 1989 and be able to demonstrate excellent communication and negotiation skills. Experience of working with children, foster carers, parents and other professionals is highly desirable. Knowledge of family finding and matching children with carers would also be an advantage.
A good understanding of the Fostering Regulations, Guidance and National Minimum Standards 2011 (England) is expected

Together for Children is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.  We expect all staff to share this commitment and an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) disclosure will be sought along with other relevant pre-employment checks.

We have:An extremely attractive and competitive salary
Up to 31 days annual leave
Flexible working arrangements and an agile working policy.
A hybrid model of working; this model has proved invaluable and popular with our staff as it ensures they receive a high level of face-to-face support and supervision.
Free onsite parking.
Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme & local authority. continuous service terms and conditions also apply.
A flexi scheme.
An excellent health and wellbeing programme.   
As part of this commitment, we work collaboratively with our established employee networks:

• Accessibility Network
• LGBTQ+ Network
• Racial Equality Network

We welcome and encourage job applications from candidates regardless of their age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, belief or race, and background.

If you have a disability please do reach out to our Accessibility Network Chair to hear how we can support you during the recruitment process and if you are successful, in the workplace [email protected]

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