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Location

North West England | United Kingdom

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Job description

Job Title: Senior Social Worker / Advanced Practitioner

Location: Regionally based across Cumbria and Lancashire

Contract Type: Permanent – Full Time

Hours: 37.5 per week

Salary: up to £42,000 per annum (This includes a £3,000 car allowance)

About the Role

This is an amazing opportunity to join the National Fostering Group as a Senior Social Worker / Advanced Practitioner with Fostering Solutions – North West. This agency is based in Bolton but has smaller offices across the North West of England.

Our Senior Social Workers / Advanced Practitioners are responsible for supporting the Registered Manager and Team Manager in the overall management of the region and be an active member of the regional management team in order to develop practice and growth of the fostering service, ensuring a ready supply of safe, caring foster placements that offer protection to a wide range of children and young people.

Our Senior Social Workers / Advanced practitioners will manage staff and work with their Team Manager to lead projects and develop the service. They will supervise a small number of foster carers as required and support foster carers with children who have more complex needs.

About the Group

We are part of the National Fostering Group – the UK’s largest independent fostering family.

Our highly skilled and dedicated fostering community supports Local Authorities by providing short or long-term foster placements for thousands of vulnerable children and teenagers throughout the UK. Almost all of our 32 regional fostering agencies are officially recognised by Ofsted, Welsh and Scottish regulators as either ‘Outstanding’ or ‘Good’, it is perhaps not surprising that more people choose to foster with our fostering agencies than any other fostering provider in the UK.

Who we are looking for

You will need to have Social Work Registration and possess a good working knowledge of relevant legislation and their impact on fostering services. Participation in an evening and weekend on call rota is expected and is reflected in the salary.

You will be keen to develop your management skills and take a leadership role in specific areas and projects.

You will be a strong communicator, both written and verbal, have good IT skills and be flexible and able to travel throughout the area.

Essential Criteria

Car driver and access to a vehicle
Current registration with the relevant Social Work regulatory council (e.g Social Work England/Wales, NISCC, SSSC)
Recent experience in services for children
Why work for us

At National Fostering Group, our employee’s health and wellbeing are important to us. We offer an exceptional rewards package as well as access to our flexible benefits platform - so you can choose extra benefits that are suited to you. Below includes some of our offerings:

Up to 39 days annual leave each year (25 base entitlement + 1 One moment in time + 8 bank holidays + ability to buy up to 5 extra days)
You will also get 1 extra days holiday per year of service up until 5 years
Minimum 9% pension contributions
Life Assurance
‘The Hub’ – a discount marketplace
Tech Scheme – tax and interest free retail vouchers
Plus so much more physical and mental health benefits for you to choose from!

And that’s not all, we place the outcomes of the children and vulnerable young adults in our services at the heart of everything we do, so you’ll wake every day in the knowledge that your role will have a significant positive impact on the lives of others.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and we expect all employees to share this commitment and undertake appropriate checks.

We are an Equal Opportunities Employer

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Salary

£42k per annum