Job Title: Supervising Social Worker
Location: Office base Cardiff, post allows hybrid home/office working
Salary: Up to £40,000 dependent on experience
Hours: 37.5 hours per week.
Calon Cymru Fostering are looking for a passionate Supervising Social Worker to join the team covering our Cardiff and East Wales region. You will be working alongside an established and long serving team of social workers and support workers who assess, supervise and support foster carers. You will have a manageable caseload, allowing you to focus on ensuring that our children and young people reach their full potential. In return, you will have access to a host of benefits and regular supervision from an experienced manager.
As a Supervising Social Worker, you will keep in touch and undertake home visits with our foster carers and children/young people, becoming an essential point of contact. You will be responsible for ensuring that children’s care and development needs are met within placements by undertaking necessary placement management, planning and intervention for both emergency and planned referrals. As a key member within the team, you will ensure that our children/young people have a safe, stable environment in which they feel loved and cared for and are nurtured to reach their full potential. You will also be expected to participate in the 24/7 on call rota, which offers telephone support to carers.
What we’re looking for
To apply for this position, it is essential you:
Why work for us?
*BSN/ Calon Cymru is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and vulnerable people in our care. Successful applicants will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service check.
Everyone is welcome.
Diversity and inclusion are the principles for how we build our teams and Calon Cymru Fostering strives to create an inclusive culture where all forms of diversity are valued and celebrated. We want a workforce which represents the communities we serve and work, to ensure no applicant or employee is treated unfairly on the basis of race, gender, age, disability, religion or identity. We recognise and value the individual differences and contributions of all employees and believe that by working together we can achieve equality for all.