Advanced Fostering Social Worker
Core
Deliver high-quality social work practice for children, young people, and families within the fostering service, focusing on risk management, permanency, and stability.
Role type
Senior IC fostering social worker (kinship assessment)
Builds
Stable, secure relationships and care plans for children in foster care
Domain
Social work / Child welfare / Fostering
Deliverable
physical/clinical work
Required skills
Complex caseload management, risk analysis, report writing, assessment and planning, supervision of junior staff, statutory compliance knowledge, partnership working
Preferred skills
Systemic tools (genograms), leadership, coaching
Technologies
Genograms, Children Act 2004 framework
Responsibilities
Manage complex caseloads with robust risk analysis, provide formal supervision to ASYEs and Grade 8 or below staff, support team development and co-working, prepare work for formal meetings (Foster Panel, Reviews), contribute to service strategy and quality assurance, provide out-of-hours on-call support for foster carers
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with leadership duties