Social Worker - Family Connections Team

Job Description

To provide a statutory Social Work Service in accordance with the provisions of relevant legislation and national and local guidelines.

As a social worker you will assume case management responsibilities specific to the Service, carrying out assessment of service users needs and risks, following Service procedures and delivering direct interventions to individuals and small groups. To provide post adoption support and assess and train prospective and current Foster Carers and Adopters in line with relevant procedures and legislation. The role will also involve participating in structured consultation/supervision sessions and representing the Social Work Service in multi-disciplinary forums. This will all be in accordance with Council or hosted stakeholders arrangements, through a Service Level Agreement or Partnership arrangement.

As a social worker you will provide evidenced based Form F assessments and relevant reports in relation to Fostering and Adoption, drawing on the analysis of all available facts and theoretical based knowledge and research.

Participate in the selection, assessing and training of new Foster Carers and prospective Adopters.

Undertake regular supervisory and support role to your case load of approved carers and providing support and training across the fostering group by way of training events and support groups.

Work collaboratively with colleagues within the children and family teams and professionals in other agencies, to achieve the best outcomes for Foster Carers, Adopters and the children placed with them.

The Family Connections Team comprises of three registered services – fostering, adoption and continuing care. We have recently been evaluated as good or very good across key quality indicators for all three services. We are committed to continuing to develop our service with The Promise central to our work. We are seeking an enthusiastic Social Worker with experience working in children’s services to join our team. You will have experience undertaking complex assessments which inform support and intervention. Experience working in a fostering or adoption team will be advantageous, but not essential. In addition to the traditional role of Supervising Social Worker for carers, you will be afforded opportunities to develop creative approaches to delivering support to care giving families across each service. Participation is central to how the team has developed; the successful candidate will recognise the importance of relationships centrally within their practice. We are currently implementing Readiness for Practice and Readiness for Caring – a programme of training available to staff and caregivers based on BALTIC approaches (theories/approaches that are Brain based, Attachment Led, Trauma Informed, and Community centred). Within this role you will be trained to a Trauma enhanced level.

Additional Information

You can view the application pack below which contains the job profile outlining the skills, experience and knowledge required for this job.  You can also find our recruitment privacy notice and a general information pack about Clackmannanshire Council.

Clackmannanshire Council welcomes applications from everyone and we value diversity in our workforce.  We are committed to being an exemplar employer with an inclusive culture, developing a workplace environment where all our employees are treated with dignity and respect.  For this vacancy, we would welcome applications from ethnic minority groups, who are currently under represented in our workforce.

Clackmannanshire Council operates a flexible hybrid approach for those roles that allow this type of working.  Attendance at the office will be required to meet the needs of the business and for example to build team and stakeholder relationships.  The exact pattern of working will be agreed with you as part of the recruitment process.

Clackmannanshire Council is a living wage accredited employer.

This post is considered Regulated Work with Children and / or Protected Adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007.  You will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check prior to a formal offer of employment being made by Clackmannanshire Council.  Further guidance will follow in your conditional offer of employment on how to apply.  Please note you will be required to pay for the cost of this application if your salary is over £38,000 per annum, which will be deducted from your first pay.  Further information can be found here https://www.mygov.scot/pvg-scheme

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