Senior Practitioner

Eden Brown
£30000-£34000 per annum + benefits
Permanent
Full Time
Yorkshire and the Humber

An independent fostering agency seeking a Senior Practitioner for our Leeds Office.

Our vision is to meet the growing need for quality assured placements offering the highest standards of care for children and young people, and to provide real placement choice for local authorities.

Our expectation is that in addition to meeting or exceeding all the National Standards, our foster homes should be places where I would be happy for my own children to stay.
Experience to date has been very positive with real differences being made to the life chances of children placed with us.

Registration of our first three Foster Care offices in Birmingham, Manchester and Newcastle was completed in 2004 and we sought, through a process of continuous improvement, to open further offices in London, Darlington, and Leeds. We are now a major provider of foster care placements throughout Scotland.

As a supervising social worker you will contribute to the recruitment, training and assessment of new carers, and take a lead in placement planning, matching and review processes, for a maximum of 12 carers based in our Leeds office.

You will receive full support and supervision but must also be confident and capable of working autonomously and have excellent communication, assessment and decision making skills.

Experience of working with looked after children and sound knowledge of placement issues, ability to develop and sustain excellent working relationships with a wide range of colleagues and customers and a real enthusiasm for the best aspects of family placement are essential requirements for the role.

Duties:
· General recruitment of foster carers for the agency.
· Training, in group setting, of prospective foster carers.
· Assessment of foster carers.
· Presentations at Agency Fostering Panel and local authority fostering
panels.
· Providing support and supervision to foster carers as their supervising
social worker.
· Direct work with children in placement.
· Participation in out of hours carers support services.
· Liaison with relevant placing local authority workers, for example,
children’s Social Workers, family centre workers, residential workers.
· Liaison with other agencies involved with child/ren in placement, for
example, health, education.
· Attend case conferences, planning meetings, child care reviews and
contribute to decision making.

A generous salary commensurate to experience and benefits package including
Car Allowance, On-call Allowance and Health Insurance.

For further information or to apply, please contact Katy Watson at Eden Brown on 020 7422 7408 or e-mail: k.watson@edenbrown.com