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Fostering Social Worker needed with West Sussex County Council

Start Date- ASAP

Location - Horsham

Duration - Initially 6 months

Hours per week - 37 hours per week

Salary - Up to £42ltd per hour

Description:

• Fostering social workers are required to complete the kinship assessments and your role will include completing Initial Viability Assessments, Special Guardianship Order Assessments for Court, and Connected Persons Assessments for Fostering Panel.
• As a fostering and adoption social worker you will need to have comprehensive child protection experience to be able to oversee the balance and assessment of risk.
• Fostering and Adoption social workers will need to work collaboratively with other areas of Children's Services and professionals involved in the care planning process of a child's life.
• West Sussex require a fostering social worker who is emotionally intelligent, organised, resilient individual who is able to work to Court and Fostering Panel directed deadlines whilst ensuring the highest quality of assessment, and also effectively balancing the demands of working on a number of different assessments at the same time.

What is required?

• Social Work Qualification
• Social Work England registration
• Previous experience within Children's Social Work specifically in adoption or fostering

Working as a Qualified Social Worker with Service Care Solutions

• We will pay you £150 after 4 weeks in an assignment if you have not previously worked with us
• We offer £250 for every Qualified Social Worker you refer over to us
• (£150 after 6 weeks in the assignment and £100 after completing 12 weeks)
• We will offer £150 to you for sourcing your own job and referring it to Service Care Solutions
• We will pay up to £250 each year to help with your Continuing Professional Development
• We will pay a "thank you" bonus to you after each 12-month period you complete with Service Care Solutions

If you are interested please call Erin Webbe on 01772 208964 or email me your CV - [email protected]

If this role isn't right for you, but you know someone who would fit perfectly to our engaged and devoted team and you refer them, you will receive a referral bonus of £250.

The benefits of working with SCS;

• A specialist, dedicated Social Work consultant offering single point of contact
• Exceptional referral bonuses - £250 per referral placed in to work!
• An extensive & exclusive range of Social Work vacancies across the UK
• Nationwide provider Social Work staff to over 200 local authorities.
• Payroll service twice a week.
• Ltd and PAYE payment options available.
• Annual training budget of up to £250 and continued online CPD training.
• Excellent Annual Loyalty schemes / bonuses.
• DBS disclosures provided via fast track online services free of charge.