Temp Social Worker - Fostering & Adoption Team (OUTSIDE IR35)
🌟 Temp Social Worker - Fostering & Adoption Team (OUTSIDE IR35) 🌟
📍 Location: Jersey
⏱ Hours: 37 hours per week (Monday to Friday)
💷 Pay Rate: £50.00
📅 Contract: 3 months (with possible extension)
🚗 Driving Licence & Enhanced DBS Required
🕒 Start Date: Immediate
Are you a skilled and compassionate Social Worker with a passion for supporting children and families through the fostering and adoption journey?
We are seeking a Temporary Social Worker to join our Fostering & Adoption Team, where you will play a vital role in shaping the lives of vulnerable children by providing robust, empathetic, and effective support to foster carers, adopters, and the children in their care.
👩👦👦 About the Role
As a Social Worker in our Fostering & Adoption Team, you will:
- Undertake comprehensive assessments of foster carers and prospective adopters.
- Provide ongoing support, guidance, and supervision to foster and adoptive families.
- Ensure that all placements are child-centred, safe, and supportive.
- Work collaboratively across multi-agency teams to ensure the best outcomes for children.
- Be involved in pre- and post-placement planning and support services.
- Monitor placements to ensure children's safety, stability, and development.
✅ You Must Have
- Minimum 5 years' experience working with children and families in a safeguarding team.
- Strong experience in child protection, child in need, and care proceedings.
- Experience supporting children at risk of CSE, CSA, and missing from care/home.
- Demonstrable ability to manage complex caseloads and meet statutory timescales.
- Confident working autonomously and within multidisciplinary teams.
- Direct work experience with children and families in a statutory setting.
- Valid UK driving licence.
- Enhanced DBS check (preferably on the Update Service).
- Social Work England registration (must be current).
💼 Why Join This Team?
- Supportive, collaborative team environment.
- High-impact work that changes lives.
- Flexible, hybrid working options may be considered.
- Excellent hourly rate and opportunity for contract extension.
Caritas Recruitment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
