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🌟 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.

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