Supervising Social Worker

Not all our vacancies are advertised here, please visit www.fife.gov.uk/jobs to view all our current vacancies.

Job Details

Fife Council is committed to ensuring that high quality foster placements are available for children who cannot remain safely at home. To do this, we are looking for an enthusiastic individual to join our team with a focus on assessing and supporting a diverse community of foster carers throughout Fife.

Within this role your main responsibilities would include:

• Supporting and supervising a caseload of foster carers
• Responding to fostering enquiries
• Assessing capacity to foster
• Placement searches for looked after children as part of a duty system
• Organisation and development of support groups and events

The Person

This post has a blended approach of working from home and spending time in the office. The pattern of working hours will be determined for individual remits and on occasions may include evenings and weekends. There will be a requirement to attend meetings outwith normal working hours, when necessary, subject to service user and staff availability.

There will also be a requirement to attend outwith normal working hours for development, training, registration compliance etc when necessary.

You will participate in the team duty system.

You must have a Diploma in Social Work or equivalent.

You must undertake thorough and informed assessments of Foster Carers.

You will provide support, supervision and monitoring, and also contribute to the training and development of Foster Carers.

You will have considerable experience in a Children and Family setting.

Knowledge and understanding of Child and Adult Protection guidelines and information sharing protocols is essential, together with experience of joint working to achieve common goals.

You may be required to obtain a Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme Membership or Disclosure Check for this role

Until 5th March 2023, you may be eligible for a fee waiver if you join the social care sector (certain roles only) for the first time and the role requires PVG membership. This is a great time to consider a change of career into Social Care as, if eligible, this initiative could personally save you up to £59.00. You will also save money on your SSSC fees as these will now be paid for all roles and grades by the Scottish Government.

For further information please contact: Laura Lowrie, laura.lowrie@fife.gov.uk

We are currently shaping our future workstyles however, in light of current advice, we are introducing blended home/office working that will include office access days each week with homeworking for the remainder of your working time.