Social Worker, £40ph, Kinship Assessment Service

Social Worker, £40ph, Kinship Assessment Service, Devon
Pertemps are recruiting for qualified and experienced Social Workers to join as an Assessing Social Worker within the Kinship Assessment Service.

The service is responsible for the assessment of connected carers, both as foster carers and special guardians. This is a challenging and rewarding role which involves the preparation of assessments for both Court and Fostering Panels and supporting cares who are granted with Special Guardianship Orders who reside in Devon, as well as those where Devon was the responsible authority and who live elsewhere.

This is an exciting time to join the team which is expanding due the increase of children being cared for within their family network.
The postholder will champion high standards of professional social work practice and have sound knowledge in fostering regulations and legal options available to children to be cared for by persons within their network.

This is a countywide role and some travel across the UK will be required due to location of assessments.  Weekly attendance in the office is required, however this is flexible as long as the service need is met.

Requirements:

• Have at least 2 years post qualifying experience including child protection/safeguarding experience
• An understanding of fostering and special guardianship regulations. Either have some experience of working within Fostering and Special Guardianship or demonstrate transferable skills from another current or previous role
• A willingness to work across the whole of the Kinship Care Service depending on the requirements of the service

If this sounds like the role for you, please contact Aishah Hassan on
Aishah.hassan@pprsocialcare.co.uk for more information

This is an agency post and Pertemps can offer you:

• A Dedicated consultant who has access to all roles across the UK and is available for you to speak to
• An easy registration process (all done online)
• Referral schemes and incentives
• Ongoing compliance managed for you
• Prompt and reliable payroll and lots more

We recruit across all areas of Qualified Social Work. If you are a Social Worker and this isn’t the role for you, contact us about other roles including IRO, BIA, MASH, LAC Children’s Social Work, Adult Social Work, Service Manager, Head of Service, Team Manager and Assistant Team Manager