Liquid Personnel is looking for a highly skilled and independent Kinship Care Assessor to join its client's Fostering Service in Rotherham. This role focuses on the robust assessment of kinship and mainstream foster carers, ensuring that children are placed in safe, nurturing environments that support their long-term well-being.
What will your responsibilities be?
- Comprehensive Assessments: Complete fostering assessments of kinship or mainstream carers (both within and outside the local authority) using Form K, Form C, or Form F.
- Statutory Compliance: Undertake all statutory-related checks, including references and safeguarding verifications, to ensure carers meet national standards.
- Direct Work: Conduct weekly planned and unplanned home visits and facilitate placement planning meetings to support the assessment and care planning process.
- Panel Presentation: Prepare and present completed assessments to the Fostering Panel for formal consideration and approval.
- Independent Management: Manage your own work commitments and deadlines independently while maintaining accurate, up-to-date records on the service database.
- Meeting Facilitation: Attend and contribute to case-specific meetings, working collaboratively with managers and partner agencies.
Qualifications and Experience:
To be successful in this role, you must have:
- Social Work England registration and a BA in Social Work (or equivalent).
- Experience Requirement: At least 3 years of post-qualified experience within Children’s and Young People’s Services.
- Assessment Expertise: Proven experience in completing kinship or mainstream fostering assessments and successfully presenting them to a Fostering Panel.
- Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to produce analytical and evidence-based reports.
Working Hours and Flexibility:
- Hybrid Working: Enjoy a balance of remote work and office/community-based visits in the Rotherham area.
- Schedule: Full-time hours, Monday to Friday.
- Contract: Initial 3-month contract with the strong possibility of extension based on service needs.
- Approach: A flexible and adaptive approach is required to meet the evolving needs of a busy fostering team.
Our Client's Commitment:
- Child-Centred Practice: Our client has a team committed to ensuring the health, well-being, and safety of children and their families in the region.
- Supportive Environment: While you will work independently, you will receive appropriate support from managers to facilitate complex case meetings and professional development.
Why Liquid Personnel?
- Free DBS and compliance service
- Twice weekly payroll and ‘Faster Pay’ service, getting you paid more quickly
- Access to exclusive roles that aren’t available from other agencies
- Free access to Liquid’s exclusive social work training and CPD portal
- Your own dedicated consultant with extensive social work knowledge
- Access to a wide selection of social work positions across the UK
- “Refer a Friend” bonus – get £500 for each social worker you refer who we successfully place*
- “Find your own job” bonus – get £250 for bringing your own position to us *
Liquid Personnel is an equal opportunities employer. Liquid Personnel Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. * Terms and conditions apply to our bonus schemes.
Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity by contacting our team. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.
We are unable to support or accept applications from candidates who are residents within the Red or Amber list of the Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England, based on the World Health Organisation (WHO) Workforce Support and Safeguard List.
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