Vacancy Description

Are you a committed, experienced child care social worker with a particular interest in fostering team is a specialist team which works in close collaboration with colleagues across Achieving for Children to find short term and permanent fostering placements for children, alongside undertaking the full range of family placement fostering roles and responsibilities, including assessing and supporting kinship placement arrangements.

Achieving for Children was created by the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames and the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames in 2014, and since then has been commissioned to deliver children’s services on behalf of both local authorities. In August 2017, the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead became the third owner of the company. Our Independent Fostering Agency (IFA) was created in August 2018 and the Kingston and Richmond Branch was inspected in September 2019 and achieved a “Good” rating in all areas. The Windsor and Maidenhead branch of the IFA will be separately inspected within the next year.

We are looking for experienced social workers with good assessment, communication and report writing skills, and the motivation to achieve excellent standards in contributing to the development of our service. If you think you can contribute to the effective work of this team, then we would like to hear from you.

As a Social Worker your role will be to work with colleagues to provide the full range of fostering services, including recruitment, assessment, training and supervision/support, and share the role of duty social worker within the team. You will undertake a range of work to safely place and work to achieve permanency plans for children.

Some knowledge of legislation, procedure, practice and guidance for children and young people in relation to fostering is essential.

You will be required to hold a professional qualification (DipSW/CQSW/CSS or equivalent) and be registered with the HCPC.

The post will require daily use of a car and some evening and occasional weekend work.

In return, we offer you an excellent working environment, good supervision and specialist training opportunities.

For an informal discussion, please contact Angela Moore, Team Manager, on 07584 525558.

Start dates
Achieving for Children have Fixed Start Dates, candidates are advised to prepare for this should a job offer be accepted to ensure eligible continuous service is not affected.

Achieving for Children is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Successful candidates will be required to undertake a Criminal Record Check.

Closing date: 1 March 2020

Interviews: 9 March 2020

Further information on this vacancy

• Job Description/Person Specification
• Fixed Start Date Information