37 hours per week
Bridgend County Borough Council offers a great opportunity to support children to achieve stability and permanence.
We want to ensure the best outcomes for children and young people are achieved via the completion of high quality assessments and provision of comprehensive support packages for children to reside in permanent homes.
The permanence team sits alongside the kinship fostering service in BCBC and works in partnership with this service. As a member of the team you will benefit from being part of a well-established, supportive and stable staff team.
The role of a permanence worker is to undertake assessments of connected persons to care for children under a permanent order and coordinate the Financial Assessments, Support Plans and reviews of of these for Special Guardians. Assessments are undertaken within both Public and Private Law proceedings. This will also include completion of initial viability assessments of potential connected persons carers where necessary.
Applicants will need to be suitably experienced and knowleable with regard to Spcial Guardianship Regulations and Orders of permanence available to the Court to enable them to provide advice, consultation and mentoring to social workers, prospective permanet carers and young people considering an alternative Court Order.
You will be required to work in partnership with Social Workers and other agencies to ensure that Prospective carers, Special Guardians and the children/young people that they support receive advice and support needed to ensure that the placements are successful and effective and that the outcomes set for each child/young person are achieved.
You will need to be keen, enthusiastic and have an understanding of the needs of Connected Persons foster carer’s and Special Guardians.
You will be fully supported in the role and undertake appropriate training. In 2020 Children’s Social Care launched the Outcome Focussed Approach Social Work model which underpins all of our practice in Bridgend. All new staff will be provided with a suite of training that will support them to develop their practice in line with the principles of the model. You will receive a robust induction, regular reflective supervision as well as additional support and mentoring where required.
We are a reflective organisation that continuously builds on its strengths and is committed to the principle that the most effective way of improving outcomes for all Children, Young People and Families is through the provision of accessible, universal services. Join us and you will work in a rewarding, learning environment where staff feel valued.
Protecting children, young people or adults at risk is a core responsibility of all council employees.
Applicants should note that a criminal records check by the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) will be necessary for the successful applicant.
For further information on working as a Permanence Social Worker in Bridgend Fostering Team, please contact: Alex Fitzpatrick (alex.fitzpatrick@bridgend.gov.uk )
Closing date: Wednesday 12th October 2022
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