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- Social Worker - Fostering (permanent) x3
- Childrens Services Assistant - Fostering (permanent)
Social Worker - Fostering (permanent)
- - Newly qualified social workers £28,672-£31,346.
- - Level 3 social worker £32,234-£34,728.
- - 31-39 days annual leave (inclusive of 8 Bank Holidays)
- - You will be based at Chapel Street, Flint, covering Flintshire and surrounding area.
Newly qualified? Are you excited and ready to be a social worker? Join a supportive team who will guide you in your early days of putting your learning into practice. All 16 members of our fostering team are permanent members of staff. You will have a mentor in the team to support you, with many years’ experience in the local authority.
What does the role involve?
Your role will be supporting foster carers who live in the local area. Most of our fostering team live within Flintshire too and have a great relationship with the carers they support. You will be expected to assess, train and support foster carers and review their care of our children. As the first local authority in Wales to adopt the Mockingbird family model of support to foster carers, we are keen for you to support this innovative way of working and share the great outcomes we are already seeing for children.
How can I progress my skills?
By joining Flintshire, you can progress your skills through CPEL, with opportunities to develop to senior roles within a wide range of social work teams. Working alongside our therapists, as part of our Mockingbird model of support, you will learn therapeutic parenting techniques to develop your skills in supporting foster carers.
What hours will I work?
Your role will be mostly 9-5 but you will need to make some evening appointments with foster carers who work during the day. Time can be claimed back through our flexi scheme. Our duty rota shares the placement task across a large team. Most of our fostering team work full time (37hrs) but there is flexibility within the role to work part-time. Flexible and agile working have been the norm in Flintshire for a number of years.
Can I chat to the team?
Get in touch for a chat with a member of the fostering team. Find out what it's like to work in fostering in Flintshire. Even if your qualification hasn’t come through yet, get in touch.
"I would highly recommend Flintshire. My whole experience has been great from the beginning. Every single person has been really friendly and eager to help me learn. I've not felt like the 'new girl' asking questions. Management have been available. It's always been fair, I can take my time back if I work extra" Student
"I can't fault Flintshire as a local authority. We have amazing support. We also have a support group and whatsapp group with other newly qualified staff and it's good to know someone is the same as you. Training has been great. Having a a mentor in the team has been a massive help, you feel comfortable to ask the tiny stupid questions, not bothering seniors who have other things to do." Newly qualified social worker
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Application closing date: 30/06/2021
- - £23,541.00 to £25,991.00 Full Time.
- - Benefits of working for Flintshire County Council include 31-39 days annual leave (inclusive of bank holidays)
- - You will be based at Chapel Street, Flint, covering the Flintshire and surrounding area.
What are the typical working hours?
Your role is mostly Monday to Friday 9-5 but you will need to make some evening appointments to support some families who work during the day. You will be supporting and visiting carers who mostly live in the local area. Time can be claimed back through our flexi scheme.
What does the role involve?
As part of the Council’s fostering team, you will be supporting general and connected person foster families, so they can in turn can support the child, where they are safe, thriving and happy.
What is connected persons?
Connected Persons, also known as Kinship care or Family and friend carers, come from all walks of life. You will be supporting brothers caring for sisters, uncles, grandads and aunties. They have often come into fostering at a crisis point in their wider family. They have not come into fostering with the same perspective or decided to be a foster carer. They’ve had to react quickly to difficult news in their family and put themselves forward to care for a child they know. The role will involve working closely with the extended family and parents as a whole family unit. This is a challenging and rewarding aspect of the role where you will be problem-solving issues unique to each family and helping to balance the different hats that connected person carers have to wear. You will support carers with the challenges experienced by connected person carers, including family loyalties, family dynamics and living their family life under the fostering umbrella.
What is expected of me?
You will be part of a large fostering team, who share the task of finding foster placements for children on a duty rota. You will build good relationships with all your carers and all the different teams and professionals involved with the family. You will also bring small groups of carers together for training, support groups and coffee mornings. By introducing carers to other local families in a similar situation, you will help to make sure they don't feel on their own.
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Application closing date: 06/07/2021
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