Job: Supervising Social Worker
Job Location: Lancaster
Pay scale: £32,516.14 - £36,277.27 (Supervising Social Worker level) or £37,792.38 - £44,435.53 (Senior level) plus OOH payments
Hours: 37.5 hours per week (plus out of hours support)
We are currently recruiting for a Supervising Social Worker or Senior Supervising Social Worker (depending on experience) to join our team in Lancaster. The Supervising Social Worker or Senior Supervising Social Worker at Community Foster Care will be driven to promote the Child or Young Person’s Ambitions or Dreams. They will do this by recruiting, enabling, and enhancing foster families to provide safe, stable, loving, nurturing family homes. Children and Young People seeking to live within these families will have often experienced significant trauma and abuse. Enabling Children and Young people to thrive in our foster families will therefore require a number of special ingredients, which you will need to develop and nurture. Community Foster Care is a therapeutic fostering agency; we are developing a reflective culture where our community is encouraged to be curious about themselves and each other and are helped to be so. It is critical that workers are committed and prepared to actively engage in this approach.
Closing date: 5th December
Interviews will take place 10th and 11th December
Please find full role description below and email your application form to info@communityfostercare.co.uk. The application form can be downloaded below.
We ask that anyone that wants to apply for this role, first discuss this informally with the Team Manager, Vera Hadwen via email at Verah@communityfostercare.co.uk or call 01524 489388.
About Community Foster Care
Community Foster Care (CFC) is a Therapeutic Independent Foster Agency. We are also a charity with an important history based on principles of social justice and the power of communities. The children and young people we work with have experienced relational and developmental trauma. These experiences present multiple complexities, which require the love, security and sense of belonging provided by a nurturing family. These families need to be resilient, highly skilled and well supported. We believe it takes a community to raise a child. As a therapeutic agency, we are exploring key approaches to refine how to achieve our mission.
Our Purpose
To enable all children to grow up in a loving family.
Our Mission
To work in and with communities to grow the potential of people who can provide nurturing care through therapeutic foster parenting
Our Approach
We use 3 core principles in our work with children and families:
Practice informed by psychodynamic and systemic approaches, attachment theory, and social justice.
A reflective culture
Collaborative and relational-based work
These approaches require all the people who work as part of this community to be:
Alignment with CFC core values.
Prepared to bring your true and best self to the work
Mentally and physically resilient.
Ability to think about what you did well and what you could have done better and how this impacted you and others.
The ability to mentalise, to put themselves in others’ shoes.
Prepared to be open to challenges from others.
Willingness to tolerate significant exposure from professional networks and remain engaged as a team player.
Commitment to engage in Therapeutic parenting approaches.
Committed to ongoing personal development and training
Minded to collaborate with others in and across teams