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Vale of Glamorgan
Placement Team
Salary - £34,834 - £43,421
About the role:
The Placements Team assesses and approves foster placements for Vale of Glamorgan children in conjunction with our Fostering Panel.
This includes an increasing number of kinship placements enabling children to remain within their wider family network. The team provide support to foster carers, with a commitment to promoting the recruitment and retention of local carers. Identifying and commissioning placements for children looked after, both within our internal resources and within the independent sector when an internal placement cannot be identified is a key part of the Team's role.
The Team includes a therapeutic service working with children and their carers to promote placement stability andprevent disruption.This team offers foster carers 24/7 professional fostering support. The support line is run solely by fostering staff, who are available to talk through the situation and provide advice and support over the phone. A worker in this team will be required to be a part of the out of hours support on average be a commitment of one overnight per week, and less than one full weekend a month.
There is an allowance available which will be paid in addition to core wages. Please note this is not a 'waking night' commitment.
The Special Guardianship Social Worker will oversee all the support offered to children and families where a Special Guardianship Order is in place.
They will ensure that annual reviews take place and they will design and deliver bespoke support on an individual and group basis.
Any applicant for this role must have post qualification experience in offering direct social work support to children, families and/or carers.
Qualifications and requirements :
- Social work qualification
- Registered with SCW
- Full Driving License
Why work for Randstad :
- Dedicated Consultant to help with your recruitment needs
- Twice weekly Payroll
- Refer a friend bonus
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Randstad Care acts as an employment business when supplying temporary staff and as an employment agency when introducing candidates for permanent employment with a client. Randstad Care is an equal opportunities employer and decisions are made on merits alone.
Did you know that Randstad Care have been awarded a place on the National Clinical Staffing Framework for the NHS? This means we will be able to bring you more opportunities within nursing & midwifery and clinical staffing.
