supervising social worker

You will manage a caseload ensuring that our foster carers, both Kinship and Mainstream, and children in their care, voices are heard, and their needs are met. You will work withfrom a strengths-based approach, ensuring the Assistant/Team Manager is kept fully appraised of significant information. Most importantly, you will ensure provision of good quality services which integrate government and local guidance and initiatives including, Children Acts 1989 & 2004, Working Together, local Child Protection and Looked After Children procedures, and the DoH, Assessment Framework 2000, Care Plannng, National Minimum Standard and Fostering regulations. Please also refer to the Job Description You will be well versed in preparing and submitting written reports as and when required. By efficiently using ICT, you will maintain accurate case records and will be able to record activity in line with key performance management data.

As a qualified experienced Social Worker, with SWE registration, you will possess good working knowledge of services relevant to children, young people, families, carers, groups and partner agencies. To succeed in this role, you will have a good understanding of safeguarding, relevant legislation, guidance, policy and procedures, and an awareness of practice standards. It will be hugely beneficial for you to have working knowledge of Motivational Interviewing and the cycle of change and their application in social work with children and families as this is also utilised within the fostering service Your supportive and energised nature will also help you chair meetings and proactively engage with partner agencies. It is essential that you are able to travel to visit clients and attend meetings both in and out of the county of Oxfordshire and occasionally at short notice.

Together, we're shaping children's social care for the future. Every day, our colleagues are helping to transform the lives of the residents of Oxfordshire. In our Children, Education, & Families directorate, we're committed to delivering lasting change, by helping the children, young people, and families of Oxfordshire to thrive. We know the importance of building relationships, empowering people, and building on strengths and this is reflected in our restorative, relational practice approach. We've been consistently rated as "good" by Ofsted, but we are not content with that; we are ambitious and want to do even better! We're a financially stable local authority which is committed to investing in Children, Education, and Families, to ensure that we have the resources we need to make a real difference to the families we work with - including successful operation of our transformational model Family Support and Safeguarding.

• Relocation allowance of up to £8,000.
• Annual leave starting at 30 days per year (plus bank holidays).
• A comprehensive Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
• Flexible working.
• Employee Assistance Programme including access to health and wellbeing support 24x7.
• Range of family-friendly policies.
• Childcare vouchers, cycle to work scheme, electric car scheme, range of staff discounts including travel, holidays, insurance, food, health & leisure activities.
• Excellent learning and development opportunities., We are open to discussions about flexible working, which can include flexi-time, part time working, job
sharing, nine-day fortnights and annualised hours, depending on the requirements of the role and the service.