Advanced Social Worker Fostering Devon

Advanced Practitioner – Mockingbird Team, Exeter & East.  

£42 per hour Umbrella company

Working closely with the Team Manager, you will provide professional guidance and supervision to colleagues within your team. Your role includes supporting your manager with the day-to-day operations of your team and contributing to an effective and efficient service to foster carers.   

This is a hands-on role, where you have a smaller number of foster carers to support and supervise. Other duties can include undertaking fostering standards of care concerns or allegation investigations and undertaking the role of foster panel advisor. You will share your knowledge and experience with colleagues, offer mentoring to new workers joining the team and contribute to the improvement work of the service.  

Skills and Experience 

The Advanced Practitioner will provide a lead social work role within each of our teams, supporting the development of good evidence-based practice. 

With substantial post-qualifying experience and the ability to demonstrate that you’re working in line with the BASW PCF framework, you will:

Demonstrate the ability to work holistically with foster carers, children in care and our partner agencies.  

Have evidence of substantial post-qualifying training and development 

Be able to lead improvement and challenge the quality of social care practice in a constructive manner 

Champion high standards of professional social work practice 

Encourage and support opportunities for reflection and learning, delivering on-the-job training, coaching, and mentoring to unqualified/alternatively qualified staff, students, and less experienced social workers. 

This is a fantastic opportunity for anyone looking to take the next step in their social work career. Fostering is a challenging but incredibly rewarding environment, where you can see first-hand the positive impact our dedicated teams have on the future of Children and Young People in Devon.

To apply for this role, you will need to hold -

• A minimum of 6 months experience of working in the UK as a registered social worker
• A relevant Social Work Qualification
• Registration Social Work England
• Enhanced DBS, registered on the update service or be happy to apply for a DBS
• 3 Years of referencing 
• Driving license with access to a car

Benefits of working for Hoop:

• 20 years’ experience of the Social Work market
• PAYE and Umbrella payroll options available – you choose!
• Dedicated point of contact (support team to cover whilst on leave)
• Twice weekly payroll
• Actively supplying every Local Authority in South/West Wales and South West England
• Free on-site quarterly training sessions (Contributing towards CPD)
• Refer a friend scheme available
• Loyalty Bonus to QSW's
• Wellbeing sessions

Given the nature of the role, only applications from individuals with a social work qualification and registration with either professional body - Social Care Wales / Social Work England can be considered. No sponsorship provided. Please only apply if you meet this criteria.

Contact Sarah Leigh at Hoop Social Work in Cardiff today on 02922 400519 for an informal chat.