Home Based – Full Time (37.5 hours per week) or 4 days (30 hours per week)
Capstone Foster Care is a well-established fostering organisation, our vision is to make a difference to the lives of disadvantaged children and young people, supporting carers to do an important job, really well.
Working for Capstone Foster Care as a Supervising Social Worker you will have the unique opportunity to work for a company that is owned by its employees, as an Employee Ownership Trust. Employee Ownership Trusts result in improved employee wellbeing, staff engagement and a sense of achievement. We are able to invest more in Learning and Development and pay all our staff annual salary increments.
As a Supervising Social Worker, you will be looking after a very manageable caseload of foster families. Working in partnership with other team members to provide a high quality and safe service for our foster families and the children/young people they look after.
There will be some occasional evening and weekend work and you will be part of the out of hours rota. The position is home based.
In return we offer:
- Annual salary enhancement
- Home based, flexible working allowing a work/life balance
- Excellent training and development opportunities
- Holidays starting from 27 days plus Bank Holidays plus an extra day for your birthday!
- Additional holiday purchase scheme
- Foster Talk membership
- Health Cash Plan
- Employee Assistance membership
- Pension
- Wellbeing and fitness app membership
As a Supervising Social Worker in the team, you must have the ability to:
- Manage your own caseload whilst meeting deadlines
- Evidence experience in frontline social work in Childcare
- Demonstrate strong analytical and assessment skills
- Have the ability to effectively communicate with children and their parents
- Promote great outcomes for all children and young people looked after by Capstone Foster Care.
- Form F Experience is desirable.
Applicants must have:
- A relevant Social Work qualification and be SWE registered
- Ideally experienced within fostering or adoption
- Knowledge of fostering and childcare legislation
- Be eligible to work within the UK
- Have a full driving licence and transport
If you are enthusiastic, motivated and feel you are able to share our vision we would love to hear from you. Come and to be part of our exceptional team!
Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people is enshrined within Capstone Foster Care policy and practice. We expect our employees to share this commitment with us.
We are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace. We welcome and value individuals of all backgrounds and experiences, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: Up to £42,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Additional leave
- Company pension
- Employee discount
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Referral programme
- Work from home
Application question(s):
- Have you completed any Form F assessments within the last 12 months?
Licence/Certification:
- Driving Licence (required)
- SWE registration (required)
Work Location: Remote
