Fostering Social Worker - Young Refugee Team

Our fostering service are currently developing a supported lodgings service with a particular focus on supporting young refugees and targeted recruitment of family-based care for young refugees.   We are looking for an enthusiastic and passionate Senior Social Worker to join our established fostering team to assess, supervise, support and motivate our supported lodgings hosts and foster careers to enable them to provide the very best of care for our children and young people.

We would particularly welcome applications from qualified experienced social work practitioners with interest in this area and/or with relevant experience to support the service in this exciting new development. 

If you would like an informal discussion or would like further information, please contact either:

karen.rummens@sheffield.gov.uk or clare.robinson@sheffield.gov.uk

We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under-represented groups.  We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled and LGBTQ+ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly.

It is a great time to join us and we welcome your application.

 Under the Disability Confident Scheme, disabled applicants, who meet the essential criteria of this job, are guaranteed an interview.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety of children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff to share this commitment.  All successful candidates will be required to complete an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check.

If you are appointed to this role, your starting salary will be at the bottom of the grade. If you provide payslip evidence that your basic pay is greater than the bottom of the grade, we will consider starting you at the point of minimum advantage within the grade.

Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council, including reduced hour contracts, working part time or as a job share.