Supervising Social Worker
| Posting date: | 14 July 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 August 2025 |
| Location: | Leicester, le3 8ra |
| Company: | Leicestershire County Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 5658 |
Summary
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: County Hall Glenfield Leicester LE3 8RA
Worker Category: Field Based Worker
Salary: £34,350 - £41,373 per annum (pro-rata for part-time) Plus a market supplement of £3,283 (pro-rata for part-time)
Working Hours: 30 hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 20th July 2025
Interview Date(s): TBC
About the Role
We have an exciting role of a supervising social worker within the kinship support team.
We are looking for a qualified social worker with experience in fostering services or statutory social care.
The role involves providing support to approved kinship foster carers with the children in their care, and it includes:
- Providing regular supervision to the kinship foster families.
- Supporting the kinship foster families to meet the Fostering Services National Minimum Standards.
- Providing practical and emotional support to the kinship foster families as well as advice and guidance.
- supporting and providing opportunities for the learning and development of the kinship foster families.
- Completing ongoing assessments of the kinship foster carer’s suitability to continue to care for the children in their care, including annual review reports.
- Dealing with the different daily challenges of kinship placements.
A DBS-enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.
For information on our approach to the recruitment of ex-offenders, please see our policy statement.
About You
To apply for this post, you must have:
- Social Work degree or equivalent, e.g. CQSW, DipSW (with a specialism in children’s services).
- Post-qualification experience of working with children and families.
- The ability to prioritise effectively across a wide range of competing demands to meet deadlines.
- Knowledge of Childcare legislation and LSCB procedures, particularly in relation to child protection.
- The Ability to communicate clearly (demonstrating the use of communication/engagement tools) with children, young people, parents/carers, colleagues and other professionals.
- The ability to communicate clearly and accurately, both orally and in writing, with a wide range of people, including representatives from other agencies, using skills of negotiation and persuasion
- Ability to undertake assessments and reports to a high standard.
You must also have an understanding of and commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.
In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are keen to support employees in balancing their working lives with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances while still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style that determines where it can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories on the Our Working Styles page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Fred Luneta - Team Manager
Telephone: 0116 305 2090
Email: Fred.Luneta@leics.gov.uk
How to Apply
Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.
To apply for this job, please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement explaining how you meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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