Full Time Senior Supervising Social Worker – North East England
Building upon our reputation for delivering excellent outcomes for children, we are opening an office in the Gateshead area. We are looking for a dynamic, enthusiastic, highly-motivated individual with experience of recruiting, assessing and supervising foster carers. The social worker, alongside the Area Manager, will be the face of TACT for prospective carers and local authorities in the North East. They will need to share and promote our unshakeable commitment to the cause of looked after children and young people, and to the work we do to resolve trauma, build confidence, and improve their long term life chances.
TACT, the UK’s largest fostering and adoption charity, is bringing its vision and ethos to the North East. Formed in 1993, we now have over 500 dedicated carers, who look after over 600 children and young people across the country. Our reputation and growth rests upon our strength in providing successful placements. As a charity, we do not have shareholders who receive profits and we invest all of our surplus income into service, staff, carers, and children’s development.
Building upon our reputation for delivering excellent outcomes for children, we are opening an office in the Gateshead area. We are looking for a dynamic, enthusiastic, highly-motivated individual with experience of recruiting, assessing and supervising foster carers. The social worker, alongside the Area Manager, will be the face of TACT for prospective carers and local authorities in the North East. They will need to share and promote our unshakeable commitment to the cause of looked after children and young people, and to the work we do to resolve trauma, build confidence, and improve their long term life chances.
This is an exciting opportunity to be part the expansion of a national non-profit making organisation at a local level. We are interested in individuals for whom quality of service is paramount and in those who share our commitment to working in partnership with children and their foster carers in the development of the agency.
If you would like to be part of this exciting expansion and have the relevant skills and experience in fostering, we would like to hear from you.
The new office will be situated in Gateshead but you may need to work from home in the initial stages.
You will be expected, with guidance from the Area Manager, to develop services throughout the North East but particularly in the areas of Newcastle, Durham, Sunderland, Gateshead and the Tees Valley. Use of a car is essential to the role.
Initially, the post will focus on the recruitment of foster carers, and working in partnership with local authorities. It will also include the assessment and supervision of foster carers, along with the matching of children’s needs to their assessed skills, qualities and abilities.
You will need to be DipSW, CSS or CQSW qualified and registered with the HCPC. An enhanced disclosure is also required and is requested for you by TACT.
Previous applicants need not apply.
If you would like to receive an application pack, please contact HR on 020 8695 8146 or email [email protected].