Social Care
Childrens' Services
Manchester City Council
Manchester City Council are looking to recruit exceptional committed and motivated social workers to join our fostering service. Specifically, there are two positions available within our Assessing role for foster carers to support our children with Manchester.
As an assessing social worker, you will be required to have a minimum of 2 years’ experience in children’s services and good knowledge of Fostering Minimum standards and The Fostering Regulation Services (England) 2011. Be able to provide a high level of support and challenge to foster carers to achieve positive outcomes permanence and stability, a good understanding of trauma informed practice and be able to develop and support foster carers to provide a secure base for cared for children. This is a unique opportunity as an assessing social worker in the fostering service, where you will assess general foster carers, conduct initial home visits, support recruitment and engagement events alongside the recruitment officer and undertaken Form F assessments using BAAF Form F assessment tool alongside our secure base practice model.
This rewarding role will be helping to make sure our children and young people experience foster families who are best placed to meet their care needs and with families who share Manchester's commitment to finding a loving foster family for every child who needs one.
We are looking for social workers with the right values, and enthusiasm for relationship strengths-based social work with children and families, and in return we will support you in gaining the skills to continue your professional development.
It is an exciting time to join our unique team where you will have the opportunity to work closely alongside our Greater Manchester partners and be involved in supporting the implementation of the centralised recruitment hub.
We’re the local government authority for Manchester, and have teams across the city helping to make this a great place to live for everyone. We’re proud to do local government differently, in a city with an international reputation for diversity, creativity, culture and passion.
When you join us, you’re joining a team of over 7,000 council staff helping to make our ambition for Manchester a reality. Whatever your role, you’ll be supporting our residents and communities to be the best they can be, and helping to build a Manchester that's fairer for everyone who lives, works, volunteers, studies or plays here.
To make our ambition a reality, every person we recruit needs to play their its part. It takes a certain type of behaviour, attitude and way of working to get Manchester where it wants to be. Our people and partners have agreed five ‘behaviours’ – the grounding for how we must work together and treat one another:
A career with us means you can be yourself, thrive, and build the career your talent and ambition deserve.
Creating an inclusive team at Manchester City Council
At Manchester City Council, we strive to create a fair and inclusive workplace that is as diverse as the communities we serve. We want to further increase the diversity of our workforce, in particular the number of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic staff and disabled staff at all levels of the Council. This advert is open to all applicants, and we would particularly encourage applications from candidates identifying with one or both of those characteristics.
If you want to find out more about the role, our ways of working, flexible arrangements or any workplace adjustments, please let us know by emailing jobs@manchester.gov.uk. If you are invited to interview, we will ask you if you require any adjustments for you to best demonstrate your suitability for the role in the interview process.
Guaranteed Interview Scheme
As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the below criteria:
Accessibility
As a Disability Confident Employer, we provide support for employees with physical or mental-health conditions, a disability or neurodiversity. Our workplaces are accessible by design, and we make workplace adjustments including providing aids, adaptations and equipment. These, combined with our flexible working policies such as disability-related leave, enable our employees to perform their role, thrive and be their authentic selves in work.
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When you join us
We want everyone to be able to be themselves at work and give their best. If you need additional support to undertake the duties of the role, we’ll make every effort to source any necessary aids, adaptations or equipment. If, however, any task proves to be unachievable, we will look at redesigning parts of the role.
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£34,834
contract
permanent
working hours
full time
application deadline
12 00 am
10th May 2024
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