Salary Range: £46,067 - £49,131 (based on experience) + Travel Allowance
Location: 5 Pancras Square, London, N1C 4AG
Hours per week: 36
Contract type: Permanent
Closing date: Wednesday 31st July 2024 at 23:59
Interviews to be held: week commencing 12th August 2024

About Camden

‘Camden is listening to everyone, including you. We’re giving a platform to people inside and outside our community. Because, we’re not just home to the UK’s fast-growing economy. We’re home to the most important conversations happening today. And we’re making radical social change a reality, so that nobody gets left behind. Here’s where you can help decide a better future for us all.

About the team/service

The Family, Friends and Fostering Service provides alternative accommodation for looked after children whilst also focusing on securing permanent stable families for children who are not able to remain within the care of their family of origin, without unnecessary delay. In this role you will have the opportunity to work with professionals of every discipline. With a remit spanning assessing, training, and supporting carers, matching and supervising placements, progressing care planning and service development, you are guaranteed different challenges every day. The role demands close collaboration and good working relationships across the integrated service and CLA team, FIS teams and Care Experience team to deliver an integrated approach to child care and permanence planning.

What You’ll Be Doing / How You’ll Be Involved

We are looking for a highly motivated, enthusiastic, individual to join our Family, Friends and Fostering Service. Camden is committed to proving high quality care to Children Looked After and Young People, and in doing so, raise the profile of fostering and kinship care to ensure all children have positive experiences whilst living away from their parents and/or families. We have a great opportunity for a fostering and permanence social work role in one of London’s most diverse and vibrant boroughs. We want people who will focus on our carers, take responsibility, work together and find better ways of doing things. So if you’re full of ideas, enthusiasm, hardworking values, and have a strong interest in improving fostering and kinship services and securing permanence for all children, then Family, Friends and Fostering Service is the right place for you.

We take pride in getting it right first time and you will receive the training and support you deserve to help you deliver for this already first-rate service from day one. If you have the commitment, drive, and ability to deliver high service standards across the borough, then you are the person we are looking for.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and will require an Enhanced DBS. Please note Camden also offers the DBS update service.

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All About You

To find out more about what it is like to work at Camden, meet some of our People by visiting 'www.camdenjobs.co.uk/our-stories'.

To be considered for this exciting opportunity its essential the successful candidates holds a relevant Social Work qualification and is registered with Social Work England.

You will bring to the role sound knowledge of the legislative framework relating to children, particularly the Children Act 1989 and all legislation related to family and friends’ carers, Fostering and Special Guardianship Regulations. You will also have a good understanding of the recent legal changes and trends within the family court system.

You will be able to demonstrate skills in dealing with complex issues within the assessment and support of carers and have experience of group work particularly in relation to foster carers and kinship carers.

With your experience, you will bring to the role the ability to deal with conflict effectively, involving and signposting other people and services where applicable. You will be a creative thinker, self-reliant and resilient, knowing how to respond to situations in a positive and effective way to gain successful outcomes in difficult situations.

What We Offer

At Camden, you’ll receive a host of benefits including:

27 days annual leave for new starters, rising to 31 days after 5 years
Local Government Pension Scheme
Flexible working opportunities
Interest free loans
Access to our incredible staff networks
Career development and training
Wellbeing support and activities

Visit 'www.camdenjobs.co.uk/staff-benefits' for more details.

Inclusion and Diversity

We want Camden Council to be a great place to work and to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and those of Other Ethnicities, LGBT+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to our residents so that equalities and justice remains at the heart of everything we do.

To discover more about Camden and our commitment towards diversity, equality and safeguarding, please visit https://www.camdenjobs.co.uk/inclusion-and-diversity

Asking for Adjustments

Camden is committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and as accessible as possible for everyone. This includes making adjustments or changes for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions. If you would like us to do anything differently during the application, interview or assessment process, including providing information in an alternative format, please contact us on 020 7974 6655, at resourcing@camden.gov.uk or post to 5 Pancras Square, London, N1C 4AG.

Anonymised Application – in keeping with Camden’s commitment to inclusion the recruitment to this role is anonymised and supports the objective of reducing the impact of unconscious bias.

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