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Work for an "Outstanding" Authority: Kinship Fostering Role

Role: Supervising Social Worker - Kinship Fostering Team

Location: Manchester City Council (Mainly Office-Based)

Pay Rate: £35.00 per hour

Contract: Full-Time, Ongoing

Ofsted Rating:GRADED 'OUTSTANDING' If you are an experienced Fostering Social Worker, you know how crucial it is to work within a system that actually works. Manchester City Council's Children's Services were recently graded 'Outstanding' by Ofsted-proving that their leadership, practice standards, and team structures are among the absolute best in the country.

We are looking for a skilled, driven Supervising Social Worker to join their high-performing Kinship Fostering Team. If you want a role that sharpens your assessment skills, provides immense career credibility, and keeps you at the cutting edge of modern social work, this is your next step.

This is a specialized, high-profile position where your clinical assessments will directly influence court decisions and secure stable futures for children within their extended families:

• Court-Directed Assessments: Utilize expert assessment skills to evaluate family and friends (kinship) foster carers under intense scrutiny, producing robust, analytical reports for legal proceedings.

• Fostering Compliance: Apply a deep understanding of National Fostering Regulations and National Minimum Standards to ensure all kinship placements are safe, compliant, and supportive.

• Safeguarding Vigilance: Draw on your core child protection experience to identify potential risks, ensuring vulnerable children are robustly protected within family networks.

• Duty Rotation: Participate in the team's out-of-hours duty rota as required, providing responsive support to families when urgent matters arise outside normal office hours.

Because this is an "Outstanding" authority handling complex legal deadlines, the hiring managers are looking for an exceptional level of professional competence:

• The Blueprint: A recognized Social Work degree and active registration with Social Work England.

• Assessment Pedigree: Proven experience in formulating complex fostering or kinship assessments. Excellent time management and the ability to strictly meet tight court deadlines are non-negotiable.

• Frontline Knowledge: A strong background in statutory childcare, child protection, or fostering regulations.

• Presence: Comfort with a mainly office-based environment, allowing you to collaborate directly with a high-performing team.

• Premium Pay: A highly lucrative, stable rate of £35.00 per hour.

• The 'Outstanding' Advantage: Working within an Ofsted 'Outstanding' framework means you benefit from stellar administrative support, excellent resources, and flawless leadership.

• Career Catalyst: Having Manchester City Council's kinship team on your CV opens major doors for future leadership and consultancy roles.

Slots within Manchester's outstanding services are highly competitive and fill rapidly.

Randstad Care acts as an employment business when supplying temporary staff and as an employment agency when introducing candidates for permanent employment with a client. Randstad Care is an equal opportunities employer and decisions are made on merits alone.

Did you know that Randstad Care have been awarded a place on the National Clinical Staffing Framework for the NHS? This means we will be able to bring you more opportunities within nursing & midwifery and clinical staffing.

Our client Shropshire council is looking for a Qualified social worker to join their Kinship fostering team.

Key Responsibilities

• Complete Form K assessments to assess connected persons as foster carers.
• Undertake viability assessments to inform early permanence planning.
• Carry out SGO assessments, including support plans and court reports.
• Provide regular supervision and support to approved kinship foster carers.
• Support carers to manage placement challenges, contact arrangements, and transitions to permanence.
• Work closely with children's social workers and multi-agency partners to ensure coordinated care planning.
• Ensure all work is child-centred, evidence-based, and within statutory timescales.

About You

• Qualified Social Worker registered with Social Work England.
• Experience in:
• Kinship/connected persons fostering (Form K)
• SGO assessments and permanence planning
• Viability assessments
• Supporting and supervising foster carers
• Strong analytical and report-writing skills for court and panel.
• Confident in managing risk, safeguarding, and complex family dynamics.
• Committed to achieving stable, safe outcomes for children.

Benefits of working with Remedy

• A personal one-one service from your highly experienced dedicated consultant.
• Top tier supplier across London giving us first access to jobs
• Referral bonus - up to 250 per person placed.
• Double payrolls each week.

Terms & Conditions apply

You will be required to fully register with Remedy for all locum positions.

Remedy Social Care is a APSCo Standard agency and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the vulnerable. Successful applicants will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the DBS. Our objective is to be an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from everyone with suitable skills and ability regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, gender, disability, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief. All applications will be accepted and reviewed solely on merit.

Our client Surrey council is looking for a Senior Social Worker to join their Fostering Kinship Team.

Specific areas of work will vary depending on the team but will include:

• triage of contacts to the service to ascertain whether contacts from families, members of the community and partner organisations meet the threshold for a statutory social work assessment of significant impairment of a child's health/development or significant harm, with appropriate information from referrers and the consent of the family (except when over-ridden by a team manager to protect a child from further significant harm);
• to provide an assessment of the needs of family members, their strengths and any risks to children's health/development or significant harm to the child/ren and develop SMART plans that will meet the needs of family members and reduce risks to children, in conjunction with children and their families;
• to work with partners to meet those needs and monitor progress via child in need and core group meetings involving families, young people and relevant professionals.
• to conduct child protection investigations where a multi-agency strategy discussion considers there are grounds to believe the child has or is likely to suffer significant harm and to involve families in developing plans for change which will reduce the risk of significant harm and keep children in their families wherever possible.
• where children cannot be adequately cared for within their families or their families cannot be engaged to access services that would support them to change and the significant harm threshold is reached, to initiate discussions to seek agreement for s20 or initiate planned or emergency legal proceedings to ensure children are protected in line with departmental policy, procedures and relevant legislation.
• to work with colleagues in commissioning, fostering and adoption to identify high quality placements for children that will promote keeping children with their siblings and engage in timely care planning so children are placed in stable long-term homes where their health and development as well as education and training needs are supported and they can strengthen their resilience to lead a happy and stable adult life

Casework Management

• Take professional responsibility as directed for managing a caseload which will include individuals, children, families and carers who require support and guidance. Enable them to identify their needs and plan support to meet those needs using the full range of options, seeking advice and support where appropriate.
• Demonstrate confident and effective judgement about risk and accountability in decision making.

Assessment and Review

• Use assessment procedures discerningly in response to the presenting needs and to ensure that a proportionate assessment is completed in a way that enables maximum participation.

Advice and Guidance

• Provide information, advice and guidance in line with current national legislation and to recognise the need for, and appropriately signpost to other agencies, services or providers.

Safeguarding

• Understand the forms of harm and their impact on people and be able to identify safeguarding concerns.
• Where relevant and with support undertake assessment and planning for safeguarding.

Staff Development

• Share and present professional knowledge and expertise with colleagues within the team.
• When appropriate provide professional reflective supervision to staff who are not professionally qualified.

Benefits of working with Remedy

• A personal one-one service from your highly experienced dedicated consultant.
• Top tier supplier across London giving us first access to jobs
• Referral bonus - up to 250 per person placed.
• Double payrolls each week.

Terms & Conditions apply

You will be required to fully register with Remedy for all locum positions.

Remedy Social Care is a APSCo Standard agency and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the vulnerable. Successful applicants will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the DBS. Our objective is to be an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from everyone with suitable skills and ability regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, gender, disability, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief. All applications will be accepted and reviewed solely on merit.

Social Worker

Case load: approx. 14 foster carers
Current working from home policy: 3 days in office
Team name: Fostering

The Supervision and Support of Foster Carers and the safeguarding of children and young people in their care.

The Supervising Social Worker supervises foster carers in Croydon assisting with the recruiting, assessing, supervising, training, and supporting foster carers and children in their homes.

Promoting and ensuring that Croydon provides quality, professional fostering services for children and young people.

To undertake a range of statutory duties in accordance with the Children Act 1989 and in relation to children and their families who are in need/ in need of protection, and other child care services.

Promote and lead innovation with ideas of new ways of working from recognised sites of excellence.

Supervising Social Worker

Salary up to 39,547 per annum + 4,500 car allowance

Yorkshire

NonStop Consulting is working with an Independent fostering Agency with a Good Ofsted rating in the Yorkshire area to help them find a Supervising Social Worker who can join them on a permanent basis.

They are a therapeutic fostering agency and they offer flexibility with home working.

Benefits:

• Very good salary: 39,547 per annum + 4,500 car allowance
• Good Ofsted rating
• therapeutic Independent Fostering Agency
• Friendly and supportive team environment
• Manageable caseload (10 - 13 foster families)
• Ongoing training
• Interviews available quickly so you can secure a new role as soon as possible

Key Responsibilities:
The Supervising Social Worker will oversee a small caseload of about 10 - 12 foster families.

Requirements:

• Qualified Social Worker
• experience in fostering, child protection or looked after children teams
• Full driving licence

If you believe this opportunity is the right match for your skills and experience, please submit your CV (ideally in Word format) via this site.

Supervising Social Worker

Location: North Wales

Salary: 42,000 per annum

NonStop Consulting is looking for a permanent Supervising Social Worker who can join a well established Independent Fostering Agency with an excellent reputation in the North Wales area.

They are a not for profit fostering agency and they are therapeutic. They offer hybrid working, allowing you to have a good work - life balance.

Benefits:

• Very good salary: 42,000 per annum
• therapeutic Independent Fostering Agency
• Friendly and supportive team environment
• Manageable caseload (10 foster families)
• 31 days paid holiday plus 8 annual bank holidays.
• 45p per mile for business travel.
• Flexible working arrangements (volunteer days policy).
• Family friendly policies.
• IT equipment and mobile phone provided.
• An hour a week of live, expert led activities through the Annual Employee wellbeing Programme.
• Menopause Policy and free Menopause Clinician Appointments.
• Pension Scheme.
• Fantastic learning and development opportunities for all roles.
• Interviews available quickly so you can secure a new role as soon as possible

Key Responsibilities:
The Supervising Social Worker will oversee a small caseload of 10 foster families located around around North Wales and Chester area.

Requirements:

• Qualified Social Worker
• experience in fostering
• Full driving licence

If you believe this opportunity is the right match for your skills and experience, please submit your CV (ideally in Word format) via this site.

Therapeutic Supervising Social Worker

Location: Kent

Salary: 46,000 per annum

NonStop Consulting is working with a therapeutic Independent Fostering Agency with a Good Ofsted rating in the Kent area in order to help them find a Supervising Social Worker who can join them on a permanent basis.

They offer flexibility with home working and a very good salary that can go up to 46,000 per annum.

Benefits:

• Very good salary: 46,000 per annum
• Good Ofsted rating
• therapeutic Independent Fostering Agency
• Friendly and supportive team environment
• Manageable caseload (7 foster families)
• Ongoing training
• Interviews available quickly so you can secure a new role as soon as possible

Key Responsibilities:
The Supervising Social Worker will oversee a small caseload of 7 foster families located around Kent and South London area.

Requirements:

• Qualified Social Worker
• experience in fostering
• Full driving licence

If you believe this opportunity is the right match for your skills and experience, please submit your CV (ideally in Word format) via this site.

As Supervising Social Worker (SSW), you will be responsible for acting as a link worker for Foster Carers and looked after children. The role of SSW is a key position that brings together the needs of looked after children and young people, the support and management of foster carers, liaison with the placing authority and the administration and delivery of the service.

Responsibilities and Job specifics

As Supervising Social Worker, you will be responsible for:

• Delivery
• Quality
• Development
• Finance

Supervising Social Worker

Salary: up to 40,000 per annum

NonStop Consulting is working with one of the most reputable Independent Fostering Agencies in the South West of England area in order to help them find a Supervising Social Worker who can join them on a permanent basis.

This role offers a lot of flexibility with home working, allowing you to have a good work - life balance.

Benefits:

• Very good salary: 40,000 per annum
• Good Ofsted rating
• Friendly and supportive team environment
• Manageable caseload (10 foster families)
• Ongoing training
• Interviews available quickly so you can secure a new role as soon as possible

Key Responsibilities:
The Supervising Social Worker will oversee a small caseload of about 10 foster families located around Somerset.

Requirements:

• Qualified Social Worker
• experience in fostering, child protection or LAC
• Full driving licence

If you believe this opportunity is the right match for your skills and experience, please submit your CV (ideally in Word format) via this site.

Supervising Social Worker

Salary up to 39,547 per annum + 4,500 car allowance

NonStop Consulting is working with an Independent fostering Agency with a Good Ofsted rating in the Lincolnshire area to help them find a Supervising Social Worker who can join them on a permanent basis.

They are a therapeutic fostering agency and they offer flexibility with home working.

Benefits:

• Very good salary: 39,547 per annum + 4,500 car allowance
• Good Ofsted rating
• therapeutic Independent Fostering Agency
• Friendly and supportive team environment
• Manageable caseload (10 - 13 foster families)
• Ongoing training
• Interviews available quickly so you can secure a new role as soon as possible

Key Responsibilities:
The Supervising Social Worker will oversee a small caseload of about 10 - 12 foster families located in the Lincolnshire area.

Requirements:

• Qualified Social Worker
• experience in fostering, child protection or looked after children teams
• Full driving licence

If you believe this opportunity is the right match for your skills and experience, please submit your CV (ideally in Word format) via this site.