Barnardo's Scotland Fostering Edinburgh have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Supervising Social worker
to join our busy team on a Full Time (37 hours) permanent basis.
Location: The successful candidate will work on a hybrid basis with their office base in Edinburgh, however some
meetings and training occur Scotland Wide.
As a Supervising Social Worker, you will work within a team of supervising social workers, children's workers,
therapists, education liaison worker, managers, and admin staff responsible for the recruitment and support of
foster carers who provide care to looked after children and young people who are referred to the service from
the Local Authority.
Some of the key responsibilities are:
- Work alongside others in providing support and advice to carers being able to demonstrate initiative whilst also
being part of a team
- Ensure that Children & Young Peoples welfare remains paramount and central in
all aspects of the service.
- Ensure the voice of children/young people and carers/adopters are
represented in the service through engaging in and where appropriate lead in the delivery of participation and
consultation activities.
- Deliver relevant training to Barnardo's cohort of foster carers and
adopters to the relevant standards on both a group and individual basis and provide feedback to enable training
materials to be updated to remain relevant and effective.
- Be flexible to respond to the needs of young
people, carers and colleagues.
Ideal Candidate's must haves:
- Demonstrate both excellent written and verbal communication skills, with experience of Fostering assessments or
similar.
- Have a good understanding of the legislation and National Standards we work
within.
- Relevant Social Work Qualification such as DipSW, CSS, CQSW
- Valid Social Work
Registration with SSSC.
- Demonstrable and applied knowledge of child protection
procedures.
- Previous post qualifying experience in childcare setting settings and/or pre- qualifying
work experience in Family Placement
- Hold a full UK driving licence with access to their own
vehicle.
History of Service
Barnardo's has well over 100 years of experience delivering fostering and adoption services across the UK.
Our fostering service in Scotland has been operational for over 18 years and rated ‘Good' across most areas from
Care Inspectorate. Our fostering Service is supported by Practice Managers, comprising of new and experienced
team members. This team is supported by experienced administrative staff, and the work of the supervising social
workers, childrens worker (PW2) and a Psychotherapist. The Edinburgh team is the only Scottish Service operating
the Mockingbird model, supported by the fostering network.
When completing your application please refer to your skills, knowledge and experience in relation to the Person
Specification, Job Description and Additional Information document (if applicable) This should be done with an
understanding of the context of the service described.
Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed
closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible.
Pay & Reward Framework
We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment
to Barnardo's values. We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for
more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people.
For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and
progressive, which was rolled out in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our
People & Culture Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to belong, thrive and grow in their
colleague journey at Barnardo's and in time will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues in both
their career and their pay.
Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the
minimum to mid-point of the pay band – this ensures that pay steps are available to reward our colleagues
annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours. More details on
Barnardo's pay framework can be found upon application.
Benefits
Workplace Offer: What it means for you
The world of work has changed. We are understanding of what works best for our colleagues both current and future as
we look to embrace this new way of working. Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and
empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage
those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, at one of our
Collaboration Hubs or any combination of these.
- Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage
their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
- 26 days annual
leave plus bank holidays, increasing after 5 years service
- The ability to buy up to another 5 days
annual leave via our HolidayPlus scheme
- A host of family friendly leave options including company
Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
- Service related
sick pay from day 1
- Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from
Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own
contribution
- Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group
Personal Pension
- Cycle2work scheme
- Interest free season ticket loans
- Discounts and
cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays
and much more via our Benefit Portal
- 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
- Opportunity to
purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
- Free access to round the clock
employee assistance program for advice and support
- Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development
offer
*T&C's apply based on contract
About Barnardo's
At Barnardo's we believe in children – no matter who they are, what they have done or what they have been
through. Please read about our basis and values following the link below. You will be asked questions relating
to them as part of the recruitment process for this role.
Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) is reflected in our values and our practice, and we have
invested in this area of our work to ensure that we can deliver on our commitments to be an inclusive employer.
EDI is a key enabler of our purpose as a charity and we want to ensure that the diversity of our teams is
reflective of the communities we serve and that we continue to learn and develop our work with a focus on
inclusion. We particularly encourage applications from candidates from Black, Asian and Minoritised Ethnic
Communities, candidates who are LGBT+ and Disabled candidates.
Our basis and values