View social work vacancies in children's social care at Portsmouth City Council
We're making it easier for qualified and experienced social workers to join our team with fantastic new benefits, including a market supplement payment of up to £3,000, relocation assistance of up to £8,000, and new career progression pathways.
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Advanced Social Work Practitioner (Anti Racist Practice Specialism)
Current Vacancies
Social worker - Fostering (Kinship Care team)
The service
Portsmouth City Council's Children's Social Care service is committed to high standards and a culture of restorative practice. We are continuing to increase foster carer numbers and the menu of support to carers year on year. This is an exciting time to join our Fostering Service as we strive to further enhance outcomes for looked after children in the city. We are committed to professional development and the provision of training to staff.
The role
We are seeking a qualified and suitably experienced social worker to join our Fostering Service on a full-time, permanent basis. This is an ideal opportunity to develop specialist knowledge within the fostering sector. You will have the autonomy and responsibility to really make a difference. The successful candidate will be working with a child's extended family and friends who have put themselves forward as a potential carer. If you are enthusiastic and passionate in making a real difference in children's lives supporting them to remain in the care of their family, then we would like to hear from you.
Advanced social worker - Family Support & Safeguarding - South Locality
We have exciting opportunities for qualified social workers to join our Children and Families Directorate, in one of our Family Support & Safeguarding Teams (FSS). You will be based at the South Locality, Civic Offices, Portsmouth.
The successful candidate will have an opportunity to be based within one of our Family Support & Safeguarding Teams. Within this team you will be working to provide support under children in need or in need of protection where necessary, or when children have come into the care of Children's Social Care. You may be involved in working families under Public Law Outline (PLO) or within care proceedings. All of this will be undertaken with the support of your manager.
You will also play a leading role in practice development, help promote and sustain a learning culture and mentor less experienced staff.
Experienced social worker (Adoption)
The service
The adoption team is part of the children we care for service who support children and their families when adoption is considered as a permanent option for the child. Portsmouth City Council's adoption agency works in partnership with the regional adoption agency Adopt South which recruits and assesses prospective adoptive families. The adoption team collaborates with Adopt South to identify the best match for a child waiting for an adoptive family.The role
Working alongside the Adopt South family finding team, you will help identify prospective adopters for children subject to placement orders and for those children who need to move to fostering for adoption/early permanence families.Progressing the linking process through information sharing and presentation to adoption panel, you will prepare adoption placement reports and adoption support plans to enable the panel and subsequently the agency decision maker to consider the proposed link.
You will also support birth family members as they say goodbye to their children moving to adoption but also set up considered and appropriate Keeping In Touch arrangements so that these relationships can be maintained.
Experienced Social Worker - Fostering (Supervising and supporting approved foster carers)
The service
Our service is committed to high standards and a culture of restorative practice. We are continuing to increase foster carer numbers and the menu of support to carers year on year. This is an exciting time to join Portsmouth City Council's fostering service as we strive to further enhance outcomes for the children we care for. We are committed to professional development and the provision of training to staff and all our carers.The role
Supervising social workers manage and support a caseload of foster carers to provide excellent care to ensure the best outcomes for children we care for, supporting carers to apply a trauma informed approach in their care of children.The role is critical in supporting the carer to develop good relationships with children and their families, providing stable nurturing family homes for as long as the children need to be with them.
There is a range of care types within the fostering service, including the Mockingbird Model of Care with which supervising social workers are involved. Portsmouth provides comprehensive support to carers, including a duty rota system during working hours, training pathway, support groups, carer mentoring scheme, social events and an out of hours service to carers.
Experienced social worker - Family Support & Safeguarding - South Locality
We have exciting opportunities for qualified social workers to join our Children and Families Directorate, in one of our Family Support & Safeguarding Teams (FSS). You will be based at the South Locality, Civic Offices, Portsmouth.
The successful candidate will have an opportunity to be based within one of our Family Support & Safeguarding Teams. Within this team you will be working to provide support under children in need or in need of protection where necessary, or when children have come into the care of Children's Social Care. You may be involved in working families under Public Law Outline (PLO) or within care proceedings. All of this will be undertaken with the support of your manager.
