An exciting opportunity has arisen for one full time qualified Social Worker in the Kinship
Fostering Team, Childrens Placement Service, based in Shrewsbury.

This is a new, developing team with a clear focus to provide support and permanence for
the looked after children of Shropshire. The team's aims are to identity, assess and support
potential kinship foster carers through their journey of becoming approved foster carers, to
obtaining Special Guardianship Orders where appropriate.

The successful candidate will primarily assess and carry a caseload of kinship foster carers
with the long-term aim of supporting them to secure permanence through Special
Guardianship. The successful candidate will support and supervise carers as they move
towards obtaining a Special Guardianship Order, providing permanence for Shropshire's
looked after children and young people. The role will also involve carrying out viability
assessments, kinship fostering assessments and SGO assessments to court timescales.

We are looking for qualified social workers who have enthusiasm, positivity, flexibility, the
ability to work to tight times scales and have a commitment to contributing to the
development of the team and our foster carers. The suitable candidate will work towards
supporting our carers to ensure a positive, safe and nurturing experiences for children and
young people while supporting the connected families towards permanence.