Supervising Social Worker

Hours:

37.5 hours per week (plus out of hours support)

Please find full role description below and email your application form to  The application form can be downloaded below.

We ask that anyone that wants to apply for this role, first discuss this informally with the Team Manager, Vera Hadwen via email at  or call

Community Foster Care (CFC) is a Therapeutic Independent Foster Agency. We are also a charity with an important history based on principles of social justice and the power of communities. The children and young people we work with have experienced relational and developmental trauma. These experiences present multiple complexities, which require the love, security and sense of belonging provided by a nurturing family.

These families need to be resilient, highly skilled and well supported. We believe it takes a community to raise a child. As a therapeutic agency, we are exploring key approaches to refine how to achieve our mission.

To enable all children to grow up in a loving family.

To work in and with communities to grow the potential of people who can provide nurturing care through therapeutic foster parenting.

We use 3 core principles in our work with children and families:

Practice informed by psychodynamic and systemic approaches, attachment theory, and social justice.

A reflective culture

Collaborative and relational-based work

• Alignment with CFC core values.
• Prepared to bring your true and best self to the work
• Mental and physically resilient.
• Ability to think about what you did well and what you could have done better and how this impacted you and others.
• The ability to mentalise, to put themselves in others’ shoes.
• Prepared to be open to challenges from others.
• Willingness to tolerate significant exposure from professional networks and remain engaged as a team player.
• Commitment to engage in Therapeutic parenting approaches.
• Committed to ongoing personal development and training.
• Minded to collaborate with others in and across teams.