Brighter Futures for Children
Full Time, Permanent post
About usBrighter Futures for Children is a not-for-profit company, owned by, but independent of, Reading Borough Council. Although we are independent, we are very much part of the Reading Family. Our people enjoy all of benefits as other Council employees including membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and continuous service. We work closely with partners in the local community and key organisations including Reading Borough Council, policy, public health and voluntary groups. We are responsible for the delivery of children’s social care, early help & prevention, education services (including SEND). This also includes fostering and adoption, the Youth Offending Service and traded services with schools. Our main aim is to protect and enhance the lives of the children of Reading. We help families find long-term solutions to ensure children lead happy, healthy, and successful lives.
About the roleWe currently have vacancies for qualified social workers in our Children Looked After Team.
The Children Looked After Team consists of 7 social workers one of which is a Consultant Practitioner and one who is an ASYE and an Assistant Team Manager. We also have students in our team who provide great support and learning to the team. We are Corporate Parents for our children in care and seek to ensure that all children in care achieve permanency and have effective care planning. The team works closely with Independent Reviewing Officers, virtual school, permanency team and health to ensure that our children and young peoples’ needs are being met.
We aim to ensure that our social workers have all the tools they need to do an exceptional job. Our Consultant Practitioner is hands to coach, mentor and support our staff through complex and high-risk case work. We also have Camhs, and an Emotional Wellbeing Panel that is crucial to support us with the work we do with our children and young people. There is also reflective team supervision to support your learning.
We have also secured excellent training for all our staff through Research in Practice, and we are focussed on being a trauma informed service and all staff have access to this training. We value our social workers and will always encourage and motivate you learn and develop your skills to be the best social worker you can be for our children and young people in Reading.
If you think you might enjoy working at Brighter Futures for Children, you share our values, and you have a social work qualification and current professional social work registration with Social Work England, then we would really like to hear from you.
Our Offer
A competitive salary alongside a range of benefits including:
For any queries or an informal discussion, please feel free to contact the hiring manager – Christina Subh on: Christina.Subh@brighterfuturesforchildren.org
Closing date: 9 April 2023Interview date: To be confirmed
We look forward to hearing from you!