This role will be focused on completing SGO and Connected Person Assessments.
This post is based within the SGO Support Team, part of Newham’s Fostering and SGO Service. Our Fostering Recruitment and Special Guardianship Team leads on recruitment of foster carers, connected person and special guardians, quality assurance and supporting Permanency via special guardianship assessment.
Social workers in this team will assess their capacity to care for these children and manage contact whilst balancing competing relationships or identifying potential difficulties in the future; and will ensure DBS and medicals are completed and work closely with the child’s social worker whilst assessing wider familial support. SGO SWs will produce child centred SGO support Plans collaboratively with the child’s social worker. Providing a recommendation about the carer’s capacity is essential in addition to the legal framework required to sustain the placement plus a detailed plan of support.
If you have any questions relating to the role please contact Kuldip.Kaur@newham.gov.uk.
You are a qualified social worker who has completed their ASYE, and are registered with Social Work England.
We are looking for a social worker with experience and skills to undertake effective viability assessments and fuller detailed assessments of proposed connected person carers and special guardians. Experience in this area is essential for this role. As an assessing social Worker, you will also need strong analytical and report writing skills as the role requires reports and assessments for Agency Decision Maker ratification, Fostering Panel and Court.
We’re looking for social workers who have a genuine interest in a restorative, relationship based practice model drawing on systemic thinking to inform your approach to building effective relationships with children, young people and their families.