Supervising Social Worker

Job Title: Supervising Social Worker Location: East Bergholt Office, with travel across the EFS geography Reports to: Fostering Team Manager / Registered Manager Hours: Full Time (35 hours per week) About Us Eastern Fostering Services is a therapeutic, child-centred Independent Fostering Agency rated Outstanding by Ofsted. We are committed to securing stable, healing, and lasting placements for children who have experienced trauma, loss, and adversity. We work within a trauma-informed framework and prioritise relationship-based practice to achieve the best outcomes for our children and young people. Job Purpose As a Supervising Social Worker, you will play a critical role in supporting and supervising foster carers who provide therapeutic placements to children with complex needs. You will ensure that every child is safeguarded, supported, and enabled to thrive, in line with the Fostering Regulations 2011 and the National Minimum Standards. Key Responsibilities 1. Support and Supervision Provide reflective, trauma-informed supervision to foster carers at least monthly (and more frequently as needed). Promote therapeutic parenting and emotional attunement in line with the agency''s therapeutic ethos (e.g. PACE, Dyadic Developmental Practice), promoting an understanding the adaptive behaviours that children can develop and display. Deliver individualised support to carers to promote placement stability, resilience, and child development. Ensure that foster carers understand ..... full job details .....