Senior Practitioner - Fostering Team
Content + Source + Freshness • 12 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
High-value position with competitive salary and opportunities to lead in fostering services for children.
- Salary: Up to £44,000/year in fostering services
- Significant role in shaping foster care quality and standards
- Mentorship opportunities for developing new social workers
- Emotional challenges associated with complex casework
Pros
- Attractive salary of up to £44,000 per annum
- Role directly impacts children's placements and care
- Potential for leadership in nurturing and developing foster care processes
Cons
- May involve complex casework requiring extensive collaboration
- Can have demanding emotional workloads
- Balancing multiple stakeholders can be challenging
Who it's for
Senior • Full-time onsite
Good fit
- Experienced fostering professionals
- Social workers committed to child welfare
- Individuals looking to lead in social work settings
Not recommended for
- New social workers without experience in fostering
- Those resistant to intensive collaboration and communication
- Candidates looking for purely administrative roles
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
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Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Senior Practitioner within the Fostering Team to work full time based in Lydd, Kent.
The salary for this permanent Senior Practitioner job is up to £44,000 per annum.
Main duties:
- Maintain records of placements, i.e. case recording, placement agreements, assessment reports, carer reviews, carers supervision and child progress reports.
- Attend and participate in childcare reviews, case conferences and other meetings as appropriate.
- Liaise with the managers regarding referrals, matching considerations and meetings and carry out negotiations between Credo Care and placing authorities with respect to the placement of children and take a lead on the placement of children with foster carers you supervise.
- Undertake screening calls, initial home visit to prospective foster carers.
- Take part in the emergency out of hours service.
- To chair social work meetings in the absence of the Regional Manager.
- Attend social work meetings on a regular basis to share information regarding children in placement.
- Support the Regional Managers and Directors in leading practice and work on quality improvements and specific projects.
- Ensure that the child’s care plan is caried out in accordance with the requirements of the placing authority and in consultation with the child’s social workers, foster carers, parents, etc, as necessary.
- Undertaking training as and when required.
- Maintain a professional image and standard of presentation, both personally and corporately.
- Work at all times in accordance with Credo Care’s policies, procedures and ethos and under the guidance of regulatory framework, including the National Minimum Standards.
- Undertake any other duties at the request of your line manager or directors, dependent on the postholder’s areas of expertise, knowledge and skills and with regard to the level of responsibility afford by the post held.
Requirements of this Senior Practitioner job:
- Social work qualification with registration with Social Work England.
- Experience in managing social work caseloads and supervising others.
- Experience of community and/or group work.
- Knowledge of children’s health and social care systems, agencies, and relevant legislation.
Contact:
This Senior Practitioner job is advertised by Charlie Reeve; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.
As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.
Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).
With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.
Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.
