Social Worker for Foster Care

About the role

SOS Children's Villages promotes the good treatment of children through its Child Protection Policy. We are committed to promoting a safe organization, strongly condemning any case of child neglect and providing a response within our scope of action and sphere of influence. Likewise, we promote equal opportunities and diversity, fostering an inclusive environment where all people can develop professionally without distinction.

Within the Foster Care Program located in Telde, we are looking to hire a Social Worker to join the multidisciplinary team. You will assume the role of the reference professional for the service's foster care placements, performing tasks of evaluation, monitoring, accompaniment, and suitability assessment, as well as the preparation of the corresponding reports and technical documentation.

What you'll do

• Participation in the suitability assessment processes of foster families.
• Act as a facilitator between both belonging families (biological family and foster family) of the children and adolescents (NNA) in order to improve the quality of communication between them. Accompanying both in the discovery of new formulas in conflict management, reaching satisfactory agreements.
• Support biological and foster families in all phases of the foster care process.
• Planning and preparation of the design of the family intervention plan.
• Individual and family interviews and home visits.
• Preparation of relevant reports at each phase of the process: updating information and files concerning the project.
• Design and execution of training actions: participation in activities with the children and adolescents being fostered.
• Maintain the necessary coordination with the rest of the social agents involved in each case plan.
• Supervise and guide the family encounters of NNA.

What we're looking for

• Degree in social work
• Experience as a social worker in the residential field oriented towards childhood or social intervention in risk of social exclusion.
• Training in systemic therapy is valued.
• Training in gender violence prevention is valued.

What you'll get

Salary Remuneration: 1770 gross euros per month (14 payments).

Availability to work three afternoons per week. Schedule: continuous shifts, with two morning shifts (8h to 16h) and three afternoon shifts (11h to 19h).