The Role of the Supervising Social Worker
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Supervising social workers have an essential role to play in foster care and are a key link between the fostering service and foster carers. However, the importance of this role to successful foster care is often overlooked. The supervising social worker must provide support and advice to foster carers, while fulfilling their role as supervisor, ensuring that the fostered child feels secure and is thriving, and verifying that the carer meets the fostering service’s requirements. The role also involves many challenges; workers must, for example, build close professional relationships while maintaining appropriate boundaries, manage allegations against carers, work with carers who may present challenges, and deal with their own feelings in emotional situations. It is essential for anyone taking on this role, or managing supervising social workers, to understand these varied demands, and the need to be a supporter, teacher, inspector, assessor, coach, mediator, networker, colleague, and counsellor.
This authoritative guide provides a solid practical grounding in what the role of the supervising social worker entails, and how to successfully meet its demands. The guise is illustrated throughout by case studies from experienced social workers, who provide important insights by discussing their experiences and how they handled various challenges.
This comprehensive, considered and highly practical guide is a vital learning tool and companion for all supervising social workers.
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