Member Job Opportunity: Community Foster Care - Business Support Officer (Placements & Finance)10/12/2022
Job Location: Gloucester Pay scale: £19,300 to £22,500 Hours: Full-time - 37.5 hours per week Closing date: 31st Jan 2023 Main Duties and Responsibilities
To run the organisation’s placement and referral management process
Please see full role description and email your application form to sarahs@communityfostercare.co.uk in the first instance. Full details and application documents here Member News: Community Foster Care - We weren’t ready for the John Lewis Christmas advert!17/11/2022
The John Lewis skateboarding foster dad has had us weeping all morning, since the release of their hotly anticipated annual Christmas advert earlier today. The John Lewis Christmas advert is very much a British institution at this point, so it’s always exciting when it first drops but we truly weren’t ready for this sweet fostering storyline. We won’t outline the plot, since you’ve probably ‘watched it about five times’ (to quote our Supervising Social Worker, Julia) but we just wanted to add our 2 cents in thanking the team at John Lewis for running a national campaign based around a foster care story. This kind of exposure, highlighting both the real life plight for children in care and the staggering numbers of looked after children in the UK will, undoubtedly, raise awareness and hopefully see an increase in much needed new foster families in coming forward. We also wanted to shout out our Fairer Fostering Partnership buddies, Action for Children, in partnering on the campaign - a big well done to the team. If you’re the type of person who loves helping others, goes that extra mile and have the space in your heart and home to take in a foster child/children we would love to hear from you (we promise you don’t have to learn how to skateboard!) Have you been inspired by the John Lewis Christmas ad? If you would like to know more about becoming a foster parent, take a look at our free information pack. Source: www.communityfostercare.co.uk We love to share positive fostering stories, so let us tell you about Casey… Casey, is a former foster child and now an independent young person. She lived with her CFC foster family for the last five years of childhood before ageing out of care. Casey has come up with an initiative that aims to provide foster children and young people coming into care and joining a new foster family, a welcome gift box containing all the essentials and a little note from her. Casey has been in the foster care system since she was very little. Being split from her mum and not knowing her siblings, she has faced a lot of adversity, instability and challenge and she continues to deal with the effects of developmental and relational trauma. In her time with Community Foster Care, Casey has been actively engaged with our charity and continues to work with us in any way she can in order to help other young people going through similar experiences. We wanted to shout about this latest positive story surrounding Casey and so we sat down with her to find out her motivation for this initiative. She bravely shares the painful memories of arriving at new foster homes with just a plastic bin bag holding her small amount of possessions. She tells of how those experiences left her with feelings of being unwanted and not belonging and how if she can provide any small comfort to other children feeling the same, that's what she's going to do. These welcome boxes are to let those children and young people know that there are people out there who understand what they're going through, that there are people who care and that there are more positive times coming. We are so proud of Casey for how far she has come and continues to go, how much self awareness she has and her selfless pursuit of helping others. As a fostering charity with a strong therapeutic approach, we know how important it is to cultivate lifelong links for young people but we also recognise that the adversity young people in care face, means they are far more vulnerable than those not living in care or coming out of foster care. Maintaining positive links can be very difficult for care experienced young people, so to continue growing that relationship with Casey is a real pleasure for the organisation and something we are very proud of. We hope you enjoy this little snippet of her story.
Source: www.communityfostercare.co.uk Member News: Community Foster Care - Re-write Normal - Our New Fostering Recruitment Campaign29/9/2022
“It was normal to cry every single day, it was normal to scream and shout at each other, it was normal to punch each other in the face, d’you know what I mean?” This week we are proudly launching our latest fostering recruitment campaign: Re-write Normal where we are asking people thinking about fostering, could you re-write what normal looks like for a child or young person in foster care? Could you make ‘normal’ look like kindness, patience, stability, consistency and love?
Our campaign follows the true story of Leigh* who has been in and out of foster care for most of her life. Leigh reflects on what ‘normal’ life looked like for her when she was in the care of her mum as a small child. She considers how her life might have been had she not come into care. “There’s things that - now I’m like ‘That’s not normal, that’s not okay’ but if I’d been through that throughout my life, I wouldn’t have known no different.” — Leigh Fostering can be a real challenge for foster parents because the reality, often, is that they’re caring for children and young people who have suffered a great amount of trauma in their lives. We wanted to share the truth of what this can look like, so when Leigh came to us wanting to share her story, we felt it would be a great fit for a campaign. We sat down with Leigh to hear her story in her own words and in doing so, the name and theme of the campaign came into fruition organically. “Growing up was very difficult for me. I had some very difficult trauma, difficult life experiences… it was normal for my mum’s partner to just walk in the house, start crashing things, start smashing things, getting really abusive towards my mum - that was normal.” — Leigh To hear Leigh’s words and read more about our Re-write Normal campaign, click the button below. Job Location: Flexible Pay scale: Voluntary - Expenses only Hours: Six meetings per year (3 Board / 3 subgroup) Role Summary
Community Foster Care’s (CFC) trustees are essential in ensuring that we can continue to strive towards our mission. As a trustee you will ensure that CFC remains on course with delivering its key activities. At CFC we are committed to creating a culture driven by our values and based on diversity, exploration, critical reflection, courage to challenge and belief in the power of people. Trustees have the overall legal responsibility for a charity. The law describes charity trustees as ‘the persons having the general control and management of the administration of a charity’ (Charities Act 2011, section 177). Charity trustees are those responsible under the charity's governing document for controlling the administration and management of the charity. This is the case regardless of the terminology used to describe the role. For CFC, the charity trustees are the board of trustees. The Role of the Board At its simplest, the role of the board of trustees is to ensure all of CFC’s assets are safeguarded and applied to the charitable purposes of CFC. The board of trustees must always act in the best interests of CFC, exercising the same standard of duty of care that a prudent person would apply if looking after the affairs of someone for whom they have responsibility. The trustee board must act as a group and not as individuals. Key requirements of which you should be aware Trustees are expected to attend an induction session with CFC prior to their first board meeting. Trustees are expected to attend all board meetings. Board meetings are held three times a year, usually in the late afternoon – early evening. The meetings tend to be held at our Kingsholm Office in Gloucester, but participants can attend via remote video call. From time to time there are additional meetings and planning sessions.
Main Duties and Responsibilities The duties of a trustee board member are to:
In addition to the above statutory duties, each trustee should use any specific skills, knowledge or experience they have, to help the board of trustees reach sound decisions. This may involve leading discussions, identifying key issues, providing advice and guidance on new initiatives, and evaluating or offering advice on other areas in which the trustee has particular expertise. What we require from all our employees and volunteers:
Community Foster Care is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children; applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service clearance at enhanced level. CVs will not be accepted in any circumstances; all applicants must complete an application form. Person Specification Each trustee must have:
Further details here Job Location: Bradford on Avon Salary: £29,751.41 - £32,097.40 (FTE) dependent on experience Hours: 7.5 hours per week. There is flexibility in when these hours could be worked but you would ideally have a presence on a Tuesday Closing Date for Applications - 5pm on 27th May 2022 We are searching for new talented, inspired people to join our crew. As a small community focused Charity, exciting things are happening, and we’re looking for new crew members to join our expedition. We’re propelled by our values and our belief to explore new ways to realise young people’s potential and achieve our mission.
What would you need to do?
What do we need from you?
Interested? For more information, download the job Description, below or contact us on 01452 840 999. To apply, please download and complete an application form and securely email it to SashaH@communityfamilycare.co.uk no later than 5pm on Friday 27th May 2022 Full details and application documents here Job Location: Lancaster Salary: £22,873.40 - £26,339.07 (FTE) dependent on experience Hours: 18.75 hours per week. Option for flexible working patterns across the week. Closing Date: - 5pm on 25th May 2022 We are looking for a Placement and Family Support Worker to work with children, young people and families to overcome challenges and adversity, enabling them to reach their potential. You will develop and call on a range of creative techniques and interventions that enable Children and Young People to thrive. From this secure confident position, we will enable them to take the next positive step. You will ensure we can evidence this progress.
What would you need to do?
What do we need from you?
Interested? Download the Job Description or contact Rae Edwards on 01452 849301 for more information. To apply please download and complete an application form and securely email it to RaeE@Communityfamilycare.co.uk no later than 5pm on Wednesday 25th May 2022 Full details and application documents here Job Location: Cumbria Pay scale: £28,884.87 to £37,270.80 dependent on experience plus £1095 essential car use, plus additional payment for out of hours on call circa £1834 Hours: Full Time - 37.5 hours per week (to start mid-June 2022) We are looking for either a Senior Supervising Social Worker or Supervising Social Worker dependent on experience to cover a maternity contract.
A (Senior) Supervising Social Worker at Community Foster Care will be driven to promote the Child or Young Person’s Ambitions or Dreams. They will do this by recruiting, enabling and enhancing foster families to provide safe, stable, loving, nurturing family homes. Children and Young People seeking to live within these families will have often experienced significant trauma and abuse. Enabling Children and Young people to thrive in our foster families will therefore require a number of special ingredients, which you will need to develop and nurture. Closing date: 30th April 2022 Full details and application documents here Job Location: Lancaster or Cumbria Pay scale: £38,409-£41,412 + £1095 (car allowance) + c.£2.6k Out of Hours payment based on 122 nights. Hours: Full Time - 37.5 hours per week Out of Hours: Managers OOH rota participant. Nightly payment: Weekday night Cost - £15.00. Weekend night cost - £30.00 As a Practice Manager (Fostering) at Community Foster Care you will be driven to promote the Child or Young Person’s ambitions and dreams, offering support to your team of Social Workers and reporting to the Registered Manager. You will do this by recruiting, enabling and enhancing foster families to provide safe, stable, loving, nurturing family homes. Children and Young People seeking to live within these families will have often experienced significant trauma and abuse. Enabling Children and Young people to thrive in our foster families will therefore require a number of special ingredients, which you will need to develop and nurture.
Closing date: 30th April 2022 Full details and application documents here Location: Gloucester or Lancaster (with the expectation to have a presence across both locations) Salary: £28,884-31,162 Hours: 30 hours per week Closing date: 12 noon Wednesday 2nd February 2022 Interview date: Provisionally 9th February 2022 at our Gloucester Office Role Summary
To co-ordinate one or more projects working with children, young people, and families to enable them to thrive through delivering high quality services. You will be responsible for supervising a small team of support workers as well as delivering 1:1 and group based interventions where required. Key drivers of considerations As a Support Co-ordinator, you will at all times:
Key requirements of which you should be aware:
- To meet the demands of your role; - To offer support to your team as required. Main Duties and Responsibilities Outcome Based Support Service
- crisis or admission into care; - return to home following a period in care; - supporting a family in order that the child can remain in a foster placement; - providing activity based interventions as required.
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