Senior Supervising Social Worker Full Time - 35 Hours Per Week Home Based TACT, the UK’s largest fostering and adoption charity now has over 500 dedicated carers, who look after over 600 children and young people across the country. Our reputation and growth rests upon our strength in providing successful placements. As a charity, we do not have shareholders who receive profits and we invest all of our surplus income into service, staff, carers, and children’s development.
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a national non-profit making organisation at a local level. We are interested in individuals for whom quality of service is paramount and in those who share our commitment to working in partnership with children and their foster carers in the development of the agency. The overall purpose of this role is to recruit, assess, train and support a diverse range of foster carers and placements. You are required to have the following experience:
While you will be expected to mainly cover Essex and surrounding areas on the borders of Essex (Sussex, Thurrock, Southend-on-Sea, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire and London Boroughs; Barking and Dagenham, Enfield, Havering, Redbridge and Waltham Forest). You will also be required to travel to the TACT East London Office to attend duty days and meetings. You will need to be DipSW, CSS or CQSW qualified and registered with the HCPC. An enhanced disclosure is also required and is requested for you by TACT. The successful candidate will be required to be on an out of hours’ rota and will be paid an allowance of £1,500 per annum (small teams allowance), once participating in the rota. You will also receive the £500 per annum home working allowance. TACT offer an excellent benefits package including 31 days paid holiday, flexible working arrangements, group income protection scheme, x10 death in service, stakeholder pension scheme, child care vouchers and fantastic learning and development opportunities. Please see the job information pack for further information. Closing Date: 13th September 2018 Interviews: 21st September 2018 at TACT East London (E18 2QL) TACT reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications, so we advise you to submit your application as early as possible to prevent disappointment. Further details and application forms here Local charity fostering hero, Ian Riley, has been chosen as one of 50 people on The Independent's Happy List. Now in its tenth year, the list is a collection of inspirational heroes and heroines whose kindness, courage and selflessness make Britain a better place to live. A senior support worker for our fostering service, Ian has been with Together Trust for over 25 years. Starting out in our residential homes and progressing into the fostering team, he has worked tirelessly to ensure that some of our most vulnerable young people experience as much joy and happiness as possible. Nominated for giving people hope and always turning up with a smile, it was Ian’s dedication and commitment to changing the lives of our vulnerable young people that saw him chosen for this year's Happy List. Not to mention the fact that he isn’t afraid to dress up as Santa for the residential Christmas party!
But dressing up as Santa at the residential Christmas party is just one of the many ways that Ian works to ensure that children in care have an equal chance in life. As part of a small but dedicated fostering team, Ian gets to know all of Together Trust’s foster carers, helping them to offer stability, warmth and guidance to the young people they support. Ian said: "25 years with our wonderful charity has gone so fast. I enjoy working alongside our young people and playing my part in helping them prepare for their future once they leave us for the big wide world." Find out more about Together Trust’s fostering service: https://www.togethertrust.org.uk/thinking-about-career-fostering Source: www.togethertrust.org.uk |
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