Location: Salford Office – Hybrid - (with regular travel across the Northwest area) Salary: £34,100 per annum Contract Type: Fixed Term Full Time Closing Date: 25 July 2024 Location: Northwest England, Salford Office – Hybrid - (with regular travel to support foster carers in the Northwest area)
Contract/Hours: Fixed Term Contract – Until April 30th 2025- Full Time - 37 hours per week. A bit about the role North West Fostering service offers fostering placements using a therapeutic framework which draws upon theory and evidence around attachment and trauma-informed principles to scaffold the support that we offer to children and young people. Our aim is to provide safe, stable, supportive homes for children and young people who have a history of attachment disruption, abuse, neglect and trauma. We also offer an innovative WRAP service that supports children and young people who are either in Local Authority/IFA fostering and whose placements are at risk of breakdown. The Wrap service is designed to help prevent placement breakdown and maximize stability for a young person. Click here for full job details Location: Homebased in the North East Salary: £38,500 per annum Contract Type: Permanent Full Time Closing Date: 26 July 2024 Location: Northeast England, Home based (with regular travel to support foster carers in the Northeast area)
Contract/Hours: Permanent, Full-time, 37 hours per week (flexible hours considered) Interviews will be held week commencing the week of 5th August 2024 A bit about the role Fostering Northeast is a small and developing service that offers fostering placements using a therapeutic framework. Holding a manageable caseload, you will be supported to draw upon theory and evidence around attachment and trauma-informed principles to scaffold the support that we offer to children and young people. This includes working closely with a team of clinical psychologists. Our aim is to provide safe, stable, supportive homes for children and young people who have a history of attachment disruption, abuse, neglect and trauma. How you'll help to create a brighter future We are looking for an outstanding Fostering Social Worker who can support carers from across the Northeast, you will make a difference by:
Click here for full job details Location: Working across Omagh and Fermanagh Salary: £32,000 per annum (pro-rata) Directorate: Children's Services Northern Ireland Contract Type: Fixed Term Part-Time Closing Date: 19 July 20
About the Role We are an Early intervention service working with children ages 0-18 years and their families in home and community settings. Our focus is on closely collaborating with children/young people and their parents/carers to address issues such as parental separation, emotional well-being, anxiety and behavioural challenges. Our aim is to support families in working together early on, exploring solutions within an approximately 12 week timeframe using the Solihull approach. As a Social Worker you'll be working within a small team, across Omagh and Fermanagh, providing early intervention support to families who don't meet the criteria for social services. As a Social Worker you'll be:
Click here for full job details Elijah Cruz - Digital Communications Officer With the first change of government in 14 years, we’d like to see Labour act quickly to address the huge challenges facing children and families across the country. Let’s look at how far Labour’s manifesto commitments go towards tackling the key challenges we're campaigning on... Click here for full article Salary: £34,100 per annum Location: Salford – Hybrid - (with regular travel to the Northwest area) Contract Type: Fixed Term Full Time Closing Date: 4 July 2024 A bit about the role
North West Fostering service offers fostering placements using a therapeutic framework which draws upon theory and evidence around attachment and trauma-informed principles to scaffold the support that we offer to children and young people. Our aim is to provide safe, stable, supportive homes for children and young people who have a history of attachment disruption, abuse, neglect and trauma. We also offer an innovative WRAP service that supports children and young people who are either in Local Authority/IFA fostering and whose placements are at risk of breakdown. The Wrap service is designed to help prevent placement breakdown and maximize stability for a young person. Support will focus on children in care with the most complex needs and with significant adverse childhood experiences. The service will use trauma informed practice and attachment theory and provide a range of evidence-based therapies including Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy, Theraplay, and PACE. Click here for full job details Location: Glasgow Salary: circa £41,000 per annum Contract Type:Permanent Full Time Closing Date:23 June 2024 Vulnerable children in the UK need your help
Wherever you work in the Action for Children family, you'll be helping to change the lives of the most vulnerable children in the UK. Last year, we helped more than 670,000 children and families across the UK. From direct work in communities to national campaigning, we are focused on making sure every child has a safe and happy childhood, and the foundations they need to thrive. Why Action for Children? Working here is more than a job. Everyone in the Action for Children family is passionate about protecting and supporting children. It's the sense of purpose that drives us every single day. Because we know that, when we work together, we can make a huge difference to bring lasting improvements to vulnerable children's lives. A bit about the role Action for Children's Fostering Service is a specialist fostering service that offers therapeutic care to children and young people who cannot be looked after at home. We offer the highest standard of care providing carers with excellent training, supervision, and support to achieve the best outcomes for the young people we look after. We have excellent Fostering Inspections and provide good quality of care to young people, always ensuring we listen to our young people every step of the way. You'll promote the highest standards of care and wellbeing for our young people, and guide and deliver training, to foster carers with opportunity to really get to know young people and support them on their journey. By thinking therapeutically and creatively (with and for) young people and ensuring best practice, you'll make a real and lasting difference. You'll be part of a team that values relational- based practice, as this is at the heart of all that we do! Our Service is growing, and as a Fostering Social Worker you'll be working in our Fostering Scotland team in our Head Office based in Glasgow. We're happy to discuss the frequency of office based work at the interview stage. Further details and application documents here Location: Inverness, Highlands Salary: Circa £41,000 per annum Contract Type:Permanent Full Time Closing Date:23 June 2024 Vulnerable children in the UK need your help
Wherever you work in the Action for Children family, you'll be helping to change the lives of the most vulnerable children in the UK. Last year, we helped more than 670,000 children and families across the UK. From direct work in communities to national campaigning, we are focused on making sure every child has a safe and happy childhood, and the foundations they need to thrive. Why Action for Children? Working here is more than a job. Everyone in the Action for Children family is passionate about protecting and supporting children. It's the sense of purpose that drives us every single day. Because we know that, when we work together, we can make a huge difference to bring lasting improvements to vulnerable children's lives. A bit about the role Action for Children's Fostering Service is a specialist fostering service that offers therapeutic care to children and young people who cannot be looked after at home. We offer the highest standard of care providing carers with excellent training, supervision, and support to achieve the best outcomes for the young people we look after. We have excellent Fostering Inspections and provide good quality of care to young people, always ensuring we listen to our young people every step of the way. You'll promote the highest standards of care and wellbeing for our young people, and guide and deliver training, to foster carers with opportunity to really get to know young people and support them on their journey. By thinking therapeutically and creatively (with and for) young people and ensuring best practice, you'll make a real and lasting difference. You'll be part of a team that values relational- based practice, as this is at the heart of all that we do! Our Service is growing, and as a Fostering Social Worker you'll be working in our Fostering Scotland team covering the Highlands. We're happy to discuss the frequency of office based work at the interview stage. Further details and application documents here Member News from Action for Children: How a life in foster care helped Jack achieve his dream11/6/2024
From a young age, both Jack’s parents struggled with addiction. But after his mum passed away when he was 14 years old, he decided to move into foster care. By doing so, he ensured he got the life he wanted. At a young age, Jack realised his homelife was different from his peers’. Both his Mum and Dad struggled with alcohol and drug addictions. This took a toll on Jack. Jack became the main caregiver at home. He would look after his mum and ensure she was okay before he thought of himself. This responsibility started to affect Jack’s schoolwork and social life. He couldn’t concentrate or put his mind to anything. He was always worrying “is my mum okay? Is my dad looking after her? Is my dad okay?” Jack also knew he couldn’t afford to fall behind at school. He said: “I couldn’t be bad at school because if I got a detention I couldn’t go home. […] I needed to be home to look after my mum. I had to make sure she was alright”. This also meant Jack missed out on social plans and after school activities – when his friends would go out, he rushed home. In 2014, Jack’s mum sadly suffered a stroke and passed away. He initially moved in with his uncle, but whilst trying to cope with the loss of his mum, Jack started caring for his younger cousins. Soon his behaviour started to deteriorate, and he was getting in trouble at school. “My behaviour at school was appalling. Eventually, I got put into a private unit at school – taken out of mainstream education to get my grades up because I was affecting other people’s learning.” Watch Jack's story Getting the support he deserved It was around this time that the school reached out to Action for Children for help. Jack was matched with support worker Chris and his life began to turn around. After Jack had been living with his uncle for six months, he was told they’d be moving away from his hometown. It was at this point Jack realised he could take control of his life again. He said: “I was in a good school with good people around me, so I made that choice to go into care.” He discussed his decision with Chris, who supported him every step of the way. Jack found a foster family who welcomed him with open arms. A brighter future growing up in care After moving into foster care, Jack’s future was looking bright. Going into care meant he had the freedom to start playing football after school. He started playing for an amateur grassroots team when he was 14. And by 16, he was offered a placement with a semi-pro team that went alongside his education. Jack’s dream had come true. And his support worker, Chris, remained a steadfast friend: “The first person to come and watch me [play] was my Action for Children support worker. It was absolutely fantastic! I’ve never had anyone at the side of the pitch supporting me before. When I saw Chris at the side of the pitch, I thought “wow” someone’s actually come to support me.” With the support of Action for Children, Jack is completing his coaching qualification so that he can continue a career he loves.
When reflecting on how far he’s come, Jack said: “If I look back four or five years ago, I’d have been over the moon with what I’ve done. I never thought I could. But now I know what I can achieve and I’m not stopping there.” Through foster care, Jack found a home and the space to be himself. Somewhere he feels cared for. How you can help a young person like Jack Children don’t choose their childhoods, but we can choose to help. That's why we've partnered with Barnardo’s, The Children’s Society, the National Children’s Bureau, and NSPCC to create the Children at the Table campaign. Together, we're asking the government to put babies, children, and young people at the centre of decision making. To bring children to the table. Source: www.actionforchildren.org.uk/ Locality: Lancashire Salary: £35,713.60 - £47,793.20 Contract type: Permanent Hours: 37 Closing Date: 10 June 2024 Interview Date: TBC Are you committed to making a difference to the lives of young people? Do you have the skills to lead our Supported Housing Service and amazing team? Bay6, our Supported Housing Project for 16 – 24 year olds based in Leyland, has an exciting opportunity for a passionate individual to join us as the Team manager, on a full time permanent basis.
Our young people say..... "Bay6 is special in more than one way" "It's a step to a brighter future" "Staff taught me to believe in myself" "It's like a second family to me" About the Service Barnardo's are proud to provide supported accommodation to young people aged 16-24 across a number of sites in Lancashire. The service aims to provide young people with the skills, knowledge and confidence needed for independent living. The young people who live in our accommodation are from a range of backgrounds and are often either in care, in the process of Leaving Care or have experienced homelessness. Our services are staffed 24 hours a day by a dedicated team. Young people can live within our accommodation for up to 2 years so that they can move on successfully to their own accommodation in a planned and coordinated way. Location The role is based in Barnardo's Lancashire locality, initially in Leyland at the Bay6 Project. Here we provide accommodation and support for 17 young people on a 24/7 basis, across 3 buildings. Working Pattern Generally Monday to Friday 9am – 5pm however our service is open 7 days a week, 365 days per year, so flexibility to support the team outside of these hours if the need arises is required. Participation of an On Call rota is also required. Further details and application documents here To mark the end of Foster Care Fortnight 2024, we spoke to one of our foster carers to reflect on this year's theme of ‘fostering moments’. Foster Care Fortnight is an annual campaign to bring awareness to fostering and show how foster care can transform lives. Donna Park, who previously worked in HR, and her husband Jim, who worked in manufacturing, began their fostering journey in 2021. The Fife-based couple settled Kirsty* into their home and family, and can still recall the moment they first arrived. Donna and Jim told us they remember this #FosteringMoment as if it happened yesterday. "We wanted to offer a young person a helping hand" With five children between them and their youngest son still at home in full-time education, opening their home to Kirsty meant the dynamic certainly changed. However, Donna said that having a foster child helped to bring together all the aspects of family life. When talking about their decision to foster, Donna said: "We thought opening the door to another young person would be a really good experience for our son." "At first, it's strange, but it soon becomes your everyday life" Donna spoke about the first few days of being a foster carer: "Nobody is entirely relaxed in themselves around the dinner table on day one. As time goes on and you get to know each other, you feel the relationship develops into more of what you’d expect from family life – the cheek and the laughs." Looking back, the couple said they weren’t overly nervous about opening up their family home. As expected, Donna says there was a different dynamic in the house to get used to, but she felt everyone started to relax as they got to know each other. They soon started to feel comfortable around each other, and Action for Children’s matching process helped create a positive match which suited the needs of both the young person and their existing family. Two years on, she says "it feels like Kirsty has always been a part of family life." Offering some myth-busting advice to others: Donna said there was plenty of support and thoughtful training throughout the process to becoming a foster carer. She explained: "Each day you just have to take it in your stride, the rest will follow." The Action for Children training really helps. One of the main things it helped me with was how to better understand different behaviours.
Through the couple’s compassion and dedication to being foster carers, as Donna says, "Kirsty is thriving", and Action for Children are proud to have been able to support this journey. Source: www.actionforchildren.org.uk/ |
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