2 posts available: full time 37 hours and part time 18.5 hours, per week.

 - Full time role: covering South Wales
 - Part time role: covering North Wales  

Do you want to make a real difference in children and young people's lives? If so, then we would like you to join our dedicated team of social workers and help empower children to thrive. We believe in quality over quantity, ensuring manageable caseloads so you can truly focus on the people you support. Regular supervision, peer support, and emotional wellbeing resources are all part of how we care for our team. We have an exciting opportunity for someone to join our small friendly team, who are well linked in with the wider Barnardo's organisation across the UK.

Fostering Service, covering Wales. We offer flexible working options, and a strong support network, and ongoing professional development to ensure you feel valued and supported in your career. 

The suitably applicant will be enthusiastic, creative and passionate about supporting children and young people who are cared for by their foster families. You will be able to work therapeutically with people who have experienced trauma and loss in their lives. You will work in a way that acknowledges and validates their experiences and work with hope that their future may be different. You will also have opportunities to design and deliver training to a team of committed foster parents and peers. You will have strong assessment skills in order to complete Form F's and annual reviews.

Ready to take the next step in your social work career? If the answer yes, then we very much look forward to you joining the team.

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Barnardo's Scotland Fostering North have a fantastic opportunity for a Supervising Social worker to join our busy team on a Full Time permanent basis.

Location: The successful candidate will be home based, however travel will be required across the North East of Scotland. Please also note that some meetings and training occur Scotland Wide. The Service has an office base in Aberdeen and you will be required to attend some meetings from this office base.  It is strongly recommended that applicants for this post be in a commutable distance to Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire and Moray.

As a Supervising Social Worker, you will work within a team of supervising social workers, children's workers, therapists, managers, and admin staff responsible for the recruitment and support of foster carers who provide care to looked after children and young people who are referred to the service from the Local Authority.

Some of the key responsibilities are:

• Work alongside others in providing supervision, support and advice to carers being able to demonstrate initiative whilst also being part of a team
• Ensure that Children & Young Peoples welfare remains paramount and central in all aspects of the service.
• Ensure the voice of children/young people and carers are represented in the service through engaging in and where appropriate lead in the delivery of participation and consultation activities.
• Deliver relevant training to Barnardo's cohort of foster carers and adopters to the relevant standards on both a group and individual basis and provide feedback to enable training materials to be updated to remain relevant and effective.
• Be flexible to respond to the needs of young people, carers and colleagues.

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Would you like to join the Barnardo's Families Team offering bespoke support to families in Rhondda Cynon Taf, South Wales?

This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated individual to join Barnardo's as a Team Manager within the Resilient Families Service, working across RCT, to support children, young people and their families. Our team is split into two areas covering the East and West of RCT. There is a Team Manager post in each area, and this vacancy is for the Team Manager of the East Team, covering the Cynon Valley and East half of Taff Ely.

What is the Resilient Families Service?
The Resilient Families Team is part of the Resilient Families Service providing an early intervention and prevention service for families with children/young people aged 0-18yrs across Rhondda Cynon Taff. The service increases the resilience levels of the children, young people and their families through working alongside other partner agencies to ensure intervention plans are effectively delivered, delivering direct support and advocating for the children, young people and their families.

What will the job involve?
As a Team Manager you will be a registered Social Worker and will line manage the team of Intervention Workers who are responsible for providing advice, guidance and support to families in accordance with the aims and objectives of the service. You will be responsible for:
•    Direct line management of a team of Intervention Workers supporting well-being, development, case work, performance and behaviour.
•    Case allocation, monitoring, quality assurance and audit
•    Responding to all safeguarding concerns received via C1/PPN referrals, disclosures or observations and escalating to Children's Services appropriately.
•    Working in partnership with the Resilient Families Service Management Team, Children's Services, Education, Health and Community Agencies.

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​Barnardo's Scotland Fostering North have a fantastic opportunity for a Supervising Social worker to join our busy team on a Full Time permanent basis.

Location: The successful candidate will be home based, however travel will be required across the North East of Scotland. Please also note that some meetings and training occur Scotland Wide. The Service has an office base in Aberdeen and you will be required to attend some meetings from this office base.  It is strongly recommended that applicants for this post be in a commutable distance to Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire and Moray.

As a Supervising Social Worker, you will work within a team of supervising social workers, children's workers, therapists, managers, and admin staff responsible for the recruitment and support of foster carers who provide care to looked after children and young people who are referred to the service from the Local Authority.

Some of the key responsibilities are:

• Work alongside others in providing supervision, support and advice to carers being able to demonstrate initiative whilst also being part of a team
• Ensure that Children & Young Peoples welfare remains paramount and central in all aspects of the service.
• Ensure the voice of children/young people and carers are represented in the service through engaging in and where appropriate lead in the delivery of participation and consultation activities.
• Deliver relevant training to Barnardo's cohort of foster carers and adopters to the relevant standards on both a group and individual basis and provide feedback to enable training materials to be updated to remain relevant and effective.
• Be flexible to respond to the needs of young people, carers and colleagues.

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Barnardo’s is celebrating a historic milestone - the largest single donation in the charity’s history. The £18 million gift from the Katherine Martin Charitable Trust will fully fund the rest of the Barnardo’s Gap Homes programme, creating 50 homes across the UK, as well as an ongoing fund to support vital services in the North of England.  

This transformational gift builds on Katherine Martin’s extraordinary life and legacy. Katherine defied societal norms as a trailblazer in the 1920s. She was a successful businesswoman, a pioneering racing driver, and a key figure in shaping the iconic Aston Martin brand. Beyond her achievements in the automotive industry, she was a dedicated philanthropist with a passion for improving the lives of children and young people.  

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Location: Bangor, County Down

Salary: £34,696 - £42,541
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Hours: 37 FT / 29.6 PT

Closing Date: 17 February 2025

​An exciting opportunity has arisen for two qualified social workers to become part of a well-established, dynamic team in one of Barnardo's family centres based in Bangor, County Down.  Simpson Family Centre provides a range of assessments and education to parents and carers in partnership with the South-Eastern Trust.  Using a strengths'-based approach, we always work with hope that parents and carers can be supported to make positive changes in order to care for their children.

Whilst the work with families is centre and community based, we support a hybrid model of working to include working from home as and when this is agreed.

Please ensure that you outline on your application how you meet the criteria detailed in the attached Additional Information Sheet.

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 This role leads the relationship fundraising function at Barnardo's which includes all our philanthropy, trusts, corporate partnerships and special events supported by a talented team of 30 people. It is an exciting time to join Barnardo's as we have just launched a new strategy and rebrand the charity to more clearly articulate our purpose and how we are driving change for children. With these conditions for success in place there is scope to significantly increase the engagement and support from philanthropists, trusts, foundations and companies.

We are looking for someone who wants to role model personal fundraising success and is an experienced leader of people. Someone who understand the complexity of working in big organisations and who can support their teams to build the relationships they need both internally and externally to drive success. Someone who works in a way that aligns with our behaviours framework and is excited about the opportunity to work in an organisation looking to work in an collaborative and integrated way.

The role leads the overall programme, with the Head of Relationship Fundraising Operations providing oversight across key teams in the function, together they are focused on driving substantial income growth and managing both reputational and financial risk associated with the full programme.

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Foster carers representing the country’s leading children’s charity met with the Scottish Government’s Minister for Children, Young People and The Promise, Natalie Don-Innes MSP, to outline a pioneering new “extended family” model approach to foster care.

To tackle the ongoing crisis in fostering, Barnardo’s Scotland first unveiled the ‘Mockingbird model’ in 2021 in collaboration with The Fostering Network which is inspired by the support and relationships of an extended family. Today, the Minister met with several foster carers who undertake care for children using this exciting model.

Speaking about the Mockingbird model, Natalie Don-Innes MSP said: “All children should have the support, love and stability they need throughout their childhood, to enable them to have the opportunity to thrive. Foster carers have a vital role in this, by providing secure, stable and nurturing homes for children in their care. Foster care is key to delivering The Promise by 2030 and to supporting our collective efforts to tackle Child Poverty and I would like to thank foster carers for all that they do.

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More than a hundred years of families opening up their homes and hearts to children across the UK are being celebrated this week, as Barnardo’s opens its archives to reveal the history of fostering in the UK amidst national crisis. 

The charity, which has run fostering services since the Victorian era, hopes sharing these historic images will show the incredible impact that fostering can have – and encourage more people to consider fostering at a time when the system is in crisis. 

Brenda Farrell, UK Director of Fostering and Adoption for Barnardo’s, said: “Barnardo’s archives hold the history of fostering in the UK. We’re sharing these powerful images to demonstrate how people have been bringing children into their families for over 150 years. 

“While it’s wonderful to see these snapshots of history, we’re sharing them against the backdrop of a very real crisis in our society today. Having supported children for almost 150 years, we urgently need more people to come forward and consider becoming foster carers to play their part in continuing this legacy. 

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An exciting opportunity has become available for a Fostering Practice Manager to work within Barnardo's Cymru Fostering Service. The Fostering Practice Manager post will be responsible for a Pan-Wales Service, with hybrid working you will have the flexibility to organise work priorities with work/life balance as we pride ourselves on providing all workers with a friendly, safe, and supportive environment to work in. It is important to highlight that although this is a Pan-Wales service there will be no expectation on the candidate to travel on a weekly basis.

The Fostering Practice Manager will work collaboratively with other professionals and foster parents across Wales to ensure we are meeting the sufficiency needs of local authorities, whilst providing a high-quality service to all our foster parents.  

To be successful in the role you will require strong leadership skills and relevant experience of working with foster parents, children and young people. You will oversee the day to day operations of the service from supporting a team of supervising social workers to ensuring effective service delivery from the point of initial contact through to assessment and placements of children/young people. You will be able to demonstrate that you can think creatively in delivering high quality support to foster parents and have a significant level of knowledge and experience within the fostering sector.  

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