We are looking for a professional, assertive individual with fast, accurate typing skills, to conduct both supervised and supported family contact sessions. Fair Ways Contact Service offers a safe and supervised environment allowing families to work towards re-establishing relationships following a breakdown or separation.

In this role as a Family Contact Supervisor you will be involved in exciting and rewarding things like:

• Keeping vulnerable children and young people Safe –Contributing to the monitoring of good practice within the Contact Scheme, ensuring safe working practices within safeguarding procedures are followed.
• Working in an informed way using relevant supporting information –Work within the NACCC standards for the Contact Scheme and adhere to Fair Ways policies and procedures.
• Supporting positive engagement for our families-The role involves supervising/ supporting contact sessions to enable children to retain bonds with significant figures in their lives in a controlled environment.
• Ensuring an open platform for discussion– involving parents and children (where appropriate) in decisions about their contact, in order to maximise their choices, giving due consideration to their wishes and feelings.
• Playing your PART within an amazing team – Being a reliable and conscientious team member. Contact sessions are often court ordered and must be adhered to with stability and consistency being key factors to making them work.
• Evidencing your fantastic attention to detail and communication skills– The individual must be able to accurately record sessions and at the same time monitor the risks in the sessions and have the confidence to recognise and challenge unsafe parenting.

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We are looking for a Social Worker to support the growth and development of our Registered Family Centre in Southampton. The Family Centre is made up of 5 self-contained flats each with their own bathroom and kitchen facilities and a separate bungalow which can accommodate an additional 2 families. Families will be referred to the Family Centre if there have been concerns identified around the safety of the children within their existing family unit. Once with us, the families will be continuously encouraged, assessed and guided through a 12 week stay where they are monitored 24/7 to encourage sustainable positive parenting changes. 

The successful candidate will be working 37.5 hour per week Monday to Friday.

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Location: Central Support (Portsmouth)

Salary: The role is not remunerated but reasonable travel and other expenses will be paid.
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Contract Type: Part time

Specific Hours: Various - Minimum of 4 Board Meetings per year,
​and occasional site visits

​We are currently looking for a trustee to join us at Fair Ways, ideally with experience within the charitable, statutory or commercial sectors with a financial specialism. You will share our passion to improve the lives of children and young persons. As a Trustee you will be directly involved in influencing the strategic direction of the organisation; contributing to its dynamic and best practice governance and helping Fair Ways to make its vision a reality. 

As a Trustee of Fair Ways Community Benefit Society, you will individually and collectively be responsible for: 

• Actively contributing to the Board of Trustees and working with the Executive to set and oversee the delivery of  the Strategy that ensures we meet our charitable objectives
• Ensuring the organisation is maintaining effective systems of governance, policies and procedures for the operations of the charity and ensuring that the charity remains solvent, professionally run, and delivers its charitable outcomes both now and for the future.
• Ensuring compliance with charity law and all requirements of the overseeing body; carried out with the assistance of the Company Secretary
• Acting with integrity and avoiding any personal conflicts of interest or misuse of charity funds or assets and ensuring the charity avoids undertaking activities that might place the charity's funds, assets or reputation at undue risk.  
• Seeking professional advice on all matters where there may be material risk to the charity and where the trustees believe that guidance must be sought.
• Ensuring that Trustees interact with the Executive, outside agencies/professionals in a highly efficient, professional and supportive manner at all times

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We are looking for a Social Worker to support the growth and development of our Registered Family Centre in Southampton. The Family Centre is made up of 5 self-contained flats each with their own bathroom and kitchen facilities and a separate bungalow which can accommodate an additional 2 families. Families will be referred to the Family Centre if there have been concerns identified around the safety of the children within their existing family unit. Once with us, the families will be continuously encouraged, assessed and guided through a 12 week stay where they are monitored 24/7 to encourage sustainable positive parenting changes. 

As a Social Worker with Fair Ways you will deliver the highest standards of care and support to our children, families and vulnerable adults through:

• Assessing and Observing - To take a lead role in parenting assessments through formal and informal observations of the residents with their child ensuring a high-quality service is delivered and maintained.
• Keeping Children, families and vulnerable adults Safe - Managing any presenting safeguarding issues in accordance with Fair Ways Policies and Procedures to keep children, families and vulnerable adults safe from harm for the duration of their assessment.
• Supervision and training - To line manage a small number of direct reports offering reflective supervisions, guidance and undertaking monitoring of any required training and development in line with our professional development and progression plans.
• Being a clear and confident communicator - To attend and contribute to multi-agency meetings, court hearings and other forums to represent the Residential Family Centre and support the Assessors.
• Building strong professional relationships - To proactively maintain safe supervision levels and respectful relationships with parents and children through effective support, guidance and care ensuring the maintenance of safe practice.
• Accurate and detailed report writing - To maintain full oversight of the assessment process for families for the full 12 weeks, writing the parenting assessment reports for courts. Maintaining effective, regular communication with outside agencies regarding parenting capacity.
• Being a Trauma Informed professional - To oversee and model trauma informed responses through the individualised use of therapeutic and (in some services) physical intervention to ensure families are supported appropriately during times of crisis and to demonstrate an understanding of the parents’ early life experiences.
• Supporting and developing new initiatives - To support the management team to develop the community-based assessment and outreach packages for family transitions into the community.
• Committing to your personal and professional development - To manage personal and continuous professional development through self-assessment, supervision and training.

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Fair Ways are looking to recruit a supervising social worker to join our dedicated and supportive fostering team.

​Fair Ways fostering team is a relatively small team with Social Workers overseeing smaller caseloads. This allows for relationship-based work, with Social Workers being available and able to respond quickly when needed. As a result, we are confident that our service maintains a family centred approach to ensure that our foster families remain at the heart of our work.

As a Supervising Social Worker you will be responsible for:

• Providing dedicated supervision and support - To supervise and support foster families, utilising and developing the foster carers’ skills and experiences, identifying and supporting areas for professional development both individually and as a group.
• Undertaking fair and detailed assessments - To carry out fostering and parenting assessments as and when required, adhering to the respective role specifications for each. To present completed fostering assessments to Fair Ways Independent Fostering Panels.
• Ensuring accurate Reporting and Recording - To maintain and organise case records, write reports as directed by line manager and maintain effective, regular communication with outside agencies regarding own caseload, ensuring all relevant parties are kept up to date of important developments.
• Undertaking visits and providing quality supervision - To carry out monitoring visits with young people and supervisions of all carers on caseload within required timeframes in order to ensure that you are aware of their individual needs and are able to recognise any signs or indications of any potential harm the child may be experiencing.
• Being a Trauma Informed professional - Using our industry recognised RiiSE training to deliver trauma informed responses through the individualised use of therapeutic interventions and demonstrate an understanding of the young peoples’ early life experiences and that such experiences may result in, or contribute to, severe challenging behaviour.
• Advocating for children in care and ensuring they have a voice - To use a range of different methods when working directly with young people to ascertain their wishes and feelings in respect of all plans relating to them, encouraging them to be involved in the planning process as appropriate.
• Multi Agency working - To attend and contribute to reviews and care planning meetings, supporting the foster carers and placement of young people placed in the company, and where necessary acting as advocate for young people and their families
• Proving Duty and On-call support - To carry out the role of Duty Social Worker at least one day per week, and have the ability and willingness to be part of emergency out of hours on-call service and to work additional hours when deemed to be necessary by the needs and demands of the post, including weekends and evenings, to ensure the quality of service remains at its highest.

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At Fair Ways, we are constantly amazed by the creativity and passion of the young people in our care, and one inspiring story we want to share is that of Matty, a bright and dedicated young person who has recently created a website dedicated to charities.

Matty, who has a passion for children’s charities, felt there was no single platform where charities could be listed in one place, making it harder for people to discover and support them. Determined to make a difference, Matty took matters into his own hands and began creating a website called Fundraising for Everyone.

Matty didn’t just stop at creating the platform; he was eager to personalise the experience. When presenting his website to Fair Ways team members, he included a section for everyone to share their favourite charities. He asked each staff member to contribute their own, ensuring that the site reflected the diverse causes that resonate with the people around him.

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We are looking for a professional, assertive individual with fast, accurate typing skills, to conduct both supervised and supported family contact sessions. Fair Ways Contact Service offers a safe and supervised environment allowing families to work towards re-establishing relationships following a breakdown or separation.

In this role as a Family Contact Supervisor you will be involved in exciting and rewarding things like:

• Keeping vulnerable children and young people Safe –Contributing to the monitoring of good practice within the Contact Scheme, ensuring safe working practices within safeguarding procedures are followed.
• Working in an informed way using relevant supporting information –Work within the NACCC standards for the Contact Scheme and adhere to Fair Ways policies and procedures.
• Supporting positive engagement for our families-The role involves supervising/ supporting contact sessions to enable children to retain bonds with significant figures in their lives in a controlled environment.
• Ensuring an open platform for discussion– involving parents and children (where appropriate) in decisions about their contact, in order to maximise their choices, giving due consideration to their wishes and feelings.
• Playing your PART within an amazing team – Being a reliable and conscientious team member. Contact sessions are often court ordered and must be adhered to with stability and consistency being key factors to making them work.
• Evidencing your fantastic attention to detail and communication skills– The individual must be able to accurately record sessions and at the same time monitor the risks in the sessions and have the confidence to recognise and challenge unsafe parenting.

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This role is offered on a 16 hr per week basis (worked as an average over 4 weeks) These will be undertaken as part of a fixed 2 week rota with a variable shift pattern Monday to Sunday to include day time and evening shifts.

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In early December, children’s charity Fair Ways organised 182 children along with their families and carers to the cinema for a special private screening of Paddington in Peru, with Cineworld Cinemas where they joined the lovable bear on his adventure through the jungles of Peru.  

We want to extend a heartfelt thank you to the wonderful team at Cineworld Whiteley for their incredible support in making this event possible. Their warm hospitality, attention to detail, and the preparation of hundreds of boxes of popcorn and drinks ensured everyone felt welcome and cared for. This is the second year Cineworld Whiteley has hosted us, which is so appreciated, and already the Fair Ways Christmas film is seen as a special day in our Christmas event calendar. We hope it will develop into a much-loved Christmas tradition that our young people eagerly anticipate each year

In this heartwarming tale, Paddington discovers his tribe with the love and guidance of his adoptive family—a journey that reflects the power of belonging, no matter where you come from...

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Working as part of our Quality, Safety and Governance Team you play your part in providing operationally independent oversight of the quality and safety of Fair Ways services, to recognise best practice and identify opportunities to raise standards so that the organisation continually improves and bring about lasting change.

In this role you will be involved exciting and rewarding things like:

• Governance and Compliance: Support operational and executive boards in fulfilling their legal, statutory, and regulatory obligations by providing oversight and quality assurance of safeguarding and general service quality practices.
• Audits and Action Plans: Lead and contribute to audits and site visits, identifying risks, areas for improvement, and good practices. Develop, monitor, and manage action plans to ensure continuous improvement across services.
• Guidance and Support: Provide targeted support to services to ensure they meet regulatory and legal requirements, follow best practice, and work towards delivering the highest quality provision.
• Reporting: Provide regular reports to management and executive forums, offering oversight of service quality, compliance, and thematic reviews.
• Learning and Development: Promote a culture of learning within the Fair Ways by coordinating and monitoring after-action reviews, scenario planning, and the dissemination of best practices.

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Fair Ways Fostering Team are looking for a motivated, caring and passionate individual to support our amazing young people and their foster carers. The role provides a great opportunity for applicants to work as part of an outstanding team, supporting vulnerable young people with complex needs to achieve fantastic outcomes. You will develop positive relationships with our young people whilst supporting with fun and engaging activities, creating opportunities and experiences for them to thrive.
 
Working as a Fostering Support Worker you will be involved in exciting and engaging things like:

• Having fun and making memories! - Providing daytime and evening respite to Foster Carers by taking the child/young person into the community for 1:1 support sessions.
• Planning exciting and appropriate activities – Planning sessions engaging with the young person’s interests. These could be a wide range of things - football in the park, exploring nature, cinema visits, climbing sessions, library visits etc
• Documenting and recording findings – You will be asked to attend meetings to provide updates around your engagement with the children and young people evidencing positive, well boundaried relationships. 
• Keeping Young People Safe - Using your clear understanding of safeguarding (full training provided by our incredible inhouse training team), you will know when and how to intervene and work in a way that prioritises the needs of children.
• Providing respite for our fantastic foster carers – You will collect children from carers homes and in some cases from school and undertake fun and engaging activites. All children that have support have been risked assessed as safe to lone work.
• Feeling truly secure and supported in your role - All staff will be supported by an amazing team and provided an information sheet and risk assessment specific to the child/young person before any shift. Staff will always have a clear picture of the child/young person’s needs and how best to support them and keep them safe.
• Being a Trauma Informed professional - To provide trauma informed responses through the individualised use of therapeutic and, where appropriate, physical intervention to ensure our young people are supported appropriately during times of crisis.

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