Location: Multi-Site Salary: £10.65 - £13.16 per hour (range inc week day/evening and weekend rates) Contract Type: Part time Specific Hours: 20 Closing Date: 10 June 2023 Who are Fair Ways and what do we stand for?
Fair Ways is a great place to work. We are a team. We care about each other and are all committed to making a change to the lives of the young people and service users in our care. We will not apologise for calling our staff great, the best, or world-class. Our staff are at the core of our organisation and we celebrate them by shouting it from the rooftops! Where and when do we need you? Fair Ways Fostering Team are looking for motivated, caring and passionate individuals to support our amazing young people and their foster families. The role provides a great opportunity for applicants to work as part of an outstanding team, supporting vulnerable individuals with complex needs to achieve positive 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. We currently have a part-time opportunity available working 20 horus and shifts will be a mixture of week day, evenings and weekends. Candidates will need to be available for a mixed shift pattern (advance notice will be given) Working as a Fostering Support Worker you will be involved in exciting and engaging things like:
All candidates must have a full driving license and have access to the use of a car. Successful candidates will be required to provide an enhanced Disclosure (DBS). This disclosure cost will be met by Fair Ways. Due to the nature of the role all activity money and mileage will be covered Desirable…. but not Essential Whilst we value the knowledge and understanding that experience and qualifications can bring we also know that some of our best people have come to us from unrelated backgrounds. These people already held our core values at heart, and with the dedication of our amazing in house training and development team, we have supported the rest!
Let us look after you! Looking after our employees is important to us, and whilst our culture is central to our identity, we also offer a great set of benefits to ensure we are striving to provide the best support to our employees available in the sector.
Find your happy place – we can’t wait to meet you! Apply today and be a PART of something amazing - We encourage a diverse workforce and welcome applications from all communities. Full details and application documents here Location: Central Support (Portsmouth) Salary: £34,149 - £42,741 (inclusive of an on-call Rota) Contract Type: Full time Specific Hours: 37.5 Closing Date: 20 May 2023 Who are Fair Ways and what do we stand for?
At Fair Ways we believe in making a difference through passionate care, support and education. Together we aim to build an institution that makes a difference to society and leaves a legacy greater than ourselves and our contributions. Our values sit at the heart of everything we do; we measure our wealth by the difference we make, rather than the profit we make. Where and when do we need you? We are looking for a Supervising Social Worker to join our existing dedicated, passionate and professional team. Fair Ways Fostering is a division of Fair Ways, based in Lakeside North Harbour in Portsmouth. We are committed to employing experienced childcare practitioners who have a child-centered approach, are enthusiastic, self-motivated and are willing to undertake training to enhance and develop existing skills and knowledge. 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 centered approach to ensure that our foster families and young people remain at the heart of our work. As a Supervising Social worker on our fantastic fostering team, you will be involved in:
The successful applicant will be working 37.5 hours per week working 9-5. This is generally 9-5pm however will involve some evenings and covering the monthly on call service for 1 week once a month. This is a hybrid working post, with an expectation to work from the office once a week on the team day. All candidates must have a full driving license and have access to the use of a car. Successful candidates will be required to provide an enhanced Disclosure (DBS). This disclosure cost will be met by Fair Ways. You and your specialisms Our community is core to achieving our mission of making a difference through passionate care, and support. The ideal candidate will possess a good understanding of relevant legislative frameworks – Children Act 1989/2004, Care Standards Act 2000 and Fostering Services Regulations 2011. To support this, you will have the following: Essential:
Desirable personal skills:
Let us look after you! Looking after our employees is important to us, and whilst our culture is central to our identity, we also offer a great set of benefits to ensure we are striving to provide the best support to our employees available in the sector.
Next Step: Interested in the vacancy? Apply today! We encourage a diverse workforce and welcome applications from all communities. Full details and application documents here One of the more positive highlights of the recent 2023 Spring budget is that further tax breaks will be available for foster carers as of April 2023. The very good news is that more money will be taken home by foster carers up and down the country and begin to ease the pressures they are facing from the higher cost of living. This blog outlines the new allowances with a working example of how this will benefit foster carers. Below is an example for Sally a foster carer who looked after a 14-year-old all year and an 8-year-old for 10 weeks during the year. These new allowances significantly increase the amount of paythat foster carers can receive without falling into the tax net. This allows more funds to be retained to meet cost of living increases and meeting the expenses of looking after Foster children.
Fair Ways has been advocating for these increases for some time through the Fairer Fostering Network, a group of fellow charities and Not For Profit Fostering agencies. While they do not fully meet the needs of carers, they go a long way to ensuring that Fostering remains financially viable and will opefully address the decline in Fostering Carers across the UK. All foster carers with Fair Ways get a paid membership to the Fostering Network who provide free services to foster carers, one of these services is tax and financial advice. To find out more about fostering with Fair Ways please email fostering.info@fairways.co Source: www.fairways.co We are delighted to advise that Anne Segall has been appointed as Interim Chair of the Fair Ways Community Benefit Society (FWCBS) Board of Trustees. Anne joined Fair Ways Foundation as a trustee in March 2016 becoming chair of trustees in 2021. She also joined Fair Ways Community Benefit Society as a trustee in September 2021. During this period, she has contributed enormously to assisting the structuring and transition of Fair Ways charities. Anne’s background is in organisational development, change management and leadership development & training, having run her own management consultancy for 11 years and previously held roles at the BBC in personnel, line management and radio engineering.
To find out more about Anne and all the FWCBS trustees please visit our website Source: www.fairways.co/ Location: Central Support (Portsmouth) Salary: £8,000 Per Annum Contract Type: Part time Specific Hours: 7.5 hours per week Closing Date: 07 April 2023 Who are Fair Ways and what do we stand for?
Fair Ways is a great place to work. We are a team. We care about each other and are all committed to making a change to the lives of the young people and service users in our care. We will not apologise for calling our staff great, the best, or world-class. Our staff are at the core of our organisation and we celebrate them by shouting it from the rooftops! Where and when do we need you? Fair Ways CBS and Fair Ways Foundation are two separate, but linked charities who share the same objective of delivering the highest standard of care and education for the children and young people we support. We are seeking someone who can provide expert administrative support and advice to the Chairs of the two charities as well as the management of Fair Ways CBS to ensure we are complying with governance and regulatory duties. It is an exciting time to join Fair Ways after the recent separation of the two organisations and the conversion to charitable status for Fair Ways CBS. In this role you will be involved exciting and rewarding things like:
Full job description will be provided prior to interview. This role will work to an average of 7.5 hours per week to be worked flexibly around board requirements. This post will be a hybrid role working from home and at our central support office in Portsmouth and will be subject to an enhanced DBS check. You and your specialisms Efficient and dedicated support to our board of trustees is core to achieving our mission of making a difference through passionate care, support, and education. To support this, you will have the following:
In addition, the following would be beneficial although not essential:
Let us look after you! Looking after our employees is important to us, and whilst our culture is central to our identity, we also offer a great set of benefits to ensure we are striving to provide the best support to our employees available in the sector.
Find your happy place – we can’t wait to meet you! Apply today and be a PART of something amazing - We encourage a diverse workforce and welcome applications from all communities. Full details and application documents here Location: Central Support (Portsmouth) Contract Type: Part time Closing Date: 25 March 2023 Salary: Reasonable - expenses paid Specific Hours: Various - Minimum of 4 Board Meetings per year, and occasional site visits Who are Fair Ways and what do we stand for?
Fair Ways is a great place to work. We are a team. We care about each other and are all committed to making a change to the lives of the young people and service users in our care. We will not apologise for calling our staff great, the best, or world-class. Our staff are at the core of our organisation and we celebrate them by shouting it from the rooftops! Where and when do we need you? We are currently looking for a Charity Trustee to join us at Fair Ways, who shares a 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 governance and helping Fair Ways Foundation to make its vision a reality. As a Trustee of Fair Ways Foundation, you will individually and collectively be responsible for:
This role is offered a voluntary position, with an expectation to attend a Minimum of 4 Board Meetings per year, having undertaken the associated reading/preparation for each meeting and occasional site visits. Required Experience:
Find your happy place – we can’t wait to meet you! Apply today and be a PART of something amazing - We encourage a diverse workforce and welcome applications from all communities. Full details and application documents here Location: Central Support (Portsmouth) Salary: Reasonable - expenses paid Contract Type: Part time Specific Hours: Various - Minimum of 4 Board Meetings per year, and occasional site visits Closing Date: 25 March 2023 Who are Fair Ways and what do we stand for?
Fair Ways is a great place to work. We are a team. We care about each other and are all committed to making a change to the lives of the young people and service users in our care. We will not apologise for calling our staff great, the best, or world-class. Our staff are at the core of our organisation and we celebrate them by shouting it from the rooftops! Where and when do we need you? We are currently looking for a Charity Trustee to join us at Fair Ways, who shares a 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 governance and helping Fair Ways Foundation to make its vision a reality. As a Trustee of Fair Ways Foundation, you will individually and collectively be responsible for:
This role is offered a voluntary position, with an expectation to attend a Minimum of 4 Board Meetings per year, having undertaken the associated reading/preparation for each meeting and occasional site visits. Required Experience:
Find your happy place – we can’t wait to meet you! Apply today and be a PART of something amazing - We encourage a diverse workforce and welcome applications from all communities. Full details and application documents here All foster carers in the UK do an incredible job of looking after young people on a daily basis. Occasionally foster carers may wish to move to another agency. This can be for multiple reasons. However a key factor preventing carers moving agencies is the fear they would lose the children placed with them. This is a very real and understandable fear especially where these placements and well established and embedded into the family. We wrote this blog to assure all foster careers in the UK that transferring to another agency will not affect the children placed with you The Fostering Network, the UK’s leading fostering charity provides a clear guide for agencies confirming “The principles of the transfer protocol recognise that all foster carers have the right to freedom of movement between fostering services.” The stability of the placement for the young person should be the priority for all parties involved, if the young person is thriving in their current foster home, then remaining in this home with a foster family that they have built positive relationships with, will be in their best interest. You can read the transfer protocol here. This transfer process is simpler and faster than your initial assessment to foster. When transferring to Fair Ways we estimate the process will take around 3 months from the day you enquire to having child in placement with you Fair Ways became a charity in 2021 and our Fostering Agency is rated as Outstanding by Ofsted. In the past two years have had many amazing foster carers transfer to us. A common theme is foster carers moving away from agencies who have become large and corporate and where the focus appears to be on costs and not children. One recent transferee to Fair Ways commented; If you would like to transfer to an Outstanding Fostering charity, please get in contact today on fostering.info@fairways.co or call us on 02380 230 400
Source: www.fairways.co Location: Central Support (Portsmouth) Contract Type: Part time Closing Date: 28 February 2023 Salary: £34,789 - £42,457 (FTE) Specific Hours: 16 hrs Per Week Who are Fair Ways and what do we stand for?
Fair Ways is a great place to work. We are a team. We care about each other and are all committed to making a change to the lives of the young people and service users in our care. We will not apologise for calling our staff great, the best, or world-class. Our staff are at the core of our organisation and we celebrate them by shouting it from the rooftops! Where and when do we need you? Working as part of our Quality Assurance 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:
This role is offered on a 16 hr per week basis. One of the days worked must be a Friday however we can offer flexibility with the additional hours/days. This role will be a hybrid position, working from home, working from our central support office and visiting our range of services within the Solent area (and additional locations as required.) You and your specialisms Our internal community is core to achieving our mission of making a difference through passionate care, support, and education. To support this, you will have the following:
Let us look after you! Looking after our employees is important to us, and whilst our culture is central to our identity, we also offer a great set of benefits to ensure we are striving to provide the best support to our employees available in the sector:
Find your happy place – we can’t wait to meet you! Apply today and be a PART of something amazing - We encourage a diverse workforce and welcome applications from all communities. Full details and application documents here What training will I get when I become a foster carer? This is one of the first questions most people ask us when enquiring about fostering. This short blog will outline the training we offer our foster carers and we hope this helps with any doubts that you may have about your ability to foster. We wanted to start this piece by reminding anyone thinking of fostering that you do not need to know everything at the start of your fostering journey, we don’t look for perfect (we don’t even believe that exists). If you want to make a difference to a child’s life, and can provide a loving, safe home then we can teach you the rest. It’s also worth noting most people we speak to about fostering actually have many more existing and transferable skills and knowledge than they realise. At Fair Ways we believe training is important to help develop your career as a foster carer and we offer the most comprehensive range available, including courses that are not available from other IFA’s. So…what training do we offer our amazing foster carers? To begin with, we offer a Skills to Foster weekend which gives a fantastic insight into fostering. This course is run by our Fostering Recruitment Manager Paula Lewis who has over 15 years fostering experience and – we challenge you to ask her a question she hasn’t heard before. Once you join us as a foster carer, you will do the following courses as part of your induction: Training Fair Ways offers foster carers within their first year Now breathe. A year has passed and you can barely remember those initial concerns. By now you are feeling confident in your ability to be a fantastic foster carer and you’ve got 12 months of learning and experience under your belt. Of course there may still be days when you need support or advice, that’s completely normal, but you know your supervising social worker is just a phone call away and will be able to support you with any challenges you may face. Now you have settled into fostering we will invite you to two more specialist training courses; Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) and RiiSE – (Relationship Inspired Ideas for Supportive Environments). They are not compulsory but both have received fantastic reviews from our foster carers. Finally, as if the above wasn’t enough we also offer over 100 online professional development training courses. We hope this blog has showed you how much training and support is on offer to you as a foster carer with Fair Ways. If you have any more questions about training please do email us at fostering.info@fairways.co and we will be more than happy to answer any questions you have. Source: https://www.fairways.co |
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