We are looking to recruit a Fostering Support Worker working closely with the supervising social workers, local authorities and other professionals to support foster placements.  

The role will involve:

• Planning and implementing appropriate activities to meet the individual needs of looked after children
• Running support groups, both for looked after children and birth children
• Providing support sessions during the day, evenings or weekends
• Transporting young people to activities and appointments and supervising family contact sessions

Applicants should have

• Experience of working with children and young people in a paid or voluntary capacity
• Experience of administrative work including data entry and report writing
• Ability to work with challenging behaviour and resolve conflict
• Ability to maintain personal and professional boundaries
• Good communication and administrative skills and the ability to build and sustain sound professional relationships

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Location: Barnardo's Cymru Adoption & Fostering Service

Salary: £35,713 - £47,793 plus £312 per annum office at Home Allowance

Contract type: Permanent, Full Time

Closing Date: 18 December 2024

We have an exciting opportunity for someone to join our Fostering Service, based in Caerphilly, covering the whole of Wales.

You will be enthusiastic, creative and passionate about supporting children and young people who are looked after, and their fostering 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.

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​What do a tote bag, a mug, and a yule log all have in common? They’re just some of the ways that John Lewis Partnership is supporting Action for Children this Christmas.

It isn’t quite Christmas without the magical unveiling of the John Lewis Christmas ad. With the launch of their 2024 Christmas advert today, we’re looking at some of the ways that John Lewis is supporting us this Christmas, and fun ways for you to get involved.

Did you know the John Lewis Christmas advert supported Action for Children last year? Discover how

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Social Worker Simpson Family Centre 

Do you enjoy a challenge?  Did you come into social work to make a difference to the lives of families, children and young people?  If so, read on...

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.​

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Location: North Shields

​​Salary: £16,247.11 to £18,850.43 per annum (£27,078.51 to £31,417.39 per annum fte) starting salary is dependent upon skills and experience

Closing date: 9am on 2nd December

Part time: 22.5 hours per week covering Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

As a Placements Officer you will play a vital role in supporting us to make those changes happen.  You will:

• Build relationships with Local Authorities and be the first point of contact for referrals
• Get to know our foster carers and manage the matching process between our foster carers & the children referred
• Be key to supporting our children and families by coordinating short break care arrangements
• Support changes to arrangements such as placement moves and ends
• Update Carer Profiles and market the agency’s services to the local authorities

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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 
• Undertaking fair and detailed assessments ls.
• Ensuring accurate Reporting and Recording 
• Undertaking visits and providing quality supervision
• Being a Trauma Informed professional 
• Advocating for children in care and ensuring they have a voice
• Multi Agency working 
• Proving Duty and On-call support

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No one should face life alone. Join our Christmas Campaign and Be There for young people from care. 

This year, our Christmas campaign is inviting you to remember a time when someone was there for you. Perhaps they came to watch your school play, helped you study for exams, or supported you as you settled into your first home. Now imagine facing all those things alone. For many young people growing up in care, this is a reality.

At Break, we believe no young person should go through life without support. This Christmas, you have the chance to be there for a young person who, through no fault of their own, has faced a difficult start in life. With your help, we can ensure they have someone by their side—not just for one day, but throughout the year.

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We have a great opportunity for a social worker to join our dedicated adoption team. We are looking for a passionate individual who is dedicated to supporting and improving the outcomes of the children and families we work with. We have an experienced team who are consistently striving to learn and grow as a service and are looking for someone who is open to learning and developing their skills and knowledge as a social worker.

The successful candidate will join our Adoption team as a Social Worker, who is registered with Care Inspectorate Wales to recruit, train and assess Prospective and Approved Adoptive Parents. The post holder will also provide pre and post placement support to families. This includes further training for adoptive parents to meet the assessed needs of children.

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Up to 20 days per year (+ training days)

TACT, the UK’s largest fostering charity and has been providing loving families for vulnerable children and young people across the country for over 25 years. Our reputation and growth rests upon our strength in providing successful placements. As a charity, we do not have shareholders who receive profits – we invest all of our surplus income into service, staff, carers, and children’s development.

As a Panel Vice Chair with TACT, you will be a part of our amazing team of professionals working with our organisational values at the heart of their everyday practice. You can review our values here.

The West Midlands team are seeking a Fostering Panel Vice Chair to support the Chair in conducting monthly virtual panel meetings held on third Wednesday of the month via Microsoft Teams.

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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.  

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