Are you a dynamic, passionate leader ready to build something truly meaningful from the ground up? Do you bring oodles of enthusiasm, energy and vision to everything you do? If so, we’d love to meet you!

About Us
We are a young Community Interest Company, created by an experienced Foster Parent with a big heart and an even bigger mission: to deliver exceptional, child-centred support services that genuinely change lives. This is a rare opportunity to join in the very early stages of our journey and play a pivotal role in shaping our culture, our service, and our impact.

The Role
As our Registered Manager, you will be the driving force behind our operational success. You’ll lead with warmth, expertise, creativity, and compliance—ensuring our service not only meets regulatory standards but exceeds expectations for the children, young people, and families we support.

Key Responsibilities

• Statutory Compliance: Act as the Registered Manager, ensuring adherence to Fostering Regulations (e.g., England 2011) and National Minimum Standards, managing Ofsted inspections and reporting (like Regulation 35).
• Strategic Leadership: Drive the agency's vision, achieve business targets, and develop innovative strategies for growth and service improvement.
• Team & Service Management: Lead, manage, and motivate a multidisciplinary team, ensuring effective supervision and development.
• Fostering Oversight: Oversee recruitment, assessment, training, and ongoing support/supervision of foster parents.
• Safeguarding & Child Welfare: Lead on all safeguarding matters, ensuring the welfare of children is paramount, and monitoring care plans and outcomes.
• Stakeholder Relations: Build strong partnerships with Local Authorities, schools, and other agencies, attending meetings and negotiating contracts.
• Quality Assurance: Implement continuous improvement, monitor service quality, conduct audits, and manage complaints/incidents. 

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Join our passionate and friendly fostering charity as an experienced social worker!  We are recruiting for an enthusiastic, knowledgeable Supervising Social Worker (SSW) to join our charity team, working primarily from home, but with regular opportunities to meet with colleagues both regionally and agency wide.

There will be involvement in recruiting, assessing, supervising and supporting Foster Carers to support us in maintaining our quality fostering service for looked after children. The role involves recruitment of Foster Carers, travel to the homes of our Foster Carers as required (which will at times involve travelling longer distances), leading occasional projects, running and delivering training and support groups, and taking part in an ‘out of hours’ duty system (approximately 6 times a year).

To allow our social workers to provide a thorough, personal and meaningful service to our fostering families, workload is always allocated to ensure it is manageable. We are an ethically driven charity, putting the needs of our children and carers first and are looking to appoint a Supervising Social Worker who is as passionate about this as we are.

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We are looking for a creative and strategic Head of Media on a permanent contract to lead, plan and deliver media relation strategies and activities to highlight the work of Action for Children and issues related to vulnerable children, young people and families.

How you'll help to create brighter futures

• Lead development and delivery of Action for Children’s media relations.
• Lead, manage and motivate the Media Relations Team and to matrix manage devolved press officers in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
• Plan, manage and deliver a range of proactive and reactive news, and corporate media activities nationally and regionally.
• Support the development and implementation of a cultivation plan to build relationships with journalists, editors, and influencers.
• Lead and co-ordinate innovative and creative approaches to highlight the impact of the work of Action for Children.
• Oversee development and implementation of media events.
• Work collaboratively with Influencing and Public Affairs to develop media strategies.

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Barnardo's is seeking a committed and skilled Supervising Social Worker to join our Midlands Fostering Families service. This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a supportive and passionate team dedicated to providing high‑quality support to foster carers and achieving the best outcomes for children.

As a Supervising Social Worker, you will support, supervise, and develop a caseload of foster carers, ensuring safe, child‑centred, and high‑quality fostering practice.

Your caseload will be predominantly based in the East Midlands, and you will work closely with foster families, children, colleagues, and partner agencies.

This is a hybrid role and you will spend regular time in the Halesowen office to attend team meetings, support service delivery, and engage in collaborative practice.

Your role will include the following: 

• Provide supervision, support, and guidance to foster carers in line with regulatory and Barnardo's standards.
• Undertake visits, assessments, and reviews to ensure safe, effective, and child‑led foster homes.
• Work directly with children and young people to understand their lived experiences and support positive outcomes.
• Contribute to the recruitment, training, and development of foster carers.
• Work in partnership with local authorities, health, education, and other agencies.
• Ensure robust safeguarding practice and respond effectively to any concerns.
• Maintain accurate and timely records and contribute to audits, quality assurance, and service planning.

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Applicants must live within the following areas, Bexley, Bromley, Croydon, Greenwich, Kingston, Lambeth, Lewisham, Merton, Richmond, Southwark, Sutton, and Wandsworth.

We are recruiting sessional assessing social workers to undertake Form F assessments .  Our assessments are undertaken face to face. Applicants must live within the following areas, Bexley, Bromley, Croydon, Greenwich, Kingston, Lambeth, Lewisham, Merton, Richmond, Southwark, Sutton, and Wandsworth. 

Key Duties for Form F Assessors include:

• To undertake and complete Form F assessments in the timescale set out in our policy and guidance.
• To visit personal referees as identified on application form for prospective foster carers.
• To ensure that all checks and references are undertaken and completed.
• To provide to the supervisor, regular written updates of the draft assessment.
• To liaise with our administrative team concerning the progress of administrative checks and completion of the Form F.
• To be available for supervision, consultation or liaison as required.
• To be available to present completed Form Fs to the virtual fostering panel and provide support to the applicants through this process.
• To be aware of our child protection procedures and immediately report any child protection matter or concerns to a TACT manager and any relevant placing authority and the area authority.
• To carry out the duties in line with our Foster Carer and Supervising Social Worker Standards and Practice Guidance.

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TACT’s permanency practice has been recognised in a new set of Good Practice in Permanence Guides commissioned by the Scottish Government.

The guides, developed by the Association of Fostering, Kinship and Adoption (AFKA) Scotland, are designed to strengthen permanency practice across the country. They will be shared with social work agencies, local authorities and university courses, supporting professionals and students to better understand what high‑quality permanency work looks like.

TACT features several times in the ‘Supporting Families in Permanence Guide’, specifically for our approach to preparing foster carers for permanence and for the work of our Education Service.

For TACT Scotland’s Specialist Permanence Social Worker, Tania Stuart, who contributed to the guides, seeing this recognition in print was a proud moment: “It’s fantastic that TACT has been highlighted as a good practice agency within permanence fostering. To be included several times in a Government‑commissioned guide really shows how much our commitment to high‑quality permanency support is valued.”

Tania attended the guide launch at the Scottish Government in Edinburgh, and was one of 50 professionals across practice, research and government who helped shape the guides.

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Through membership of the Children’s Services Leadership Team (CSLT) the successful candidate will provide strategic leadership to Children’s Services department, with a lead to drive the application of a commercial ethos. 

You will also lead and drive the strategic growth and development of Spring services, through the application of new services and products to deliver on income targets to enable Action for Children to achieve its financial and service objectives to benefit children, young people and families.

How you'll help to create brighter futures  

• As a member of the Children’s Services Leadership Team, you will strategically manage Children’s Services, driving improved performance, balanced with ensuring the delivery of safe and efficient services. 
• Through membership of the Directors Group or other senior organisational management forums, to contribute and lead with the delivery of Action for Children’s strategic objectives. 
• Lead colleagues across all functions to support service development, build competitive advantage and differentiate Action for Children from competitors.
• Ensure effective governance arrangements are in place to deliver services.
• Directly manage staff to deliver services within Spring or allocated services across the four nations (UK).
• Overall management of Spring and leadership of the management team to deliver stated objectives.
• Strategically drive the responsibility for the long term development of the Spring brand and services that is consistent with Children’s Services strategy, including sourcing growth opportunities.

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We are seeking an experienced and motivated Social Worker to join our established assessment team within the Newry and Armagh Family Centres.

This is a part‑time role, working 22.2 hours per week (3 days).

Our service has been operating for over 30 years and is recognised for its high‑quality support to children, young people, and families experiencing a range of challenges. We work alongside families to promote safety, stability, and positive change.

About the Role
As a Social Worker within the Family Centre, you will play a key role in delivering targeted support and undertaking direct work with children and families. This will include completing high‑quality assessments of parenting capacity and protective parenting ability, contributing to court‑directed work where required, and providing therapeutic interventions such as mediation that promote positive outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Undertake assessments to identify strengths, risks, and support needs
• Provide evidence‑based therapeutic and practical support recommendations to children, young people, and their families
• Contribute to multi‑agency planning and partnership working
• Prepare high‑quality written reports, including those for court proceedings
• Maintain accurate and timely case records in line with organisational standards.

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This is an exciting opportunity to join TACT in the new role of Fostering Recruitment Officer as they grow their presence in the North West. 

The Fostering Recruitment Officer will drive recruitment of Foster Carers across the area, innovating engagement and participation alongside the Fostering Recruitment Manager, in collaboration with the whole team.

The Fostering Recruitment Officer will be required to work on Monday as one of the 3 working days. The other 2 working days can be discussed with the hiring managers during the recruitment process.

Overall Duties of the Fostering Recruitment Officer will include:

• Working collaboratively across relevant teams to progress enquiry management
• Support community recruitment activity to create a consistent pipeline of carer applicants
• Facilitating a smooth application and assessment process for potential carers
• Undertaking essential administrative tasks relating to record keeping, creation of data for analysis, evidence for measuring objectives
• Creatively contribute to innovation and improvement of strategies and local activities
• Maintaining an understanding of regulations and requirements for provision of foster care services

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We are looking for a Social Worker to support the growth and development of our Registered Family Centres in Southampton. The Family Centres are made up of a number of self-contained flats or pods 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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