![]() Location: Barnardo's Fostering and Adoption North East Salary: £35,713.60 - £47,793.20 Contract type: Fixed term End date: 1st Oct 2025 Hours: 37 Closing Date: 9 August 2024 Interview Date: TBC Barnardo's Fostering North England are looking to recruit a Practice Manager to join our excellent team. This position is a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious experienced Social Work Practitioner to be involved in innovative practice, improving the outcomes and life chances for Children and Young People.
This is a full time, fixed term, maternity cover post . This post is primarily linked to our North England Fostering service with an expectation of occasional travel further afield. Click here for full job details ![]() Location: Homebased - Northamptonshire/Bedfordshire/Peterborough Salary: SSW- £35,292 p.a. + £1,500 Out of Hours Allowance p.a. + £750 Homeworking Allowance p.a. Salary: SSSW - £39,880 p.a. + £1,500 Out of Hours Allowance + £750 Homeworking Allowance p.a. Closing Date: 05/08/2024 Interview Date: 13/08/2024 Home-based in Northamptonshire, Leicester, Peterborough, Central Milton Keynes with travel required to visit foster families located across the TACT East Midlands area
As a ‘not for profit’ organisation, TACT puts the needs of our children and carers first and looks to appoint individuals who are as passionate about fostering as we are. We are a homeworking organisation, and we pride ourselves on our flexible working opportunities, available from day one, an extensive well-being programme and our benefits package, all curated to nurture a healthy work-life balance for all our employees so they can give excellent service to our carers and the young people and children we care for. The East Midlands Team, who have been rated as Outstanding in their Ofsted inspection in February 2024, have a unique opportunity for either a Supervising Social Worker who is ready to progress their career to a Senior Supervising Social Worker or a current Senior Social Worker who understands trauma and therapeutic parenting approaches. This role will give the successful Social Worker a chance to build on their skills and knowledge in providing support and supervision to our foster families based in the East Midlands area, to help them manage the complex needs of the children and young people in their care. Click here for full job details ![]() Location: Salford Office – Hybrid - (with regular travel across the Northwest area) Salary: £34,100 per annum Contract Type: Fixed Term Full Time Closing Date: 25 July 2024 Location: Northwest England, Salford Office – Hybrid - (with regular travel to support foster carers in the Northwest area)
Contract/Hours: Fixed Term Contract – Until April 30th 2025- Full Time - 37 hours per week. A bit about the role North West Fostering service offers fostering placements using a therapeutic framework which draws upon theory and evidence around attachment and trauma-informed principles to scaffold the support that we offer to children and young people. Our aim is to provide safe, stable, supportive homes for children and young people who have a history of attachment disruption, abuse, neglect and trauma. We also offer an innovative WRAP service that supports children and young people who are either in Local Authority/IFA fostering and whose placements are at risk of breakdown. The Wrap service is designed to help prevent placement breakdown and maximize stability for a young person. Click here for full job details ![]() Location: Homebased in the North East Salary: £38,500 per annum Contract Type: Permanent Full Time Closing Date: 26 July 2024 Location: Northeast England, Home based (with regular travel to support foster carers in the Northeast area)
Contract/Hours: Permanent, Full-time, 37 hours per week (flexible hours considered) Interviews will be held week commencing the week of 5th August 2024 A bit about the role Fostering Northeast is a small and developing service that offers fostering placements using a therapeutic framework. Holding a manageable caseload, you will be supported to draw upon theory and evidence around attachment and trauma-informed principles to scaffold the support that we offer to children and young people. This includes working closely with a team of clinical psychologists. Our aim is to provide safe, stable, supportive homes for children and young people who have a history of attachment disruption, abuse, neglect and trauma. How you'll help to create a brighter future We are looking for an outstanding Fostering Social Worker who can support carers from across the Northeast, you will make a difference by:
Click here for full job details ![]() Location: Gloucestershire/Bristol Remote Worker Salary Range: £31,707- £33,421 per annum* Role Type: Part time* 30 hours per week 4 days a week Monday-Thurs 9am-5pm Closing date: 29th July 2024 *dependent on experience. (£39,634-£41,777 per annum FTE)
We're seeking to recruit an experienced and enthusiastic Supervising Social Worker (SSW) to join our team covering Gloucestershire/Bristol, working 4 days a week primarily from home. 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 4 times a year). Applicants need to be able to take a flexible approach to working, have proven fostering experience (demonstrating significant experience of working within Children’s Services) and be able to demonstrate outstanding people, report writing, organisation and recording skills. Click here for full job details ![]() Location: Cardiff Salary: £43,314 per annum (increasing to £48,126 in 18 months) + £750 Homeworking Allowance Hours: 35 hours per week Closing Date: 28/07/2024 Interview Date: 06/08/2024 Location: Homebased - Wales - travel required for recruitment activity across Wales and the Bristol areas.
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Recruitment Service as a Deputy Recruitment Manager. This role is responsible for the successful recruitment of new TACT foster carers, proactively building excellent relationships with potential fostering applicants & guiding them through the assessment & approval process. Overall Duties of the Deputy Recruitment Manager will include:
Click here for full job details ![]() Location: Peterborough Salary: Salary £11.95 per hour Contract Type: Zero Hours Specific Hours: Variable hours (Zero hours Contract) Closing Date: 28 July 2024 About the Role
We are looking to recruit a Fostering Support Worker (Bank) working closely with the supervising social workers, local authorities and other professionals to support foster placements. The role will involve:
Click here for full job details ![]() Location: Cambridge and Peterborough Salary: £24,786 per annum Contract Type: Permanent / Full Time Closing Date: 17/07/2024 23:59 About the role
As a Break Transition Worker, you’ll be working closely with young people who have recently left their children’s residential care home and are taking their first steps into independence. Success in this role will very much hinge on the strong, trusting relationship you’ll build with the group of young people you’re working with. You’ll make regular visits to their home and support them to increase their independent living skills. Whether that means teaching them one of your signature dishes (talk to Transition Worker Matt in Cambridgeshire for his Weetabix burger recipe), helping them to pay bills, applying for benefits or filling in a job application the role you will play in young people’s lives will be fundamental in supporting mental health, wellbeing and their future. You will help them break down the barriers they might feel as a young person leaving care and be the best possible version of themselves as they enter independence. You’ll work flexibly and have a can do attitude, be able to adapt your approach to suit the individuals or professionals you’re working with. You are calm under pressure and resilient enough to cope with challenging emotions and behaviours. Our houses are in Cambridge, Peterborough and Wisbech; you have access to a car for visiting our young people and are comfortable with lone working. Click here for full job details ![]() Location: Nottingham Salary: Competitive - Competitive see advert Contract: Zero Hours Hours: Part Time - Ad hoc Closing: 12 July 2024 The Children’s Family Trust (CFT) is a well-established Registered Charity and an Independent Fostering Agency. We provide a wide and varied range of foster placements and have historically specialised in long term ‘Family for Life’ placements. We firmly believe our Foster Carers are our most valuable resource deserving the highest levels of support and remuneration we can offer. We work in partnership with Local Authority Social Workers committed to keeping our children safe and secure in stable and loving families. Plus we are an Ofsted Outstanding agency!
Due to continued success and growth we are looking for independent, self-employed FORM F ASSESSORS For our East Midlands and West Midlands Regions Click here for full job details ![]() Location: West Bromwich Salary: £23,795 to £26,507 depending on experience Contract Type: Permanent Specific Hours: 40 hours per week, with some weekend and evening work Closing Date: 21 July 2024 About the Role
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:
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