 Location: Mid / North Wales region Salary: £12.77 per hour + 15% Holiday Pay Closing Date: 24/01/2021 Interview Date: 01/02/2021 Hours: Occasional Irregular Hours Child Resource Worker (Occasional Irregular Hours) - Required weekdays, evenings and weekends
Home-based (covering Mid/North Wales region) TACT Fostering is the UK’s leading charity provider of fostering services. Working across Scotland, England and Wales, we are dedicated to providing creative, effective and outcome-focused services for children, young people and families. We are looking for that unique person who can assist TACT in offering a range of services which impact positively on the welfare of children. To work in partnership with parents, carers, children, young people, local authorities and their social workers according to the agreed contract of work. The successful candidate will cover Mid / North Wales region, therefore the candidate should be based in this area. The candidate should have a full driver's licence and own a car for the required travelling. The overall purpose of this role is to work closely with looked after children, the birth children of foster carers and foster carers to achieve agreed objectives for excellent care as outlined in the 7 core aims for Children in Wales. Candidates with the ability to speak Welsh would be desirable. Due to the nature of this post the successful candidate must be willing to show flexibility regarding hours and days of work which will include evenings and weekends. Occasional overnight stays may be required for organised events. TACT will undertake an Enhanced DBS clearance for this role. Please see the Job Description and Application Information Pack for more details. Closing Date: Sunday, 24th January 2021 (by midnight) Interviews: Monday, 2nd February 2021 (via video interview using Microsoft Teams) Safeguarding is everyone’s business and TACT believe that only the people with the right skills and values should work in social work. As part of TACT’s commitment to safeguarding, we properly examine the skills, experience, qualifications and values of potential staff in relation to our work with vulnerable young children. We use rigorous and consistent recruitment approaches to help safeguard TACT’s young people. All our staff are expected to work in line with TACT’s safeguarding policies. TACT does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them. TACT reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications, so we advise you to submit your application as early as possible to prevent disappointment. Full details and application documents here  Location: Northants Salary: Up to £37,290 p.a. + £1,500 p.a. Out of Hours Allowance + £750 p.a. Home Working Allowance Closing Date: 24/01/2021 Interview Date: 01/02/21 Hours: 35 Hours Per Week TACT, the UK’s largest fostering charity now has over 500 dedicated carers, who look after over 600 children and young people across the country. Our reputation and growth rests upon our strength in providing successful placements. As a charity, we do not have shareholders who receive profits and we invest all of our surplus income into service, staff, carers, and children’s development.
Our vision is to provide better lives for our children and young people. Find out more about our values here: We are looking for a Senior Supervising Social Worker who will support and supervise the foster families and placements we have in East Midlands region. This is predominantly a home based role and the ideal candidate will be Northamptonshire based and willing to travel to surrounding areas and local authorities when it is safe to do so, as well as other areas of the East Midlands region such as Nottingham/Derbyshire and borders of Norfolk. We are interested in Senior Supervising Social Workers for whom quality of service is paramount and especially those who share our commitment to working in partnership with children and their foster carers in the development of the our services. The ideal candidate for this Senior Supervising Social Worker role should have post qualifying experience in family placement work or other child care settings as well as a good working knowledge of relevant legislation and child protection procedures. Main requirements:
TACT offer an excellent employee benefits package including:
Please see the Job Information Pack and Job Description for further information. You will need to be DipSW, CSS or CQSW qualified and registered with Social Work England. An enhanced DBS clearance is also required and will be processed by TACT on your behalf. The successful applicant will be required to support Duty and Ouf of Hours on a rota basis and will be paid an out of hours’ allowance of £1,500 per annum once participating in the rota. Closing: Midnight - Sunday 24th January 2021 Interviews: Monday 1st February 2021 (via Microsoft Teams) Safeguarding is everyone’s business and TACT believe that only the people with the right skills and values should work in social work. As part of TACT’s commitment to safeguarding, we properly examine the skills, experience, qualifications and values of potential staff in relation to our work with vulnerable young children. We use rigorous and consistent recruitment approaches to help safeguard TACT’s young people. All our staff are expected to work in line with TACT’s safeguarding policies. TACT does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them. TACT reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications, so we advise you to submit your application as early as possible to prevent disappointment. Full details and application documents here  Location: Northants Salary: £33,561 p.a. + £1,500 p.a. Out of Hours Allowance + £750 p.a. Home Working Allowance Closing Date: 10/01/2021 Interview Date: 21/01/2021 Hours: 35 Hours Per Week TACT, the UK’s largest fostering and adoption charity now has over 500 dedicated carers, who look after over 600 children and young people across the country. Our reputation and growth rests upon our strength in providing successful placements. As a charity, we do not have shareholders who receive profits and we invest all of our surplus income into service, staff, carers, and children’s development.
Our vision is to provide better lives for our children and young people. Find out more about our values here: We are looking for a Senior Supervising Social Worker who will support and supervise the foster families and placements we have in East Midlands region. This is predominantly a home based role and the ideal candidate will be Northamptonshire based and willing to travel to surrounding areas and local authorities when it is safe to do so, as well as other areas of the East Midlands region such as Norfolk and Nottingham/Derbyshire as needed. We are interested in Senior Supervising Social Workers for whom quality of service is paramount and especially those who share our commitment to working in partnership with children and their foster carers in the development of the our services. The ideal candidate for this Senior Supervising Social Worker role should have post qualifying experience in family placement work or other child care settings as well as a good working knowledge of relevant legislation and child protection procedures. Main requirements:
TACT offer an excellent employee benefits package including:
Please see the Job Information Pack and Job Description for further information. You will need to be DipSW, CSS or CQSW qualified and registered with Social Work England. An enhanced DBS clearance is also required and will be processed by TACT on your behalf. The successful applicant will be required to support Duty and Ouf of Hours on a rota basis and will be paid an out of hours’ allowance of £1,500 per annum once participating in the rota. Closing: Midnight - Sunday 10th January 2021 Interviews: Thursday 21st January 2021 (via Microsoft Teams) Safeguarding is everyone’s business and TACT believe that only the people with the right skills and values should work in social work. As part of TACT’s commitment to safeguarding, we properly examine the skills, experience, qualifications and values of potential staff in relation to our work with vulnerable young children. We use rigorous and consistent recruitment approaches to help safeguard TACT’s young people. All our staff are expected to work in line with TACT’s safeguarding policies. TACT does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them. TACT reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications, so we advise you to submit your application as early as possible to prevent disappointment. Full details and application documents here  Location: Nationwide Salary: £31,500 Per Annum + £750 (Home Working Allowance) Per Annum Closing Date: 10/01/2021 Interview Date: 21/01/2021 Hours: 35 Hours Per Week TACT is the UK’s largest specialist charity provider of fostering services. Our core work involves providing high quality and well supported fostering families for children and young people in the care of local authorities. Working in partnership with local authorities across England, Wales and Scotland, we are dedicated to providing creative, effective and outcome-focused services. We also campaign on behalf of care experienced children and young people, their carers and are a leading voice in the sector.
Our vision is to provide better lives for our children and young people. At TACT, we understand that when a young person leaves care, the experience of being in care stays with them. TACT Connect keeps our young people connected later in life, building a community where they will be celebrated, supported and remain connected through their adult years. By being part of TACT Connect, our young people will become part of a lifetime community that continues to care and show other care experienced people that they are not alone. They'll have the chance to learn and access new skills, support to reach their aspirations and meet others and work alongside TACT. As TACT Connect Coordinator you will be responsible for the growth and development of the service and the support of this care experienced community. You will work with others to deliver the program objectives, including the delivery of a peer mentoring service and support a network of care experienced advisors. The successful candidate will have:
The successful applicant MUST also be willing to work occasional weekends and evenings. We will particularly welcome applications from those who are themselves care experienced. Full details are provided in the Job Description and Person Specification. The TACT Connect Coordinator will be eligible for TACT's excellent benefits package including:
Please see the job information pack for further information. Closing date: Sunday,10th January 2021 Interviews: Thursday, 21st January 2021, via Microsoft Teams Safeguarding is everyone’s business and TACT believe that only the people with the right skills and values should work in social work. As part of TACT’s commitment to safeguarding, we properly examine the skills, experience, qualifications and values of potential staff in relation to our work with vulnerable young children. We use rigorous and consistent recruitment approaches to help safeguard TACT’s young people. All our staff are expected to work in line with TACT’s safeguarding policies. TACT does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them. TACT reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications, so we advise you to submit your application as early as possible to prevent disappointment. Full details and application documents here  Location: South Coast Salary: £12.77 per hour + 15% Holiday Pay Closing Date: 03/01/2021 Interview Date: 11/01/2021 Hours: Occasional Irregular Hours TACT is the UK’s largest specialist charity provider of fostering services. Our core work involves providing high quality and well supported fostering or adoptive families for children and young people in the care of local authorities. Working in partnership with local authorities from our offices across England, Wales and Scotland, we are dedicated to providing creative, effective and outcome-focused services. We also campaign on behalf of children and young people in care, carers and adoptive families and are a leading voice in the sector.
Our vision is to provide better lives for our children and young people. Find out more about our values here. We are looking for an experienced individual to be a Children's Support Worker with the TACT London and the South team, offering a range of services which impact positively on the welfare of children. The Children's Support Worker will work in partnership with parents, carers, children, young people, local authorities and their social workers according to the agreed contract of work. Experience of working with children and young people and excellent communication skills are essential and a qualification in youth and community work, or the equivalent, would be desirable. The overall purpose of the Children's Support Worker role is to work closely with looked after children, the birth children of foster carers and the foster carers, to achieve agreed objectives for excellent care as outlined in the 5 Every Child Matters Outcome Areas in England. Due to the nature of this post the successful candidate will need to be willing to work with flexibility regarding hours and days of work and occasional overnight stays may be required for organised events. This role will cover the Dorset and Hampshire areas. This is not a full time time role. The hours are occasional and irregular depending on the needs of the foster children and foster families. This includes evenings and weekends. An enhanced DBS clearance is required for this role which TACT will undertake on your behalf. Please see the Job Description and Information Pack for more details. Closing: Midnight Sunday 3rd January 2021 Interviews: Monday 11th January 2021 (via Microsoft teams) Safeguarding is everyone’s business and TACT believe that only the people with the right skills and values should work in social work. As part of TACT’s commitment to safeguarding, we properly examine the skills, experience, qualifications and values of potential staff in relation to our work with vulnerable young children. We use rigorous and consistent recruitment approaches to help safeguard TACT’s young people. All our staff are expected to work in line with TACT’s safeguarding policies. TACT does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them. TACT reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications, so we advise you to submit your application as early as possible to prevent disappointment. Full details and application documents here  Location: Walsall Salary:Up to £37,290 p.a.+ £1,500 p.a. (OOH) + £750 p.a. (Homeworking Allowance) Closing Date: 16/12/2020 Interview Date: 14/01/2021 Hours: 35 hours per week Full Time - Permanent (Monday to Thursday 9.00 - 17.15 and Friday 9.00 - 16.00)
Home based TACT, the UK’s largest fostering and adoption charity now has over 500 dedicated carers, who look after over 600 children and young people across the country. Our reputation and growth rests upon our strength in providing successful placements. As a charity, we do not have shareholders who receive profits and we invest all of our surplus income into service, staff, carers, and children’s development. Our vision is to provide better lives for our children and young people. Find out more about our values here: https://www.tactcare.org.uk/about-us/ A post has arisen for a Senior Supervising Social Worker who will support and supervise the foster families and placements we have in the West Midlands area in this home based role. The successful candidate will be part of the wider, dynamic and forward thinking registered office in Walsall. We are interested in individuals for whom quality of service is paramount and in those who share our commitment to working in partnership with children and their foster carers in the development of the agency. The successful candidate should also have post qualifying experience in family placement work or other child care settings as well as a good working knowledge of relevant legislation and child protection procedures. TACT offer an excellent employee benefits package including:
Please see the Job Information Pack for further information. You will need to be DipSW, CSS or CQSW qualified and registered with Social Work England. An enhanced DBS clearance is also required and is requested for you by TACT. The successful applicant will be required to participate in an Ouf of Hours rota paid as an allowance of £1,500 per annum. Closing: Wednesday, 16th December 2020 Interviews: Thursday, 14th January 2021 (via video Microsoft Teams) Safeguarding is everyone’s business and TACT believe that only the people with the right skills and values should work in social work. As part of TACT’s commitment to safeguarding, we properly examine the skills, experience, qualifications and values of potential staff in relation to our work with vulnerable young children. We use rigorous and consistent recruitment approaches to help safeguard TACT’s young people. All our staff are expected to work in line with TACT’s safeguarding policies. TACT does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them. TACT reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications, so we advise you to submit your application as early as possible to prevent disappointment. Full details and application documents here  TACT is delighted to announce that it has received a grant of £475,000 from the Big Lottery Fund to continue the TACT Connect service which provides much needed support for our care experienced people across England.
TACT believes that parenting does not stop at 18, 21 or 25. We have a lifelong duty of care towards our foster children. TACT Connect is an innovative new scheme that aims to address the high levels of isolation and mental health issues affecting those that have left care, by offering a lifetime support network for those who have been fostered through TACT, promoting and creating opportunities and facilitating peer mentoring. There are currently 150 TACT Connect members and this is constantly growing. TACT Connect Coordinator Verity Lindley said: “Care experienced adults are already vulnerable to social isolation and the pandemic is only making the problem worse. Thanks to this money from the Big Lottery Fund, we can start to build a supportive community with continued access to information, support, opportunities and life-long friendships. It is vital that we do better to ensure care-experienced adults are supported and celebrated.” Though each care leaver has had a unique journey through the care system and beyond, TACT recognises that they are a community with shared experiences, who often face discrimination, disadvantage and specific challenges. In comparison with their peers, care experienced people are more likely to be unemployed or not in education or training, with over a third of 19-year-old olds being in this category (Department of Education 2015). Mental health issues are also prevalent; one in four care experienced people have faced a mental health crisis since leaving care (Barnardo’s 2017). Both isolation and lack of opportunity are issues that have become more urgent due to the pandemic. TACT CEO Andy Elvin said: “It’s important as a parent that you stay in touch with and support your children throughout their lives. The state can be a not so great parent because once people have left care at 18 or 21, it doesn’t know what’s going on in their lives. So, TACT Connect is our way of addressing that and we are very grateful to the Big Lottery Fund for enabling the service to grow”. TACT Connect is driven and shaped by its care-experienced community and six of its members have recently been appointed as special Advisers, tasked with using their experience of the care system to ensure the service meets the needs of other care experienced people. When Jarra, one of the TACT Connect Advisers, left care and her foster family at 18, it was an overwhelming experience, and she suffered bouts of loneliness. Jarra says: “I know how difficult it can be to leave care and your foster family, so I understand the problems that new care leavers often face, and I look forward to sharing with them how I coped. I also want to show them that there is a lot of help out there, especially from TACT Connect, which can give them the chance to meet new people with similar experiences and provide advice and support with things like education, careers, and independent living” TACT Connect Adviser, Iqra, says: “Feelings of isolation are affecting everyone and for care leavers this can be amplified. In my new role as a TACT Connect Advisor, we are all working together to keep everyone connected. I consider this role to be so important. I have been through similar experiences as the young people who are part of the group and I hope this allows them to feel seen, heard and understood.” Source: www.tactcare.org.uk  I was 12 years old when I went to live with my foster carers Carol and Peter. I remember visiting them a few days before I moved in, and although I felt anxious as everything was new and different, I also felt relieved as I really liked them. It was my fourth foster placement and so it felt like I was starting my life all over again.
As soon as I had moved in it felt great to be a part of Carol and Peter’s family, with new sisters which are their birth daughters and cats and dogs to look after. Since then I have had some very special experiences such as being a bridesmaid for their wedding vow renewal ceremony and becoming a god mother to their granddaughter Daisy. Carol and Peter fundraise for charities working with children in Gambia and we went there to visit a school and orphanage. It was amazing and made me realise how lucky I am and how much I have. Six years after I was placed with Carol and Peter, they are no longer just my foster carers, they are my family and I call them mum and dad. That is why, when I recently turned 18, I decided to take their surname as my own. It felt right to do that, and it was a lovely birthday present. Like most young people in the care system, when I became 18 I had the option to move on to independent living, but I am not ready for that, and so I will continue living with my family under the Staying Put Scheme so I can concentrate on my college course. I am in my third year doing hospitality and catering. My ultimate goal is to join the Navy when I am 21. Foster carers are very special people in my personal opinion, and to be a good carer I think you need to be kind, understanding, considerate and listen to what the child is saying and not be just judgmental. Children go into care under lots of different circumstances, which can create situations that may affect both the child and the placement, so please be open minded. Source: www.tactcare.org.uk/chloes-story  Location: Northants Salary: £9,720 pa (FTE £24,300) + £300 Homeworking Allowance (FTE £750) Hours: 14 Hours Per Week (Monday & Tuesday) Closing Date: 26/10/2020 Interview Date: 04/11/2020 TACT, the UK’s largest fostering and adoption charity. Formed in 1993, we now have over 500 dedicated carers, who look after over 600 children and young people across the country. Our reputation and growth rests upon our strength in providing successful placements. As a charity, we do not have shareholders who receive profits and we invest all of our surplus income into service, staff, carers, and children's development.
TACT offer an excellent benefits package including:
Building upon our reputation for delivering excellent outcomes for children. We are now looking for a dynamic, enthusiastic, highly-motivated individual with experience in administration within the social care field to work with us as a Homebased Placement Officer. The Placement Officer is responsible for receiving placement requests for children who need to be looked after and matching them to our foster carer in cooperation with the Duty Social Worker. The role requires exceptional communication skills and discretion, sensitivity and the capability to deal with conflicting priorities at times. The successful applicant will have the following essential attributes:
Please see the Placement Officer Job Description and Job Information Pack for full details. Closing Date: Monday, 26th October 2020 Interviews: Wednesday, 4th November 2020 (via Microsoft Teams) Safeguarding is everyone’s business and TACT believe that only the people with the right skills and values should work in social work. As part of TACT’s commitment to safeguarding, we properly examine the skills, experience, qualifications and values of potential staff in relation to our work with vulnerable young children. We use rigorous and consistent recruitment approaches to help safeguard TACT’s young people. All our staff are expected to work in line with TACT’s safeguarding policies. TACT does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them. TACT reserve the right to close this vacancy early if sufficient numbers of applications are received, you are therefore advised to submit your application as early as possible to prevent disappointment. Full details and application details here www.tactcare.org.uk  Location: Nationwide (Homebased) Salary: £13,050 pa (£26,100 per annum FTE) Closing Date: 19/10/2020 Interview Date: 30/10/2020 Hours: 17.5 Hours Per Week TACT is the UK’s largest specialist charity provider of fostering. Our core work involves providing high quality and well supported fostering families for children and young people in the care of local authorities. Working in partnership with local authorities from our offices across England, Wales and Scotland, we are dedicated to providing creative, effective and outcome-focused services. We also campaign on behalf of children and young people in care, carers and adoptive families and are a leading voice in the sector.
Our vision is to provide better lives for our children and young people. Working with the Big Lottery we are looking for a dynamic, enthusiastic and highly-motivated individual to lead on developing a peer mentoring service for the young people we look after. You will be a part of our innovative TACT Connect team that facilitates a lifelong network of suppo rt for care experienced adults. You will recruit and support care experienced adults to mentor children as they prepare to leave care and strive to fulfil their potential and become successful young adults. The core purpose of the TACT Connect Mentoring Worker, in close liaison with the TACT Connect Coordinator, will be to develop and deliver an effective and energetic volunteer service, specifically recruiting and training care experienced peer mentors and matching them with the children we look after, so they can best be supported as they prepare to make the big step into adult life. The successful applicant for the TACT Connect Mentoring Worker will have:
Full details of the role can be found in the TACT Connect Mentoring Worker Job Description. TACT offer an excellent benefits package including:
An enhanced DBS Check will be required for this role and will be requested by TACT on your behalf. Closing Date: Monday 19th October 2020 Interviews: Friday 30th October 2020 (Via Microsoft Teams) TACT reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications, so we advise you to submit your application as early as possible to prevent disappointment. Safeguarding is everyone’s business and TACT believe that only the people with the right skills and values should work in social work. As part of TACT’s commitment to safeguarding, we properly examine the skills, experience, qualifications and values of potential staff in relation to our work with vulnerable young children. We use rigorous and consistent recruitment approaches to help safeguard TACT’s young people. All our staff are expected to work in line with TACT’s safeguarding policies. Source: www.tactcare.org.uk |
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