![]() Location: Middlesbrough with travel Salary: £41,012.05 - £47,579.65 per annum Contract: Full Time, Permanent Hours: 37.5 hours per week – Monday to Friday 9.00 am – 5.00 pm Closing Date: 15 July 2024. Based in our Middlesbrough office with a requirement to work flexibly across the North East area
Starting salary is dependent upon skills and experience There will be a requirement to take part in our call out system as per the needs of the agency. We offer hybrid working which includes a blend of home and office working with a minimum of one day per week in our office An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Supervising Social Worker to join our successful and GOOD rated North East Team. Your office base will be located at our Middlesbrough office and you will cover a caseload across the North East Region. You will share our commitment to delivering high quality services for children and young people and support our foster carers to do this too. As a Supervising Social Worker you will provide a high level of supervision and support to foster carers, as well as the children and young people who are placed in their care. You will have the knowledge and skills to undertake the full range of Supervising Social Worker tasks, including supervising foster carers, working with other professionals, report writing and attendance at meetings. Not only will you have excellent communication and interpersonal skills you will also be hardworking, positive, and motivated to improve outcomes for looked after children. Click here for full job details Job Opportunity with Team Fostering: Supervising Social Worker - fixed term (Middlesbrough)5/7/2024
![]() Location: Middlesbrough with travel Salary: £41,012.05 - £47,579.65 per annum Hours: 37.5 hours per week – Monday to Friday 9.00 am – 5.00 pm Contract: Fixed term contract for 12 months Closing Date: 15 July 2024 Based in our Middlesbrough office with a requirement to work flexibly across the North East area.
Starting salary is dependent upon skills and experience. There will be a requirement to take part in our call out system as per the needs of the agency. We offer hybrid working which includes a blend of home and office working with a minimum of one day per week in our office An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Supervising Social Worker to join our successful and GOOD rated North East team. Your base will be located at our Middlesbrough office and you will cover a caseload across the North East region. You will share our commitment to delivering high quality services for children and young people and support our foster carers to do this too. As a Supervising Social Worker you will provide a high level of supervision and support to foster carers, as well as the children and young people who are placed in their care. You will have the knowledge and skills to undertake the full range of Supervising Social Worker tasks, including supervising foster carers, working with other professionals, report writing and attendance at meetings. Not only will you have excellent communication and interpersonal skills you will also be hardworking, positive, and motivated to improve outcomes for looked after children. Click here for full job details Job Opportunity with Team Fostering: Independent Panel Members (Yorkshire and East Midlands)18/6/2024
![]() Location: Sheffield Salary: £184.15 attendance per panel, plus expenses (based on an average half day panel) Hours: Variable Monthly (depending on Panel Business) Responsible to: Independent Panel Chair Team Fostering is an ethical, not for profit fostering agency with a strong reputation and proven track record for providing high quality foster homes for care experienced children. Fostering panels have a crucial role to play in the provision and monitoring of foster care for children. The fostering panel provides independent oversight of the recruitment, assessment and review of foster carers and makes reasoned recommendations on their suitability to foster.
An opportunity has arisen for panel members to join our central list and to complement our Yorkshire and East Midlands Region fostering panel. As a panel member, you will contribute to the provision of a first-class fostering service for children through effective participation in fostering panel business. Drawing on any relevant knowledge, experience, and skills you will be required to contribute to panel business efficiently in accordance with the fostering regulations and the policies and procedures of Team Fostering. Good listening and communication skills are essential along with the ability to make an assessment based on the written and oral information presented to the panel in order to discuss and make recommendations in a balanced and informed manner. A reasonable knowledge of fostering and the regulatory framework and the fostering standards is also required, as well as evidence of a strong commitment to achieving positive outcomes for children. As a panel member, you will need to be available to attend a panel one day a month. Your responsibilities will include:
Further details and application documents here ![]() Location: North Shields, Hybrid Salary: £24,607.23 - £28,547.80 per annum (£41,012.05 - £47,579.65 per annum FTE) Contract: Fixed Term - 12 Months Hours: 22.5 (Wednesday - Friday) We offer hybrid working which includes a blend of home and office working with a minimum of one day per week in our office.
Team Fostering is an ethical not for profit fostering agency with a strong reputation and track record for providing high quality, value for money fostering placements for looked after children in the North East, Yorkshire and East Midlands. We pride ourselves on our values and behaviours and we expect our staff to commit to and demonstrate these in their everyday work. An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Supervising Social Worker to join our successful and GOOD rated North East Team. Your office base will be located at our North Shields office and you will cover a caseload across the North East Region. You will share our commitment to delivering high quality services for children and young people and support our foster carers to do this too. As a Supervising Social Worker you will provide a high level of supervision and support to foster carers, as well as the children and young people who are placed in their care. You will have the knowledge and skills to undertake the full range of Supervising Social Worker tasks, including supervising foster carers, working with other professionals, report writing and attendance at meetings. Not only will you have excellent communication and interpersonal skills you will also be hardworking, positive, and motivated to improve outcomes for looked after children. Whilst experience in fostering is beneficial, we welcome applications from newly qualified Social Workers and Social Workers with the relevant skills, commitment and enthusiasm who are seeking to move into fostering. You will benefit from a robust training and induction package to support your development within our team. Further details and application documents here ![]() Location: Tyne & Wear Salary: £184.15 per panel. Hours: Variable Monthly (depending on Panel Business) Closing Date: Friday 31st May, 2024 The Panel Vice-Chair will receive £184.15 per panel. In the absence of the Panel Chair, the Vice Chair will be expected to deputise and will therefore receive £460.25 per panel.
Team Fostering is an ethical, not for profit fostering agency with a strong reputation and proven track record for providing high quality foster homes for care experienced children. Fostering panels have a crucial role to play in the provision and monitoring of foster care for children. The fostering panel provides independent oversight of the recruitment, assessment and review of foster carers and makes reasoned recommendations on their suitability to foster. An exciting opportunity has arisen within Team Fostering to appoint an Independent Vice Chair for the North East fostering Panel. As an Independent Chair you will be responsible for contributing to the provision of a first-class fostering service for children through the effective chairing and participation in fostering Panel meetings. As a panel member, you will need to be available to attend a panel one day a month. As Panel Vice Chair your responsibilities will include:
A knowledge of fostering and the regulatory framework and standards surrounding it as well as evidence of a commitment to achieving positive outcomes for children are all essential qualities we are seeking for this post. As the Vice Chair you will also be required to contribute to the continuous development of the agency through working effectively with the Panel Adviser, the Agency Decision Maker and other Senior Managers. Further details and application documents here ![]() Location: Sheffield Salary: £15,474.41 - £17,881.54 per annum depending on experience (£25,790.69 - £29,802.57 per annum FTE) Hours: Full Time - 22.5 hours per week (Days and working pattern to be agreed but must include working on a Monday) Closing Date: 15 April 2024 Based at: Sheffield (Unit 3 & 4, Shepcote Village, Sheffield, S9 1TG)
(Please note we do not operate a performance related reward system or automatic incremental payments.) The main office base will be Sheffield with a requirement to travel occasionally to our East Midlands and North East office locations. We offer hybrid working which includes a blend of home and office working with a minimum of one day per week in our office. Team Fostering is an ethical (not for profit) independent fostering agency with a strong reputation for providing high quality, value for money foster care for looked after children. We pride ourselves on our values and behaviours and we expect our staff to commit to and demonstrate these in their everyday work. We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic Training Co-ordinator to join our successful fostering agency. The post holder will support the Training Manager and contribute to the development, co-ordination and delivery of mandatory and non-mandatory training to Foster families across the Agency, promoting a high standard of care for children and young people. The successful candidate will have excellent inter-personal skills and relevant qualifications in administration/information technology. They will also need to be competent in the operational use of remote platforms TEAMS/ZOOM. Experience of working within a diverse adult group is essential, together with an ability to always maintain confidentiality. Experience of working for a fostering service would be desirable. The successful candidate must have a full driving licence and access to a car for work. A willingness to travel to other office locations and the ability to work flexibly, including occasional weekends is also essential. Further details and application documents can be found here ![]() Team Fostering is a not for profit fostering Agency, with an annual turnover of £9m, based in the North East, Yorkshire and the East Midlands. We have been successfully supporting children and young people living in foster care to achieve positive outcomes since 2001. We are looking for a third Non-Executive Director, based within this geographical footprint, who has an extensive background in business management in a commercial environment with demonstrable recent success in developing a business with a multi-million pound turnover and proven skills in delivering excellence in customer satisfaction. This person must also be able to work within our values and behaviours framework, demonstrating an understanding of our Not for Profit status and subscribe to our principles of working as an ethical agency. This successful candidate will also provide a creative contribution to the Board via objective criticism and independent judgement on issues of strategy, performance and resourcing of the Agency, including involvement in key appointments and standards of conduct. The post holder will be independent of any of the company’s interested parties and bring a degree of objectivity and impartiality to the Board’s deliberations and play a valuable role monitoring executive management. This is a part time role requiring, as a minimum, 30 day’s work per year and a minimum of 1.5 days worked each month equating to £15,243.75 per annum. Part of this monthly commitment is attendance at a monthly Board meeting which will be held in either our North Shields, Middlesbrough, Sheffield or South Normanton, Derbyshire office. An annual retainer of £3,774.60 is also paid and other responsibilities and pieces of work taken on, at the direction of the Board, are paid at an hourly rate of £67.75. Please note Team Fostering does not accept CVs. The closing date for application for this role is 9.00 am on Monday 8 April 2024. For further information, please contact Mark Alden, Board Chair & Non- Executive Director on 07483 262208. All posts are subject to Enhanced DBS Disclosure Please note if you are shortlisted for interview we will contact you via the email you have provided. Please ensure you check your emails regularly. Full details and application documents here ![]() Location: North Shields - Hybrid Salary Banding: £26,368.97 to £29,964.75 per annum depending on experience Hours: 37.5 per week Closing Date: 2 March 2024 Full time: 37.5 hours per week (working flexibly between Monday - Sunday)
This role will involve some weekend working. This would typically be 3 hours one weekend a month, a responsibility which will be shared with colleagues on the team on a rota basis. There may be rare occasions where this would mean working more hours on a weekend but this would be planned well in advance. Weekend working would involve taking this time back during the working week to allow flexibility for both the post holder and the agency. Salary Banding: £26,368.97 to £29,964.75 per annum depending on experience Please note: we do not operate a performance related reward system or automatic incremental payments. We offer hybrid working which includes a blend of home and office working with a minimum of one day per week in our office. Team Fostering is an ethical not for profit fostering agency with a strong reputation and track record for providing high quality, value for money fostering placements for looked after children. We pride ourselves on our values and we expect our staff to commit to and demonstrate these values in their everyday work. As part of our continued growth as an agency and the on-going development of our services, we are expanding our Recruitment Team and would welcome applications from skilled professionals to support the agency in recruiting skilled and suitable foster carers by dealing with initial enquiries, liaising with potential foster carers, attending community based recruitment events, working closely with marketing colleagues, and engaging with current foster carers. The successful applicant will have:
Further details and application documents here ![]() Location: Hybrid, North Shields Salary: Newly Qualified: £38,480.00 - £40,207.89 per annum Progressed: £40,207.89 - £46,646.72 per annum (minimum 2 years post-qualifying experience) Hours: 37.5 per week Closing date: 9am on Monday 19 February 2024 We offer hybrid working which includes a blend of home and office working with a minimum of one day per week in our office
About The Role: Team Fostering is an ethical not for profit fostering agency with a strong reputation and track record for providing high quality, value-for-money fostering placements for looked after children in the North East, Yorkshire and East Midlands. We pride ourselves on our values and behaviours and we expect our staff to commit to and demonstrate these in their everyday work. An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Supervising Social Worker to join our successful and Ofsted GOOD rated North East Team. Your office base will be located at our North Shields office and you will cover a caseload across the North East Region. You will share our commitment to delivering high quality services for children and young people and support our foster carers to do this too. As a Supervising Social Worker you will provide a high level of supervision and support to foster carers, as well as the children and young people who are placed in their care. You will have the knowledge and skills to undertake the full range of Supervising Social Worker tasks, including supervising foster carers, working with other professionals, report writing and attendance at meetings. Not only will you have excellent communication and interpersonal skills you will also be hardworking, positive, and motivated to improve outcomes for looked after children. Whilst experience in fostering is beneficial, we welcome applications from newly qualified Social Workers and Social Workers with the relevant skills, commitment and enthusiasm who are seeking to move into fostering. You will benefit from a robust training and induction package to support your development within our team. The benefits of joining Team Fostering
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You will ideally Have worked in a fostering related social work role and /or child social care, such as a looked after children’s team, however this is not essential. Our recruitment process aims to create and maintain a safe workforce and contains robust vetting procedures. The successful applicants will be offered a role subject to satisfactory references, Social Work England registration and an enhanced DBS check. Team Fostering are wholly committed to our ongoing investment in our staff’s professional training and development, health and wellbeing. We are immensely proud of our recognition as a Living Wage Employer, an Investors in People Employer which we have held since 2006, our accreditation as a Mindful Employer and the achievement of our Better Health Award at Continuing Excellence level. Team Fostering is an equal opportunity and Disability Confident Committed employer that is committed to equality, diversity, inclusion and belonging at work. As we continue to grow, we know that we must have the most talented employees with diverse backgrounds, cultures, perspectives, and experiences to support our children and young people. For an informal chat about the post please contact Martin Hanson (Registered Manager – North East) on 07939 588417 or Sandra Kennedy (Assistant Director – Fostering Services) on 07717 762125. Team Fostering strives to be diverse and inclusive – a place where we can ALL be ourselves. We particularly encourage applications from people who identify as Black, Asian or from a Minority Ethnic background, who are underrepresented within the agency. To apply, please complete an Application Form and Equal Opportunities Form (available below) and return to [email protected] no later than 9am on Monday 19th February 2024. Please note Team Fostering does not accept CV’s. Closing date: 9 am on Monday 19 February 2024 Interviews will be held on Friday 1 March at our North Shields office This post is subject to an Enhanced DBS Disclosure Please note if you are shortlisted for interview, we will contact you via the email you have provided. Please ensure you check your emails regularly. Full details and application documents here ![]() One of TACT’s foster carers has been featured in an episode of The One Show. Dan chatted to former Olympian Fatima Whitbread, who was in care herself as a child, about various schemes and initiatives that have the potential to support existing foster carers, whilst also attracting new carers. One of these initiatives is the establishment of ‘fostering friendly’ workplaces. Many people dismiss fostering because they already have a full-time job. Fostering friendly workplaces offer foster carers additional support, such as more annual leave, to help with fostering commitments. Dan spoke about fostering whilst retaining a full-time job. He got additional leave to attend training and meetings: “I think it is just the time commitment – every child will have several meetings that you have to attend that will always be during the working week. “In the past if I was to go on a mandatory training course for first aid, I would have taken a day’s holiday to do that, whereas now I can take that day off work and use my holiday with the children which is much more beneficial.” John Lewis is one of 160 fostering friendly companies currently in the UK. Dame Sharon White, who is the current Chair of The John Lewis Partnership, talked about its new initiative: “If a foster carer has more support, not only is it incredibly motivating for your people, but actually it creates real engagement and real loyalty to the business – before you know it, we’ve made real impact.” It is clear that offering flexibility for your foster-caring workforce benefits both employee and business. Staff are granted more time to spend with the young people in their care, and employers gain staff loyalty. TACT are proud to be one of the 160 UK organisations listed as being fostering friendly. If you are currently working and are interested in becoming a foster carer, we encourage you to enquire with TACT to discuss your individual circumstances in more detail to understand how fostering could work for you. Source: www.tactcare.org.uk/ |
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