Job Opportunity with Community Foster Care - Placement & Family Support Worker

Job Location: Lancaster
Salary: £22,873.40 - £26,339.07 (FTE) dependent on experience
Hours: 18.75 hours per week. Option for flexible working patterns across the week.
Closing Date: - 5pm on 25th May 2022

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We are looking for a  Placement and Family Support Worker to work with children, young people and families to overcome challenges and adversity, enabling them to reach their potential. You will develop and call on a range of creative techniques and interventions that enable Children and Young People to thrive. From this secure confident position, we will enable them to take the next positive step. You will ensure we can evidence this progress.

What would you need to do?

• Work directly with a child or young person to provide direct support
• Provide group-based interventions and activities for children and young people
• Promote and encourage the participation of young people 
• Provide emergency support to a young person or carer

What do we need from you?

• A tenacity and commitment to resolve and develop our ability to enable children to thrive
• A willingness to embrace challenge and actively seek constructive feedback 
• A willingness and ability to be highly functioning team player
• A willingness to work in a flexible way, to cover additional tasks where required, not specifically covered in the job description
• A commitment to anti oppressive practice, underpinned by an understanding and promotion of equality and diversity

Interested?
Download the Job Description or contact Rae Edwards on 01452 849301 for more information.

To apply please download and complete an application form and securely email it to [email protected] no later than 5pm on Wednesday 25th May 2022

Full details and application documents here