Location: Homebased - North East Salary: £15,593 per annum + £450 Home Working Allowance per annum Hours: 21 hours Per Week - 3 days Closing Date: 04/03/2024 Interview Date: 15/03/2024 Location: Homebased with regular travel required to support children and young people in foster families throughout the North East, including Teesside, Tyneside, County Durham and Northumberland. 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 wellbeing programme and our benefits package, all curated to nurture a healthy work life balance for all our employees so they can give an excellent service to our carers and the young people and children we care for. As a foster care charity, TACT invests all surplus income into services, staff, carers, and child development. This means that we have been able to invest in unique projects like TACT Connect, our unique and ground-breaking scheme for TACT care experienced young people and adults, as well as our expanding TACT Education Service and our new Health Service. All our activities are built on our commitment to becoming a fully trauma-informed organisation, in line with our key values and ethos. TACT achieved 16th place in the UK Best Companies Work For survey results in 2023, with 91% of employees acknowledging that the organisation is run on strong values and principles and 94% stating they feel proud to work for this organisation. If you want to be valued as a professional, be appreciated at work and contribute to better outcomes for the children and young people connected with TACT, apply now. Overall Duties of the Engagement Activity Practitioner will include:
TACT offer an excellent employee benefits package including:
TACT is a home based workforce. We recognise the benefits that flexible home working creates for both the employer and the employee. The successful candidate will be required to attend regular face-to-face meetings at least quarterly in Borough-bridge and North Yorkshire and attend other face-to-face meetings such as training and team wellbeing events as well as meeting with children and young people in person around the Yorkshire region. As a remote working organisation, we are committed to working with our staff to enable consistent inclusion and engagement across the organisation to ensure the optimum standards of service for our carers and children. An Enhanced DBS clearance is required for this role and will be processed by TACT on your behalf. Please see the Job Information Pack, Job Description and TACT website at tactcare.org.uk for more detailed information. Closing Date: Monday, 4th March 2024 Interview Date: Friday, 15th March 2024 (via Microsoft Teams) Safeguarding is everyone’s business and TACT believes 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. We reserve the right to close a vacancy earlier than advertised if the volume of applications is excessive, you are therefore advised to apply at your earliest convenience. TACT does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies, nor the fees associated with them. Full details and application documents here Comments are closed.
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