Member Job Opportunity: Community Foster Care - Support Work Coordinator

Location: Gloucester or Lancaster (with the expectation to have a presence across both locations)

Salary: £28,884-31,162
Hours: 30 hours per week
Closing date: 12 noon Wednesday 2nd February 2022
Interview date: Provisionally 9th February 2022 at our Gloucester Office

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Role Summary
To co-ordinate one or more projects working with children, young people, and families to enable them to
thrive through delivering high quality services. You will be responsible for supervising a small team of
support workers as well as delivering 1:1 and group based interventions where required.

Key drivers of considerations
As a Support Co-ordinator, you will at all times:

• Work consistently with Community Foster Care’s values and contribute to achieving its mission.
• Seek to develop and enhance good working practice (to include suitable levels of work performance)for yourself and your colleagues.
• Promote Community Foster Care’s reputation and protect its ability to achieve its mission.

Key requirements of which you should be aware:

• The role of a Support Coordinator may mean you will need to work some evenings and weekends. You may be required to work outside of office hours to:

              - Attend any appropriate meetings or events;
              - To meet the demands of your role;
              - To offer support to your team as required.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

Outcome Based Support Service

• Take a lead on promoting and facilitating the participation of young people in the organisation.
  
• Take a lead on ensuring service feedback from children, young people, and families is obtained and used to inform service delivery.
  
• To coordinate one or more areas of project delivery and ensure a high standard of work.
  
• To provide line management and supervision to a team of support workers across different geographic locations.
  
• Where required/directed, provide time limited support to the child, young person or their family, in order to ensure their safety and wellbeing is promoted and assists in:

              - preventing family breakdown;
              - crisis or admission into care;
              - return to home following a period in care;
              - supporting a family in order that the child can remain in a foster                  placement;
              - providing activity based interventions as required.

• Provide emergency support to foster carers as and when required.
  
• Provide group based interventions and activities for children, young people, carers or families.
  
• Attend a variety of meetings to support a child or young person;
  
• To review progress and monitor at all times, regularly reporting back to the Service Manager;
  
• To ensure a flexible service around school hours and availability of the child, young person or family;
  
• To support with unannounced visits to foster carers.
  
• To support with the core functions of the charity, such as screening and responding to referrals and enabling the effective making of placements

Full details and application documents here