Member Job Opportunity: TACT Connect Engagement and Wellbeing Worker (Fostering)

Location: Nationwide
Salary: £26,100 pa + £750 pa Home Working Allowance and £3,777 pa London Weighting (if applicable)
Closing Date: 28/09/2022
Interview Date: 07/10/22
Hours: 35 Per Week

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Hours: 35 Hours per week, Monday to Friday

Contract Type / Location: Permanent - Homebased with occasional travel to meetings and events

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.

TACT Connect is a national programme set up by TACT Fostering, created to offer both support and, most importantly, community to teens and adults who live within or have lived within TACT fostering families. Connect works across regions, being predominantly online, and is open to those aged 15 and upwards (TACT Connect). This Big Lottery Funded scheme, offers a Mentoring Programme to young people between 15 to 18-years-old and full membership to those who are aged 16 and beyond. TACT Connect community, provides all new members with a Membership Welcome Box and 16+ members have access to our members-only online Connect Hub. The Connect Hub provides information, support, and up to 10 online community spaces per month for member participation. This year, we are also hosting face-to-face and residential meetings, spending time together at our very first TACT Connect Get Away in the countryside.

As our TACT Connect Engagement and Wellbeing Worker, you will be responsible lead on engaging with members, being available to celebrate achievements, offering guidance around life’s challenges, and, where needed, engaging with other professionals to promote education, employment, good wellbeing and healthy relationships. The Engagement and Wellbeing Worker will use excellent communication skills to support members in participating and developing the TACT Connect scheme and facilitate online groups and face-to-face events.  Working closely with other team members you will ensure the experience and information provided by members is considered, listened to and feeds into TACT Connect as a whole. 

There will be considerable opportunities for professional and personal growth while working as part of a passionate and dedicated team coordinating this unique and ground-breaking scheme.

The Engagement and Wellbeing Worker will be:

• Experienced at working with care experienced young people and adults.
• Able to use Microsoft packages and other data systems.
• An excellent communicator.
• Able to evidence excellent customer service skills.
• Able to prioritise and work to deadlines.
• A capable team member who can also use their own initiative.
• Capable of prioritising and organising their their own workload.
• Prepared to work occasional weekends and evenings.
• Willing to travel for occasional face to face meetings and some overnight events

We particularly welcome applications from care experienced people.  Full details are provided in the Job Description and Person Specification.

TACT offers an excellent benefits package to all employees including:

• 31 days paid holiday plus bank holidays.
• Flexible working arrangements (including compressed hours, flexibility around core hours, volunteer days policy).
• Family friendly policies.
• Homeworking ‘bundle’ including annual allowance of £750, IT equipment and a loan for home office set up.
• Stakeholder pension scheme (salary sacrifice) and life insurance from day one.
• Employee Assistance Programme (including free CBT counselling, remote GP appointments, physiotherapy, mental health support and second opinions).
• Fantastic learning and development opportunities.

Please see the job information pack for further information.

Closing date: Midnight on 28th September 2022
Interviews:  Friday 7th October 2022 (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.

Full details and application documents here