Fair Ways: Fostering Support Worker

Contract Type: Part time
Specific

Hours:

22.5 HPW

Fair Ways Fostering Team are looking for a motivated, caring and passionate individual to support our amazing young people and their foster carers. The role provides a great opportunity for applicants to work as part of an outstanding team, supporting vulnerable young people with complex needs to achieve fantastic outcomes. You will develop positive relationships with our young people whilst supporting with fun and engaging activities, creating opportunities and experiences for them to thrive.

• Having fun and making memories! - Providing daytime and evening respite to Foster Carers by taking the child/young person into the community for 1:1 support sessions.
• Planning exciting and appropriate activities – Planning sessions engaging with the young person’s interests. These could be a wide range of things - football in the park, exploring nature, cinema visits, climbing sessions, library visits etc
• Documenting and recording findings – You will be asked to attend meetings to provide updates around your engagement with the children and young people evidencing positive, well boundaried relationships.
• Keeping Young People Safe - Using your clear understanding of safeguarding (full training provided by our incredible inhouse training team), you will know when and how to intervene and work in a way that prioritises the needs of children.
• Providing respite for our fantastic foster carers – You will collect children from carers homes and in some cases from school and undertake fun and engaging activites.
• Feeling truly secure and supported in your role - All staff will be supported by an amazing team and provided an information sheet and risk assessment specific to the child/young person before any shift.
• Being a Trauma Informed professional - To provide trauma informed responses through the individualised use of therapeutic and, where appropriate, physical intervention to ensure our young people are supported appropriately during times of crisis.