Fostering Support Worker - Eastern Region Peterborough

St Chris; Peterborough; Remote; GBP 12,000 - 17,000; Part time

Job summary

St Christopher's is seeking a Fostering Support Worker (Bank) to join our team in the Peterborough area. The role works with supervising social workers, local authorities and other professionals to support foster placements, including planning activities and running support sessions.

The post is part-time (15 hours) with day, evening, and weekend flexibility. Applicants should have experience with children and young people, strong boundaries, and good communication and administrative skills.

Qualifications

• Experience of working with children and young people in a paid or voluntary capacity.
• Experience of administrative work including data entry and report writing.
• Ability to work with challenging behaviour and resolve conflict.
• Ability to maintain personal and professional boundaries.
• Good communication and administrative skills and the ability to build and sustain sound professional relationships.

Responsibilities

• Planning and implementing appropriate activities to meet the individual needs of looked after children.
• Running support groups, both for looked after children and birth children.
• Providing support sessions during the day, evenings or weekends.
• Transporting young people to activities and appointments and supervising family contact sessions.
• Appropriate training will be provided to assist in this role.

Skills

Experience with children and young peo

Communication skills

Administrative skills

Ability to work with challenging behav

Boundary maintenance

Job description

Fostering Support Worker Part-time - Eastern Region Peterborough

Permanent Part - time 15 Hours

Peterborough and surrounding area

About Us

Our vision is for every child and young person to be safe, loved and happy, to achieve their potential and have a bright future.

St Christopher's is a leading charity for children and young people. We are proud of our history of providing fostering, children's homes and innovative leaving care services across the UK. We have a passionate commitment to our young people, placing them at the centre of everything we do. We provide positive life experiences for young people who are unable to sustain a placement in their parental or foster home.

We are an equal-opportunity employer keen to develop an inclusive workforce where people feel they belong. We hope to attract applications from under- represented groups, including people from different cultures, nationalities, socioeconomic backgrounds, ages, disabilities, religions, faith, sex, orientation, childcare responsibilities, and gender-diverse identities.

About the Role

We are looking to recruit a Fostering Support Worker (Bank) working closely with the supervising social workers, local authorities and other professionals to support foster placements.

The role will involve:

• Planning and implementing appropriate activities to meet the individual needs of looked after children
• Running support groups, both for looked after children and birth children
• Providing support sessions during the day, evenings or weekends
• Transporting young people to activities and appointments and supervising family contact sessions
• Appropriate training will be provided to assist in this role.

Applicants should have

• Experience of working with children and young people in a paid or voluntary capacity
• Experience of administrative work including data entry and report writing
• Ability to work with challenging behaviour and resolve conflict
• Ability to maintain personal and professional boundaries
• Good communication and administrative skills and the ability to build and sustain sound professional relationships

Recruitment Process

It is against the law to apply for work with Children/Young People if you are barred from working in Regulated Activity and if your name is added to a Children Barred List.

All shortlisted candidates invited to interview will be asked to submit a Self-Declaration and Disclosure form which will need to be returned prior to an interview being booked.

Please note this post has a minimum age restriction of 21 for roles working directly with children and young people in line with the Equality Act 'occupational requirement'.