Professional Practitioner - Family Intervention Fostering

Somerset Council; Yeovil; Hybrid; GBP 37,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

A local government organization in Yeovil seeks a dedicated professional to support children and young people in fostering situations. You will ensure effective interventions, build lasting relationships, and supervise a team for out of hours support. The role promotes flexible working arrangements and offers 30 days of annual leave plus benefits. The salary ranges from £37,280 to £41,771 per annum.

Benefits

Generous annual leave

Flexible working arrangements

Employee Assistance

Staff discounts

Pension Scheme

Flexible Benefits Scheme

Qualifications

• Proven track record in making professional assessments of children and families.
• Ability to reflect and think creatively to build effective relationships.

Responsibilities

• Ensure intervention with children and young people is supportive and effective.
• Build relationships based on trust and respect.
• Support fostering families to help children reach their potential.
• Act as a supervisor for the out of hours intervention team.

Skills

Resilience

Engagement

Creativity in relationship building

Confidence

Ability to work with complex needs

Job description

We're proud to be here for the people of Somerset. And that means everyone in Somerset. An important part of this is ensuring that we are as diverse and inclusive as the people and communities we serve. We offer ongoing support, training and guidance to help you be the best you can be but it will really help if you have a proven track record in using appropriate techniques and best practice to make ongoing holistic, professional assessments of allocated children, young people, and their families/carers to reflect individual circumstances.

Additionally, you'll be able to reflect and think creatively about how you can build relationships to make a difference to the children and foster carers that you work with. You'll be robust, confident, and resilient in your approach and be able to engage with carers and families many who will have complex needs. You will need to be able and willing to travel countywide, including travel outside standard work hours and to areas that are not currently serviced by public transport.

Responsibilities

• A resilient, engaging, and supportive to ensure that intervention with children and young people is as supportive and effective as possible.
• Passionate about working with children and young people and be able to quickly build up effective relationships based on trust and respect.
• Passionate about the work you do and proud of your profession.
• You will be part of a strong and ambitious Children's social care team, where the goal is to support fostering families to ensure children have the best opportunities to grow and develop their potential and remain within their fostering home.
• Using a strengths‑based approach, our workers get alongside fostering families to help them identify what they want to change and why, and then build sustainable family plans for change.
• Support families along the journey of change and are there to help them celebrate their successes.
• Act as a supervisory role for our out of hours and weekend Fostering Intervention Team, covering shifts between 7 am and 11 pm daily, including weekends, on a rota.

Benefits

• The opportunity to work flexibly in line with the demands of the role, working from home and your contracted work base.
• 30 days annual leave, plus bank holidays.
• Permanent for 37 hours per week.
• Office base could be in Bridgwater, Shepton Mallet, Taunton or Yeovil.
• We promote a healthy work‑life balance and offer flexible working arrangements wherever possible, including working from home.
• Generous annual leave allowance, with the opportunity to purchase additional leave.
• Staff discounts in gyms.
• Employee Assistance for the times you may need support and a variety of employee wellbeing services.
• Auto enrolment onto our generous Pension Scheme and optional pension enhancement through our Additional Voluntary Contribution scheme.
• A Flexible Benefits Scheme via salary sacrifice to obtain a cycle for work and health screenings.
• My Staff Shop offering discounts in shops, online shopping, restaurants, cinema tickets, insurance benefits and more.
• The salary range for this role is £37,280 to £41,771 per annum.