Trauma-Informed Fostering Support Specialist

Working for Essex

Colchester

On-site

GBP 33,000 - 38,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

Essex County Council is seeking an Intensive Fostering Support Practitioner in Colchester on a permanent, full-time basis. Salary ranges from £33,049 to £37,698 per annum. The role involves supporting foster carers and Looked After Children, with some evenings and weekends and travel across a wider area.

Closing date 7 October 2026. Visa sponsorship is not available. Interviews in Chelmsford, County Hall. Read more at Children & Families.

Qualifications

Educated to NVQ level 3 or equivalent by experience.
Experience in working creatively with in various ways young people including young parents.
Be able to work as part of a team and be flexible with an ability to work some evenings and weekends.
Familiarity with the principles of the Children’s Act 1989 and the Children Leaving Care Act 2000 and Children and Social Work Act 2018 and familiar with Fostering regulations.

Responsibilities

To give practical, personal, and emotional support to young people in order to meet assessed needs; to maintain and promote their health, physical, emotional development, and well-being.
To facilitate, directly and indirectly the assessment of need, engaging with the ongoing monitoring and reassessment of need, engaging with the ongoing monitoring and reassessment of need over time.
To enable and empower young people to make decisions in their lives and to self-advocate and to advocate on behalf of young people who do not have the skills to do this.
To work alongside colleagues both within SocialCare and from other agencies, in a variety of ways, undertaking direct work with young people and to engage with significant people in the young person’s life (members of the family, community etc).