Barnardo's North West Fostering Service is part of a leading national independent fostering agency, providing fostering and short break services.
At Barnardo's, our purpose is to transform the lives of the UK's most vulnerable children and our vision is to realise Thomas Barnardo's dream of a world where no child is turned away from the help that they need.
Barnardo's North West Fostering Service aims to achieve high quality, stable placements for children and young people by ensuring that foster carers are appropriately recruited, assessed, trained and well supported within the required regulations and national minimum standards.
Position Overview
We are looking to recruit a Project Worker with the necessary drive, enthusiasm, ambition and commitment to complement our already well-established team. The successful candidate will need to share and promote our ethos and values and demonstrate a passion for promoting good outcomes for our children and high quality support to our foster carers.
Key Responsibilities
1. Work with children, young people and their families, on a one to one or group basis, using a variety of interventions to identify needs and achieve positive outcomes.
2. Work in partnership with carers to empower them and enable them to achieve better outcomes for their children.
3. Collaborate with children's services, health agencies and other community-based services to provide the most effective service for children, young people, and families.
4. Apply safeguarding and child protection procedures in all aspects of your role.
Fostering Provision
Barnardo's North West Fostering provides a variety of fostering provision including short-term emergency placements, short and long-term/permanency, Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children & Staying Put Arrangements.
Working Conditions
This is a home working position with the requirement to travel throughout the North West area. The office base for the Service is in Liverpool. The successful candidate will be required to participate in team meetings & staff development days.
Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible.
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