Fostering Practitioner

Full Time - 37 Hours per week

There has never been a more exciting time to join our service: alongside making a difference to the lives of individuals and families, we have adopted exciting new strengths-based approaches and are passionate about delivering continuous service improvement. We are delivering the Families First for Children programme and also the Kinship strategy to achieve the best outcomes for the children and families that we work with.

In this role, you will be part of our innovative and forward thinking Fostering Service. We are an ambitious and aspirational service. We are looking for Fostering Practitioners who have experience of working with adults and children with an understanding of Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy and PACE and who share our vision about providing an outstanding level of support to all our foster carers.

The successful applicant will be responsible for supporting our fostering households to ensure stability for our children through targeted support with therapeutic parenting being a central model to ensure positive outcomes for our children and foster carers.

The Fostering Practitioners will also be expected to deliver training and support to other services and applicants and carers, to develop more cohesive working, as well as being part of meetings and forums to raise to profile of Telford Fostering.

Our team is very experienced, highly supportive, friendly and passionate about what we do. We work hard but also find time to celebrate achievements and good practice. The Mainstream Fostering team work closely and cooperatively with colleagues within the Family & Friends support team as well as with Social Workers and managers from other Children's Services. The work is interesting, often complex and challenging but is crucial to achieving placement stability and permanence for our children.

The fostering service has a systemic practice approach, supporting our foster carers to parent therapeutically.

Our brilliant practitioners are at the heart of our ambitious approach to improve outcomes for children and families in Telford and Wrekin: that's why from tailored in-house training to the West Midlands Teaching Partnership, we will ensure that you have access to the best development opportunities.

• Free on-site parking
• Essential car user allowance
• Flexible and mobile working policy - we are well adapted to a hybrid model of working which includes a combination of time spent in the office and at home - our approach is to promote greater level of flexible working around personal and family commitments

• We offer competitive salaries and a fantastic leave package - starting at24 days, rising to32 dayswith service, plus8 bank holidays and anextra concessionary dayto enjoy.
• Flexible working & career progression
• Local Government Pension Scheme
• Staff discounts & salary sacrifice perks
• Free parking & confidential wellbeing support
• Hybrid working model - whether you're in the office or working from home, we support a balance that fits your personal and family commitments.

Find out further information about working at Telford & Wrekin Council including our full list of benefits.

Roles involving children or vulnerable adults will require a criminal records check. It's an offence to apply if you're barred from working with these groups.

Please note:

We do not hold a sponsorship licence for visas.

We are committed to equality and diversity. Posts working with children or vulnerable groups will be subject to an appropriate criminal records check.

If you share our passion for making a difference, we would be delighted if you joined us.

If you think you can meet the challenge and would like to find out more about this role, please contact us by emailing or alternatively contact the Fostering Team Manager, Daniel Chell via Email

If you are interested in applying, we recommend that you apply as soon as possible as we may close the vacancy early if suitable candidates are appointed. For more information about working for Telford & Wrekin Social Care, please view our recruitment page:

Please click on the links below to view the job description and person specification.

A CV template is available if you do not already have a CV.

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everyone belongs
, and every voice matters
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