Independent Assessor

4 weeks ago


Somerset, United Kingdom Homes and Horizons Full time

**Independent Assessor - Fostering**

**£2,000 per assessment, plus mileage**

**Casual, zero hours contract**

**Based in Somerset**

**Job Ref: 25223**

We believe every child and young person has the right to a safe place to live where they are listened to, cared for and understood. Do you?

If the answer’s yes, then your next career step could be working for us. We are looking for Independent Assessors to join us in our newly developed fostering service, in partnership between Homes2Inspire, Somerset NHS Foundation Trust and Somerset CountyCouncil.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our high needs fostering service, who will recruit and support fostering households to provide long term homes for children whose needs can be?met in a highly skilled and supported foster service. This may be childrenready to move from residential homes or as an?alternative to prevent a child going into residential care.

The role offers lots of scope for development and progression for the right person within this innovative and forward-thinking service.

**What we’ll offer you**
- The opportunity to shape and develop a new and unique service within Somerset
- An award-winning employee wellbeing support package from an employer with an over 80% employee engagement rating
- A salary of £2,000 per assessment, plus mileage.
- A three-week comprehensive induction package to make you feel at home with our way of working and expectations
- Consultation and development opportunities to enable you to work confidently to support children and young people’s emotional and mental health.
- Opportunities to shadow and spend time with colleagues from across the partnership organisations to understand each other’s roles and share your knowledge and skills.
- Professional development training to progress internally into roles with Homes2Inspire, a national top ten residential children’s home provider, Somerset County Council or Somerset NHS Foundation Trust?

**What you’ll bring**
- An enthusiasm for working in an exciting new partnership program and as part of one of the UK’s largest charities, Shaw Trust
- Qualified Social Worker and registered with Social Work England
- Proven experience working with children in care and fostering services
- A full UK driving license
- An enhanced DBS will be required (funded by Homes and Horizons)

**About the partnership**

Homes2inspire Limited, Somerset NHS Foundation Trust and Somerset County Council have formed a unique partnership to offer homes and support for children and young people within Somerset who have experienced significant trauma and difficulties in their lives.We are creating a different sort of home and care for children and young people which offers them flexibility and support from a full range of people that can help them. This high needs fostering service is part of a wider service we are developing togetherincluding, children’s homes, CAMHS (Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services) intensive treatment houses and therapeutic education. Homes2inspire is a leading provider of Children’s Homes with 30 homes across the UK. Our teams strive for excellence for ourchildren.?

The partnership is also able to offer wider support and clinical supervision with mental health and social work practitioners. Working as part of a diverse multi-disciplinary professional team offers you the opportunity to share and develop best practice.Being part of this wider team within the partnership will enable you to be part of a different way of making inspirational futures for children and young people.?

**Closing date: 8 January 2023.**

**Due to our partnership with Somerset County Council, please be aware that personal information given by applicants may be shared with Somerset County Council at any stage of the recruitment process.**

Homes2Inspire Ltd are proud to be a part of Shaw Trust Group, a charity helping to transform the lives of young people and adults across the UK and internationally.


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