Participation Officer

3 weeks ago

OldburyonSevern, South Gloucestershire, United Kingdom Active Care Solutions Full time
Job Title: Participation Officer – Fostering

About Us

Active Care Solutions is a high-quality fostering organisation recognised as 'Outstanding' by OFSTED, and one of the UK's only independent fostering agency specialising in cultural and faith-based fostering placements.

We're dedicated to helping children and young people with specific religious or cultural needs find foster parents who share their values and identity and can provide a safe and loving home.

Role Responsibilities

  • Promote our 'Stronger Futures' initiative and engage our young people in year and above to undertake the many life skill opportunities on offer to them
  • Create training materials to support and delivery of our AQA programme
  • Direct - support
  • Support with the delivery of our Duke of Edinburgh awards programme
  • Arranging activities, days out and workshops for our looked after and birth children
  • Forge close and productive working relationships with colleagues, Foster Parents, external professionals and multi-agency networks
  • Attendance at meetings with professionals from Education, Health and Social Services sectors to support our Children and Young People's care plans
  • Assessment, review and report writing, and maintaining clear records
  • Be aware of, and take responsibility for staying up to date with professional practice standards, legislation and company policy including confidentiality, GDPR, safeguarding, equality, diversity and inclusion
  • Support ACS staff with placements/education inputting key data information.

About You

  • A passion for and experience of supporting children and young people to reach their full potential
  • An understanding of the challenges faced by the children and young people in our care
  • Ability to work and travel across the West Midlands region
  • Desire to implement and drive new ideas and initiatives that will support and compliment the services that we offer
  • Have professional childcare experience, preferably with Fostering or Fostering sector experience or the ability to demonstrate significant Fostering knowledge and interest
  • Ideally possess a relevant qualification or evidence of formal training in childcare, childhood studies, education, social work, youth work, community work and/or psychology
  • Can demonstrate previous experience of building strong rapports with adults and children with an array of different needs and expectations
  • Able to remain calm when under high levels of pressure, emotionally traumatic situations and when dealing with difficult or confrontational behaviour
  • Intermediate IT skills to include Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint) and databases
  • Have a full driving licence

We are a family of independent fostering agencies, all with our own individual areas of expertise, but with one shared vision. We want to give children across the country who have had a difficult start in life, the support they need to build themselves a stronger and happier future. For our Foster Parents, we provide a close network of support that becomes like a second family.

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