Fostering Participation Officer

4 weeks ago


Oldbury, Sandwell, United Kingdom Active Care Solutions Full time
About the Role

As a Participation Officer – Fostering at Active Care Solutions, you will play a vital role in promoting our 'Stronger Futures' initiative and engaging our young people in year and above to undertake life skill opportunities. You will create training materials to support the delivery of our AQA programme and provide direct support to our team.

About You

We are looking for a passionate and experienced individual who can work and travel across the West Midlands region. You will have a strong understanding of the challenges faced by the children and young people in our care and be able to remain calm under high pressure. You will also have intermediate IT skills and a full driving licence.

Key Responsibilities

- Promote our 'Stronger Futures' initiative and engage our young people in year and above to undertake life skill opportunities
- Create training materials to support the delivery of our AQA programme
- Provide direct support to our team
- Support with the delivery of our Duke of Edinburgh awards programme
- Arrange 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
- Attend meetings with professionals from Education, Health and Social Services sectors to support our Children and Young People's care plans
- Assess, review and report writing, and maintaining clear records
- Stay up to date with professional practice standards, legislation and company policy including confidentiality, GDPR, safeguarding, equality, diversity and inclusion

What We Offer

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.

About Us

We're 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. Our focus is on 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. No other independent fostering organisation offers this specialist service, and nobody does it so well. In our most recent inspection, OFSTED rated us as 'Outstanding' in every area of our work

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