Job Details

Job description

• Provide monthly supervision visits to foster carers, including regular telephone support and occasional unannounced visits, all of which are to be recorded.
• Facilitate skills to foster training for prospective applicants and post-approval training.
• Undertake competency-based Form F assessments of prospective foster carers
• Undertake respite care assessments in accordance with Schedule 3 reports and present these to panel.
• Facilitate monthly carers support groups as required.
• Contribute to the annual review process of foster carers suitability.
• Involvement in the recruitment of carers through publicity, information events and initial visits.
• Source suitable placements for foster carers by ensuring that each child or young person placed is carefully matched with carers capable of meeting their demands.
• Obtain all pertinent LAC documentation, core assessments from Local Authorities and or related agencies.
• Ensure compliance with child protection procedures.
• Ensure that the protection of children and safeguarding their welfare is given priority in all activities and that serious incidents, allegations and complaints are recorded and acted upon appropriately in line with Agency procedures.
• Develop and maintain links with Local Authority staff to ensure the child’s care plan is promoted.
• Prepare reports for and attend children’s reviews, case conferences,
• Professionals meetings, court proceedings and other meetings as required.
• Support foster carers in preparing children and young people for independent or semi-independent living.
• Undertake evening visits and weekend work as and when required.
• This is a hybrid working role where you will be based partly from our offices in Wolverhampton, attending visits across the region and working from home.

Who is Progress?

We are an established provider of specialist services for children and young adults from 0-25, who have disabilities and specialist needs, including profound and multiple learning difficulties, severe learning difficulties, physical disability, sensory impairment, complex health care needs, acquired brain injury, and Autism. This encompasses a fostering agency, residential homes, supported living, a range of short break solutions, home and community support, preparation for independence and much more. As a values-led, family-owned business, we are not prepared to compromise on the quality and safety of our services, which are delivered following our owner’s ethos; ‘if it is not good enough for your own family, it is not good enough for our customers’..

We pride ourselves on enabling a more ordinary life to be experienced through extra-ordinary service delivery, with the people we support being the heart of everything we do. Everyone deserves a childhood and to move on into independence – this takes innovation every day as one size does not fit all where people are concerned!

Why work for Progress?

We asked some of our staff this question and the words they used in response included… friendly, further your career, support, extensive training, like a family, accepted, good team relationships, accommodating, flexibility, work ethic with colleagues, caring, shared passion, values aligned to your own, passion, not just a job; a career, gained skills, personal progression, support for staff; not just the people we care for, be part of a journey and the growth of the organisation, family feel, personal growth, opportunities, acknowledgement and recognition of efforts, not just a number, make a difference, feel appreciated, properly appraised annually with resulting outcomes, thorough induction, personal approach, no hierarchy, delivering on promises, high staff retention, respected as equals.

Even our temp had a positive opinion, “a great supportive team, allowing you to work flexibly with great opportunities to develop and apply your skills to assist across the business”.

We are passionate about developing our staff and their individual careers. We take pride in developing our future managers, with the capability, vision, and ability to meet the changing needs of the sector in a creative and responsive manner. We secured the Gold Investors in People Award, with 84% of staff agreeing we are ‘developing great leaders.’

We are proud of our teams; they really go the extra mile. We are also proud of our consistently high staff retention; we could not deliver the excellence we strive for, without every individual. We care deeply about delivering on our promises and feel extremely privileged to employ so many amazing people who share our vision and our determination! What more could we want!