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Independent Form F Assessor

Job Title: Independent form f assessor

Hours of Work: To meet the needs of the assessment timescale

Temporary/Permanent: Self Employed

Salary: £1,800 per completed Form F Assessment

Responsible to: Team Manager/Registered Manager

 

Appointment to this post is subject to Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks;  paid for by Family Fostercare.

 

PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES OF THE JOB:

To work flexibly under the direction of the Team/Registered Manager in facilitating the completion of a full Form F Assessment and to ensure that this is undertaken with appropriate regard to National Minimum Standards for Fostering, Fostering Regulations 2011, and any other relevant legislation.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • To work in accordance with the company’s policy relating to the promotion of equality and diversity.
  • The post holder is responsible for the health, safety and welfare of him/herself and others in accordance with the company’s policy and the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974.
  • To respect confidentiality and to comply with Family Fostercares Data Protection Policy in keeping all information relating to the assessment secure. Any hard copies of documents/handwritten notes must be stored in a lockable place throughout the assessment.

MAIN DUTIES:

  1. To be responsible for the completion of a full Form F competency assessment on prospective carers to the agreed standards set out in our policy and Assessor Handbook, and the presentation of the completed Form F at Family Fostercare’s Fostering Panel.
  2. Set up home study appointments and visit according to company timescales. The first visit to be undertaken within 10 days of receipt of the completed application pack.
  3. Carry out any interviews, via telephone and/or face-to-face, with ex-partners, adult children and referees where applicable to the assessment.
  4. Should the assessment require it, you will need to conduct a file check, in person, at any previous fostering service where they have been approved.
  5. Work with the Fostering Administrator to establish, investigate and monitor the completed statutory checks required to support the assessment.
  6. Support the applicants in starting their Training, Support & Development Standards (TSD) portfolio which will need to be submitted with the Form F.
  7. Provide Family Fostercare with an evidence log of your visits, the recording of each area covered, together with a log of all other contacts (telephone, letter, etc) made in connection with the assessment.
  8. Conduct a full Health & Safety report of the household being used to foster and ensure that all relevant paperwork, such as electrical/gas certificates, insurances etc have been verified and submitted.
  9. Perform a critical evaluation of the applicant/s’ strengths and weaknesses, both individual and as a couple (where applicable) in terms of their parenting capacity and a wider understanding of the fostering task.
  10. To report any concerns, you may have throughout the assessment, immediately to the Team Manager.
  11. To attend regular supervisions with the Team Manager throughout the assessment.
  12. Prepare and discuss the Panel process with the applicant/s and ensure their attendance if confirmed.
  13. Meet deadlines given from Family Fostercare in relation to submitting the Form F documents. Such deadlines will be discussed at the beginning of the assessment and monitored during supervisions. This will normally be 4 months from allocation.
  14. Attend Family FosterCare’s Panel, along with the applicant/s, to present your Form F assessment to all Panel Members.
  15. Should an assessment be closed during Stage 2 of the process a report will need to be drafted and presented to Family Fostercare’s Panel. It will then be the decision of Panel whether the assessment should cease or continue.
  16. Ensure that once the assessment has been completed and heard at Panel, all digital and hard copies of documents relating to that assessment are given to Family Fostercare.

Please download full job specification here.

How Do I Apply?

If you’d like to apply to become a Form F Assessor with us, please email Donna Turner This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call 07958085309

Family Support Worker - Yorkshire

Family Fostercare is currently recruiting for sessional Family Support Workers with our agency based in the Yorkshire region. There is one permanent ten-hour post and additionally we are wanting to grow a bank of ‘as and when’ sessional support workers.

We are a small agency with our office base in Doncaster, however there would be an expectation to travel across the wider Yorkshire region, so we would welcome applications if you live in Beverley/ Hull/ Wakefield / Doncaster / Rotherham areas.

The main duties of the role will include task centred pieces of work with children and young people aged 0 -18 years, support to foster carers in carrying out their fostering task and responsibilities towards looked after children and young people.

Main Duties will include:

  • • Supporting children and young people in foster placements as directed by the supervising social worker and manager.
  • • Supervising contact of looked after children where required
  • • Arranging and coordinating social events and activities with the looked after child and/or the fostering household
  • •Organise and run focus groups with children and young people
  • • As required attend meetings to support foster carers, social workers, children and other agencies
  • • Any other supportive tasks as requested by the fostering regional manager, the senior supervising social worker, or the supervising social worker. e.g health and safety checks at fostering households.

For further information, please contact Belinda Cashman, Registered Manager or Nicole Wayman, Senior Supervising Social Worker on 01302 910215.

Applications will close on the 13th May 2019.

Family Support Worker - Yorkshire

Family Fostercare is currently recruiting for sessional Family Support Workers with our agency based in the Yorkshire region. There is one permanent ten-hour post and additionally we are wanting to grow a bank of ‘as and when’ sessional support workers.

We are a small agency with our office base in Doncaster, however there would be an expectation to travel across the wider Yorkshire region, so we would welcome applications if you live in Beverley/ Hull/ Wakefield / Doncaster / Rotherham areas.

The main duties of the role will include task centred pieces of work with children and young people aged 0 -18 years, support to foster carers in carrying out their fostering task and responsibilities towards looked after children and young people.

Main Duties will include:

  • • Supporting children and young people in foster placements as directed by the supervising social worker and manager.
  • • Supervising contact of looked after children where required
  • • Arranging and coordinating social events and activities with the looked after child and/or the fostering household
  • •Organise and run focus groups with children and young people
  • • As required attend meetings to support foster carers, social workers, children and other agencies
  • • Any other supportive tasks as requested by the fostering regional manager, the senior supervising social worker, or the supervising social worker. e.g health and safety checks at fostering households.

For further information, please contact Belinda Cashman, Registered Manager or Nicole Wayman, Senior Supervising Social Worker on 01302 910215.

Applications will close on the 13th May 2019.

Family Support Worker - Yorkshire

Family Fostercare is currently recruiting for sessional Family Support Workers with our agency based in the Yorkshire region. There is one permanent ten-hour post and additionally we are wanting to grow a bank of ‘as and when’ sessional support workers.

We are a small agency with our office base in Doncaster, however there would be an expectation to travel across the wider Yorkshire region, so we would welcome applications if you live in Beverley/ Hull/ Wakefield / Doncaster / Rotherham areas.

The main duties of the role will include task centred pieces of work with children and young people aged 0 -18 years, support to foster carers in carrying out their fostering task and responsibilities towards looked after children and young people.

Main Duties will include:

  • • Supporting children and young people in foster placements as directed by the supervising social worker and manager.
  • • Supervising contact of looked after children where required
  • • Arranging and coordinating social events and activities with the looked after child and/or the fostering household
  • •Organise and run focus groups with children and young people
  • • As required attend meetings to support foster carers, social workers, children and other agencies
  • • Any other supportive tasks as requested by the fostering regional manager, the senior supervising social worker, or the supervising social worker. e.g health and safety checks at fostering households.

For further information, please contact Belinda Cashman, Registered Manager or Nicole Wayman, Senior Supervising Social Worker on 01302 910215.

Applications will close on the 13th May 2019.

New Year, New Hope

 

new-hopeThe New Year is a time for fresh starts. We collectively reflect on our potential – to be fitter, healthier, tidier, more organised, more thoughtful, more impactful. It is certainly a time when hope for realising our potential is renewed.

In some respects the start of the New Year is like the start of a fostering placement. When a looked-after child becomes part of a caring foster family those foster carers are giving the child a chance for a fresh start. Although it’s an incredibly difficult time for a child, in time when they come to trust that they are living with people who care, people who will recognise and nurture their potential, that child’s hope for their future is renewed.

It can often seem like we don’t have the opportunity to make a big difference in this world, or that it takes grand gestures or a making a brave stand to change the lives of many. But as a foster carer you can make life changing differences to scores of children. When you foster a child you are the one who gives them a fresh start. You are the one that helps and inspires them to realise their potential. You teach them how to trust again. You give them fresh hope. You put them on the path to a better future. Fostering is the biggest positive difference you can make to the lives of many (and all from the comfort of your own home!)

If your New Year’s Resolution for 2015 is to make a difference then please - make this the year to find out more about becoming a foster carer.

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