Our Current Job Opportunities

Apply directly via the links attached to each job or email recruitment@cfscare.co.uk with your application CV and Job Reference ID.

Therapeutic Fostering Support Worker

CFS Care Fostering are seeking enthusiastic, reliable, and highly motivated therapeutic family support workers to support our fostering families.  

The support worker must be flexible able and willing to travel to our carers across the North West to offer support our foster families. (Specifically Wirral/ Liverpool area).

Successful candidates will be provided with full therapeutic training to enable them to offer support, guidance to foster carers caring for children from 0-18 years. The successful candidate will be part of a therapeutic team consisting of social workers and therapists to ensure fostering households are offered high quality therapeutic support.  

What our lovely Therapeutic Support Worker, Laura, says about the role:

“The satisfaction when you have worked with a child for a while and you can see the change in them and the affect your hard work is having on their behaviours, confidence and personality is like nothing else.”

Click HERE to find out more and join our CFS Care family! 

Support Worker Leaving Care – Oldham

Salary: £12 PH
Shifts: 24 hr, 7 shifts per month (basic fulltime contract)
Shifts are not waking nights; you will be paid your full rate per hour for your sleep
Shifts are 24 hours based on a rolling rota of 1 on 3 off, 10:00 – 10:00.
Overtime available

Role Overview

• Be part of a multi-agency team of professionals
• Lone working with the service user
• Sleep in shifts
• Promoting, supporting and empowering young people to engage in education, training or employment
• Developing life skills for example, meal preparation, house cleaning, washing, what to do in emergency situations, financial planning
• Support, empower and enable the young people to understand life post 18 and make positive choices for their future independence

About you

Do you have a can-do attitude, are you passionate and resilient and committed to supporting young people to ensure positive outcomes.
You will need to be adaptable, flexible, and work as part of a team to ensure that our values are delivered.

Must Haves:

• Calm under pressure
• Computer literate
• Ability to prioritise
• Assertive decision making
• Resilience
• Crisis management
• Outstanding interpersonal skills
• Engaging
• Motivating

“Click HERE to find out more and join our CFS Care family! 

Team Leader Support Worker Leaving Care-  Oldham

Salary: £27,000 per year
Shifts: 24 hr, 6 shifts per month (basic fulltime contract), plus 6 hrs floating each week for team lead duties
Shifts are not waking nights
Shifts are 24 hours based on a rolling rota of 1 on 3 off, 10:00 – 10:00.
Overtime available

Role Overview

• Be part of a multi-agency team of professionals
• Lone working with the service user
• Sleep in shifts
• Promoting, supporting and empowering young people to engage in education, training or employment
• Developing life skills for example, meal preparation, house cleaning, washing, what to do in emergency situations, financial planning
• Support, empower and enable the young people to understand life post 18 and make positive choices for their future independence
• On-call rota
• Complete supervision with the team
• Manage the staff rota for the service
• Quality assurance the service
• report to senior managers on daily operations
• Staff meetings
• Responsible for ensuring all paperwork completed to the required standards

About you

Do you have a can-do attitude, are you passionate and resilient and committed to supporting young people to ensure positive outcomes.
You will need to be adaptable, flexible, and work as part of a team to ensure that our values are delivered.

Must Haves:

• Calm under pressure
• Computer literate
• Ability to prioritise
• Assertive decision making
• Resilience
• Crisis management
• Outstanding interpersonal skills
• Engaging
• Motivating
• leadership

Click HERE to find out more and join our CFS Care family! 

Supervising Social Worker- Manchester

Hours: Full Time 37.5 hours per week, Permanent contract

Salary: £35000 -£40,000

CFS Care is an organisation that supports children and young people in care and moving towards adulthood. We are currently looking for a supervising social worker to join our Ofsted graded “Good” Fostering Service.

CFS Care believe that we cannot effectively operate a person-centred organisation without extending our ethos and values to those who work for us. We pride ourselves in nurturing and growing our staff to achieve their personal and professional goals.

This is an exciting time to be joining CFS Care as we continue to grow our fostering service. You will need to be a passionate and enthusiastic qualified social worker with at least two years’ experience as a supervising social worker to be considered for this role. You will have experience of working with children and young people in care or within a safeguarding environment.

The key purpose of the supervising social worker is to support and guide a foster carer in every aspect of the fostering experience considering the legislative and regulatory framework and national minimum standards. You be involved in the recruitment, assessment, training and monitoring of carers and supporting them to care for the children in a safe, nurturing environment. You will play a crucial role as part of the team around the child.

This role is home based at this time, and you will be joining a small friendly team, part of the CFS Care Family.

Click HERE to find out more and join our CFS Care family!

Independent Form F Assessor

Here at the CFS Care Fostering we are recruiting a qualified Social Worker to carry out Foster Carers’ Form F assessments in the Northwest area.

 

The ideal candidate will be experienced in conducting Form F Assessments, self-motivated and share our ongoing commitment to providing excellence in the quality placements we provide for the children and young people in our care.

We offer competitive fees of £2000.00 per-assessment, plus, mileage.

Our independent Form F Assessors receive ongoing support, supervision, and opportunities for practice development.

To become a Form F Assessor, you’ll need:

• To be a qualified social worker
• At least three years’ post qualification experience of undertaking relevant assessment work, preferably fostering assessments.
• A good knowledge of the fostering regulations, childcare law and safeguarding issues is essential.
• You will be able to demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• You will need to be flexible and have the capability to use your initiative and work under pressure to ensure deadlines are met and to enable the smooth running of our agency.
• Be registered with Social Work England
• Have a current DBS or be willing to obtain one.
• Have relevant insurances.
• Have your own transport and be willing to travel to the applicant’s home.
• Attend virtual panel whilst with the applicants in their homes.
• You will be required to undertake statutory, and company checks as part of the recruitment process.

Benefits for working with CFS Care include:

• High level of support provided throughout the assessment.
• Effective supervision a minimum of 2 times during assessment
• Opportunity to undertake training with existing team.

Join us and become ‘part’ of a growing and developing Agency, who are proud of their standards and committed to providing quality foster homes for our children.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and we require all employees to share this commitment and undertake appropriate checks.

We are an Equal Opportunities Employer.

Click HERE to find out more and join our CFS Care family!

Residential Support Worker- Children’s Home

Salary : £25,000 a year (plus £55 sleep rate)

Location: Garswood

Role overview:

· Working with other professional

· Promoting, supporting, and empowering children and young people to engage in education, training, and employment.

· Embed a therapeutic environment

· Develop trusting relationships that promote growth, recovery and lasting change

About you

Do you have a can-do attitude, are you passionate and resilient and committed to supporting children and young people to ensure positive outcomes.

You will need to be adaptable, flexible, and work as part of a team to ensure that our values are delivered.

Must have:

· Ability to work with young people

· Excellent communication skill

· Flexible approach to work

· Be able to work on shift/rota basis

· Willingness to learn and develop

· Ability to positively engage with the young people

Benefits:

• Pension
• Life Assurance and Critical Illness plans
• Cash Medical plans
• DBS cost covered
• Full company induction including shadow working
• Training
• Refer a friend scheme
• Colleague recognition
• Store discounts through perks at work
• Career development opportunities

We welcome applications from all, irrespective of ‘race’, religion, sex, disability, marital status and age.

Experience:

• Residential Childcare: 1 year (preferred)
• Support Environment: 1 year (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

• NVQ Level 3 children and young people (preferred)
• Driving Licence (preferred)

Click HERE to find out more and join our CFS Care family!