Family Support Worker

Family Support Worker (Northeast)

Hybrid Working

We offer a blend of home and office-based working arrangements, to support a healthy work-life balance for all our staff. This will be a minimum of one day per week working based either at our North Tyneside or Middlesbrough office.

Hours: 37.5 hours per week covering Monday to Sunday

Salary: £30,503.16 – £34,655.00

Permanent

Team Fostering is an ethical not for profit fostering agency with a strong reputation and track record for providing high quality Foster Care for children in care. We pride ourselves on our values and we expect our staff to commit to and demonstrate these values in their everyday work.

Team Fostering is committed to putting children’s futures first, we continue to strengthen the support we offer to children and young people living with our fostering families. As part of this ongoing commitment, we welcome applications from skilled professionals with experience of working alongside children, and young people who can provide practical, consistent, and relationship-based support.

The focus of the role is to provide appropriate advice, support, and guidance to foster carers, enabling them to continue providing care, stability, and positive outcomes for the children and young people in their care

The successful applicant will have:

• Experience of working with children and young people
• An understanding of the challenges that children and young people face and the barriers to success
• Strong advocacy skills
• An ability to relate well to children and young people and to use a variety of strategies to engage them and help overcome disaffection and low self esteem
• The ability to use initiative successfully within a team and when working alone
• Strong mediation skills
• an understanding of safeguarding issues
• A can-do attitude and a willingness to learn

PLEASE NOTE in order to fulfil the travel requirements of the post, we can only consider applications from individuals who hold a valid driving licence and have access to a car. 

In return we offer an exceptional range of employee benefits including:

• Monthly supervision
• Annual appraisal
• 30 days annual leave plus 8 days bank holidays
• A blend of home and office working
• A wide range of flexible working arrangements to support a good work life balance
• Flexi time
• Company sick pay scheme
• Pension scheme
• Staff loyalty bonus
• Employee assistance programme
• Retail discount scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Life assurance cover
• GP Helpline
• Learning & development opportunities to support your continuous professional development

Team Fostering is an equal opportunity and Disability Confident Committed employer that is committed to equality, diversity, inclusion and belonging at work. As we continue to grow, we know that we must have the most talented employees with diverse backgrounds, cultures, perspectives, and experiences to support our children and young people.

Team Fostering strives to be diverse and inclusive – a place where we can all be ourselves.   We particularly encourage applications from people who identify as Black, Asian or from a Minority Ethnic background, who are underrepresented within the agency.

For an informal chat about the post please contact Natalie Wright (Team Manager, Middlesbrough) or Tracey Bulley (Team Manager, North Shields) on 07717 762126 on 07900 582684

To apply, please complete and Application form and Equal Opportunities Monitoring form which can be downloaded below.

Please note Team Fostering does not accept CVs. This post is subject to an Enhanced DBS Disclosure

Closing date:             Sunday 21^st June 2026

Shortlisting:              Tuesday 23^rd June 2026

Interviews:                 Monday 29^th June 2026

Location:                    Hedley Court, North Shields

Please note: Shortlisted candidates will be contacted via the email address provided in their application.

Please note: we do not operate a performance related reward system or automatic incremental payments

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