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Become a Step Forward Foster Carer – A Life-Changing Opportunity for Early Years Managers in BarnsleyPlease Note: This role requires you to be Self EmployedAre you an Early Years Manager who is passionate about making a positive impact on vulnerable individuals? You already have the resilience, dedication, and commitment needed to make a profound difference in a young person’s life.We are looking for compassionate, strong-minded individuals like you to become Step Forward Foster Carers — offering a safe, nurturing home to a young person transitioning from residential care. This is a unique opportunity to take the skills you’ve developed in your role and make a lasting, personal impact. This could be your most rewarding role yet — offering not just care, but a future full of hope.What is Step Forward Fostering?Step Forward Fostering is a pioneering project that helps young people who have faced trauma, loss, and instability transition from residential care into a caring family environment. These young people aren’t just looking for a place to stay — they need someone like you: a supportive adult who understands their needs, builds trust, and provides the consistency they’ve often lacked. As a Step Forward Foster Carer, you’ll be part of a supportive team, working alongside professionals who are there to guide you every step of the way. You’ll never be alone on this journey.What You’ll Receive:We understand that caring for a young person with complex needs is a significant commitment. That’s why we provide comprehensive support — both emotionally and financially.Specialist Support:<ul>
<li>Your own Senior Practitioner offering regular guidance and supervision</li><li>A Family Wellbeing Worker to support you and your foster child</li><li>A Hub Carer providing up to 28 days of planned short breaks every year</li><li>24/7 Out-of-Hours Support, ensuring you’re never alone</li><li>Access to a network of other Step Forward Carers for peer support</li><li>Ongoing training in trauma-informed care and understanding neurodevelopmental needs</li><li>Therapeutic and psychological support to build on your existing skills</li></ul>
Financial Package: We recognise the commitment it takes to support a young person with complex needs and offer a generous financial package to help you focus fully on providing stability and care.<ul>
<li>£1,052 per week while you have a child placed with you (around £54,704 a year)</li><li>£408 per week retainer between placements (up to £21,216 a year)</li><li>Extra allowances for birthdays, holidays, and cultural celebrations</li><li>Tax exemptions specifically designed for foster carers</li></ul>
Is This You?We are looking for Early Years Managers who are:<ul>
<li>Passionate about making a difference beyond their current role</li><li>Skilled in building positive, trusting relationships with individuals from challenging backgrounds</li><li>Resilient, calm under pressure, and committed to providing stability</li><li>Ready to transfer their professional skills to a family-based setting</li></ul>
If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you!Please note: Ideally, applicants should not have children under 16 living at home, but we consider each family situation individually.To Be Eligible, You’ll Need:<ul>
<li>Experience working with vulnerable individuals or young people</li><li>Full-time availability and a spare bedroom</li><li>A willingness to complete our professional training</li><li>The right to work in the UK</li></ul>
Take the next step in your career and become a Step Forward Foster Carer. Your experience as an Early Years Manager could be the foundation for a truly life-changing role.

Sanctuary Personnel

Foster Carer - Early Years Manager

Become a Step Forward Foster Carer – A Life-Changing Opportunity for Family Therapists in BarnsleyPlease Note: This role requires you to be Self EmployedAre you a Family Therapist who is passionate about making a positive impact on vulnerable individuals? You already have the resilience, dedication, and commitment needed to make a profound difference in a young person’s life.We are looking for compassionate, strong-minded individuals like you to become Step Forward Foster Carers — offering a safe, nurturing home to a young person transitioning from residential care. This is a unique opportunity to take the skills you’ve developed in your role and make a lasting, personal impact. This could be your most rewarding role yet — offering not just care, but a future full of hope.What is Step Forward Fostering?Step Forward Fostering is a pioneering project that helps young people who have faced trauma, loss, and instability transition from residential care into a caring family environment. These young people aren’t just looking for a place to stay — they need someone like you: a supportive adult who understands their needs, builds trust, and provides the consistency they’ve often lacked. As a Step Forward Foster Carer, you’ll be part of a supportive team, working alongside professionals who are there to guide you every step of the way. You’ll never be alone on this journey.What You’ll Receive:We understand that caring for a young person with complex needs is a significant commitment. That’s why we provide comprehensive support — both emotionally and financially.Specialist Support:<ul>
<li>Your own Senior Practitioner offering regular guidance and supervision</li><li>A Family Wellbeing Worker to support you and your foster child</li><li>A Hub Carer providing up to 28 days of planned short breaks every year</li><li>24/7 Out-of-Hours Support, ensuring you’re never alone</li><li>Access to a network of other Step Forward Carers for peer support</li><li>Ongoing training in trauma-informed care and understanding neurodevelopmental needs</li><li>Therapeutic and psychological support to build on your existing skills</li></ul>
Financial Package: We recognise the commitment it takes to support a young person with complex needs and offer a generous financial package to help you focus fully on providing stability and care.<ul>
<li>£1,052 per week while you have a child placed with you (around £54,704 a year)</li><li>£408 per week retainer between placements (up to £21,216 a year)</li><li>Extra allowances for birthdays, holidays, and cultural celebrations</li><li>Tax exemptions specifically designed for foster carers</li></ul>
Is This You?We are looking for Family Therapists who are:<ul>
<li>Passionate about making a difference beyond their current role</li><li>Skilled in building positive, trusting relationships with individuals from challenging backgrounds</li><li>Resilient, calm under pressure, and committed to providing stability</li><li>Ready to transfer their professional skills to a family-based setting</li></ul>
If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you!Please note: Ideally, applicants should not have children under 16 living at home, but we consider each family situation individually.To Be Eligible, You’ll Need:<ul>
<li>Experience working with vulnerable individuals or young people</li><li>Full-time availability and a spare bedroom</li><li>A willingness to complete our professional training</li><li>The right to work in the UK</li></ul>
Take the next step in your career and become a Step Forward Foster Carer. Your experience as a Family Therapist could be the foundation for a truly life-changing role.

Foster Carer - Family Therapist

JOB-20241107-791d94d2Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for an Advanced Practitioner within the Safeguarding Team to work full time based in Barnsley. The salary for this permanent Advanced Practitioner job is up to £43,570per annum. Main duties:<ul>
<li>Support senior colleagues with the prioritisation, allocation, planning and review of work in accordance with policies, procedures and statutory requirements, contributing to effective budget management, ensuring values for public money and the maximisation of service efficiencies.</li><li>Contribute to service monitoring and evaluation, undertaking needs analysis, reviewing availability of resources and development of service practice, policies and strategies to maintain high quality services.</li><li>Provide supervision, direction and co-ordination of workloads, support and guidance, appraisal and professional development and support social work students on first and final placements; and students from other professional disciplines.</li><li>Undertake clear and detailed service user, carer assessments and interventions in accordance with relevant statutory requirements, minimising risks, with consideration for service user needs and available options.</li><li>Manage high complex cases including their planning and review, promoting independence and early intervention as well as the personalisation agenda and self directed support to minimise risks and improve quality of life for service users and their carers, ensuring targets are met within agreed timescales.</li><li>Work with individuals, families, carers and communities to help them make informed decisions, enabling them to clarify their needs, construct value for money care packages and commission a range of appropriate services, as well as respond to their feedback regarding service provision.</li><li>Assist in ensuring that statutory responsibilities are met and fulfilled by the team, ensuring that quality practice standards are achieved in delivery high quality, promoting use of evidence and theory to support practice in complex and changing circumstances.</li><li>Undertake preventative work and risk assessments utilising community resources and services such as reablement and tele healthcare.</li><li>Provide professional advice, guidance and information to a range of internal and external stakeholders as required, giving evidence in court and working with multi-disciplinary teams in relation to complex cases.</li><li>Manage complex transitions cases and chair multi-disciplinary team meetings as appropriate to specialised field/local structures.</li><li>Maintain up-to-date knowledge of best practice, policy and procedure in relation to vulnerable people as well as keeping abreast of wider service developments to enhance the service accordingly to satisfy internal and external demands.</li></ul>
Requirements of the Advanced Practitioner:<ul>
<li>CQSW, DipSW, BA Social Work of equivalent professional qualification.</li><li>Management qualification at least at Level 4.</li><li>At least 1 years’ experience of supervising professional staff.</li><li>Knowledge of relevant childcare legislation.</li><li>Ability to travel independently to all required areas by the job’s responsibilities.</li></ul>
Contact:If you are interested in this position please click above to apply now. Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements. As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award. Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process. Reasonable Adjustments:If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.

Advanced Practitioner - Safeguarding Team

JOB-20241107-791d94d2Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for an experienced Senior Social Worker within the MASH Team to work full time based in Doncaster. The salary for this permanent Senior Social Worker job is up to £37,916 per annum. Main duties:<ul>
<li>To undertake procedurally compliant assessments and section 47 enquiries that clearly identify levels and types of risk or need based on documented evidence.</li><li>To record and analyse information gathered during the process of social care assessment in line with the case recording policy, local and national guidance and best practice principles.</li><li>To undertake assessments in such a way as to lead to clear associated plans that address the issues identified for children in Doncaster.</li><li>To practice with a clear understanding of the revenant legislative principles, as up to date knowledge of research, emerging case law and best practice guidance.</li><li>Engage with children, their carers and families in such a way as to clearly understand their circumstances, wishes and feelings and form conclusions which direct longer term intervention focused on the best interests of the child.</li><li>To have involvement in the process of taking and recording children’s contacts and referrals, contributing to achieving a full understanding of the issues being referred, the relative urgency, the level of risk or need and the action needed in individual cases.</li><li>Assist in the provision of court statements and prepare reports that may be required by the courts and bodies in connection with children’s services.</li><li>Work alongside colleagues in providing social care advice and interventions across Doncaster Children’s Services Trust and all agencies.</li><li>Priorities in line with relative urgency/levels and types of risk and/or need and ensuring that children are safe and that their needs are met.</li><li>Contribute to the functioning of the team by fully engaging with the support of colleagues, understanding and working within established processes and advising less experienced staff members.</li><li>Contribute to the development of effective cross agency working both in individual cases and generally, where appropriate by providing representation to multi-agency meetings and forums.</li><li>Have ownership of own professional development, by fully engaging withy developmental supervision, critically evaluating own practice and ensuring up to date understanding of emerging case law, research and best practice guidance.</li><li>&nbsp;Provide information, guidance and advice on availability of local services and practices relevant to work with children, young people and families.</li></ul>
Requirements of this Senior Social Worker job:<ul>
<li>A social Work Qualification or equivalent.</li><li>Understanding of relevant legislation.</li><li>Continual professional development.</li><li>Social Work England registered.</li></ul>
Contact: This Senior Social Worker job is advertised by Stefan Garrett; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now. Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements. As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award. Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process. Reasonable Adjustments: If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.

Senior Social Worker - MASH

Forensic Social Worker Location: Chesterfield Salary: £37,000 per annum Contract Type: Full-time, Permanent Setting: Low Secure Unit - Male Service Users (Mental Health, LD, Autism)About the Role:We are seeking a compassionate and experienced Forensic Social Worker to join a dedicated multi-disciplinary team at a low secure unit in Chesterfield. This service supports up to 12 male service users with a range of complex needs including mental health conditions, learning disabilities, autism spectrum conditions, and other challenging behaviours. Many individuals may be subject to the Mental Health Act or other forensic role focuses on promoting recovery and rehabilitation while managing risk and ensuring that legal, ethical, and social care standards are met.Key comprehensive social work assessments, care planning and safeguarding interventionsAct as a key liaison between the unit and external agencies (e.g. MAPPA, probation, local authority, families)Ensure all legal frameworks (Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act, etc.) are correctly in Social Work and registration with Social Work England (essential)Experience working in a forensic mental health or secure setting (preferred)Knowledge of relevant legislation including the Mental Health Act, Care Act, and Mental Capacity ActExperience supporting individuals with learning disabilities, autism, and complex care needsWhat We salary: £37,000 per annumOngoing CPD and training opportunitiesOpportunities for career progression in forensic or complex care pathwaysTo Apply: Please send your CV to . Shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interview.

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