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
Permanent
Team Fostering is an ethical non‑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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Staff loyalty bonus
- Employee assistance programme
- 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.
Closing date: Sunday 21st June 2026
Location: Hedley Court, North Shields
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