Tafadzwa Njanike

• Providing trauma-informed, tailored support reflecting individuals’ goals and strengths.
• Building trusting relationships and offering practical advice (e.g., budgeting, wellbeing).
• Empowering individuals to make informed decisions about their future.
• Co-creating safety plans and connecting individuals with external services.
• Maintaining accurate records to ensure high-quality care.

·Supervise and support foster parents, ensuring the safety, welfare, and rights of children in placement.

· Manage allocated cases and monitor placements effectively.

· Ensure children’s wishes and feelings are regularly sought, recorded, and acted upon in collaboration with foster parents.

· Ensure compliance with Fostering Regulations and National Minimum Standards, particularly regarding children’s health, wellbeing, and social and emotional development.

· Work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary professional network, attending meetings, completing reports, and contributing to assessments.

· Liaise with key stakeholders to ensure foster parents operate within delegated authority and appropriate medical consent arrangements.

· Provide guidance, advice, and support to foster parents to deliver consistent, high-quality care.

· Ensure child placements are matched using robust, evidence-based, and defensible decision-making.

· Support foster parents in promoting children’s educational attainment, learning, and development, while championing equality and diversity.

• Helping residents to remain as active and independent as possible
• Support residents with personal care and mealtimes
• Helping identify residents’ unique goals and implement personalised care plans
• Supporting residents to explore new interests and engage in physical activities in a motivating and homely environment