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Gloucester Family Care is a young person focused company who began offering a Supported Living service in 2020. When the company was established, our mission was to create a "sense of belonging to all” from the young people and children that we support, to our growing team of employees who are delivering our ethos and vision.
Our senior management team have over 80 years of experience in the sector and believe in developing, mentoring and offering opportunity to everyone in our GFC family. We believe in fostering positive relationships and we encourage strong bonds between children, young people and staff, we believe this gives young people the confidence they need to thrive and grow on their journey to independence.
Team work is key in everything that we do, we know that there can be some days that are harder than others in our line of work, so people are at the heart of every decision we make. GFC not only offer staff regular supervisions and mentoring with their senior team, we also invest in regular clinical supervisions with external mental health professionals.

We demonstrate a 'Safer Recruitment' process and all staff take part in a vigorous and thorough induction. We provide a supportive, inclusive environment ensuring all staff have an equal opportunity to further develop professionally, by means of training and working towards qualifications.

We are committed to ensuring all of our young people are safe and secure when with their support team, all staff must undergo an enhanced safeguarding process, this will include references and a full enhanced DBS screening.

Current Vacancies

Brand new for 2024!

We are launching a brand new Supported Living service for the South West. Bristol Family Care will open it Supported Living provision in Yeovil later this summer! We are looking for a Senior Support Worker to join our amazing team and be part of this exciting new project!

Bristol Family Care would like to enable staff to grow on both a personal and professional level, we feel that the role of Senior Support Worker can offer individuals the opportunity to achieve that.

In the role of senior support worker, you will still be expected to offer a high quality support, stability and security to our children and young people, by managing their diverse and individualised range of needs, in particular young people who are allocated to you for whom you are designated key worker.

You will have an additional responsibility to support your wider team, both junior and senior with a range of duties, including supervising a small team of support workers. As a senior support worker, you will be expected to have good communication and organisational skills to bring together BFC values, professional meetings and supportive information to young people and your wider team.

As a team we value individuals and the diversity this brings to BFC, a senior support worker must be able to navigate through supporting and developing not just junior staff, but also supporting senior team members by attending and contributing to team development meetings and supervisions. BFC offer staff both professional, clinical and group reflection supervisions, a senior support worker is expected to engage in all aspects of this practice.

Senior Support workers should be compliant with all BFC policies and procedures. In particular, our Health and Safety policies, Equality and Diversity and with the upmost importance, our Safeguarding policies. BFC encourages a culture of promoting appropriate preventative measures to minimise the risk of any safeguarding issues or incidents.

Senior Support worker should demonstrate an enthusiastic approach to staff development and CPD. Senior Support Workers will be expected to work towards and complete an NVQ L3 in Children’s, Young People’s workforce.

As a team we value individuals and the diversity this brings to BFC, we offer staff both professional, clinical and group reflection supervisions, we expect staff to engage in all levels of continuous professional development and training.

Job Overview

37.5 hours per week across varying shift patterns
Your salary range will be from £30,000 - £32,000 per annum.
You will be entitled to 28 days of holiday per year (measured in hours). BFC opt out of 'Bank Holidays' and allow staff to use Bank Holiday hours as regular annual leave as they wish.
You will be entitled to private healthcare after one year of service.
You will report to our Bristol Family Care Service Manager.
You will be mainly based in our Somerset service in Yeovil.
You may need to travel to our head office in Gloucester.
BFC is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children; applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosures Barring Service clearance at enhanced level.