Working within our fostering service, you will have a direct impact on turning children’s lives around.
For more than 35 years, we have helped thousands of looked-after children and young people. Our service is committed to providing high quality, stable, foster families for children and young people. Our teams play a crucial role in finding, training and supporting Foster Carers across England. Thanks to our experience and reputation, the number of Foster Carers we are supporting is growing year on year.
Working within our fostering service, you will have a direct impact on turning children’s lives around this could be finding new Foster Carers to developing junior staff members
You will be supported and listened to every step of the way and have opportunities to build and develop your career at Five Rivers.
You will benefit from working with a well-established, child-centred organisation that is committed to turning children’s lives around. With over 35 years’ experience, we are well equipped to support you to develop in your role. We know how demanding and challenging our work can be. We value our people and want to recognise and reward you for the work you to.
Our Learning and Development team are committed to sourcing and delivering up to date, quality training opportunities. We continually look at new learning initiatives to make sure we’re providing the best continuing professional development we can. We also prioritise and discuss your personal development goals to ensure you’re getting the most out of your career.
You will automatically be enrolled in the Simplyhealth Cash Plan scheme which means you can claim back the cost of your everyday healthcare appointments. The membership also allows you free, immediate access to a 24/7 GP telephone helpline, and access to an Employee Assistance programme.
Access to the Blue Light discount card, which gives you two years of access to more than 15,000 discounts from large national retailers to local businesses across categories such as holidays, cars, days out, fashion, gifts, insurance, phones, and more.
We appreciate the invaluable contribution our employees make, so we recognise and reward loyal service. Our recognition scheme provides additional holiday entitlement for length of service and financial recognition for ten years and above.
Our annual leave allowance increases with your length of service.
We know how important having the right workforce is and we’re confident your network includes professionals who could bring expertise and experience to our work. We offer financial rewards for successful appointments to our staff from your network.
In addition, mothers with a year’s service can choose to return to work on a part-time basis for three months, while being paid their previous full-time pay.
This covers the wear and tear of your vehicle when visiting our foster families or supporting our young people (only applicable to certain roles please refer to a specific job advert).
Our leadership team will invest in your progression as a professional in the childcare sector, We source and deliver up-to-date training opportunities by using internal and external courses as well as online courses, including the following courses:
