Jobs in Paisley Northwest, Renfrewshire

Kibble is a specialist provider of services for at risk children and young people across the UK. Many of the young people the charity cares for have experienced significant trauma in their lives and we provide a safe, stable environment that is both nurturing and therapeutic. With a robust support network and wide range of integrated services, we offer young people opportunities and encourage them to believe in themselves, feel a sense of belonging, and realise their own self-worth.

Why Foster with Kibble?

At Kibble Fostering we pride ourselves on being a ‘fostering family’, made up of incredible children and young people. We’re a friendly and professional care team that includes our invaluable foster carers.

We do things differently compared to many other fostering agencies when it comes to the dedicated, skilled and knowledgeable team. We link up to every foster carer and young person, making sure you never feel alone or isolated. This support includes a 24/7 package of supports from our skilled placement supervisors and managers. They can also, if required, draw on wider supports from our colleagues working to support other Kibble Group community-based services.

Our success as a service has been recognised in our most recent Care Inspection. We were assessed to be sector leading for assessment and care planning. Read our Care Inspection report here.

We train together, make plans for our service together. We also recognise the need to support our foster carers financially and believe our foster carer fees to be amongst the highest remuneration rates in the country. Kibble Fostering provides long-term continuity and stability for the most vulnerable children within a supportive professional family.

Foster Carer Overview

To foster is to provide care, support and a loving home to a child or young person who is unable to live with their birth family.

There are various reasons why a child comes into care. These are normally due to the child’s early childhood experiences. Many of the young people at Kibble have experienced trauma in their short lives. Being welcomed into a supportive family home can be life-changing for them.

If approved as a foster carer with Kibble Fostering, you then become part of a team recognised to be sector leading. This covers their approach to care, support and planning for our young people.

Full-time Foster Carer

This is when you have a young person placed on a full-time basis. For this role, we would not expect you to be in any other paid employment, committing fully to your self-employed role as a full-time foster carer.

Foster Carer Responsibilities:

• Provide compassionate care and support for foster children, ensuring their physical and emotional well-being.
• Foster a safe and nurturing environment, promoting positive behaviour, emotional growth, and a positive attitude towards education.
• Maintain accurate records of care and progress, communicating effectively with the team around the child.
• Advocate for the child and, where appropriate, support their relationship with their birth family.
• Demonstrate patience, understanding and resilience, and be keen to practice therapeutic parenting skills.

The benefits of Fostering with Kibble:

• Full care team around for 24-hour support
• Allocated Family Placement Supervisor
• Allocated support worker who provides support for the young people and carers, carrying out focused pieces of work in support of all aspects of the care plan
• All young people can experience regular outreach time with support staff each week
• Excellent training and qualification opportunities
• Generous professional fees – up to £35k per child, per annum
• Generous allowances – up to £15k per child per annum
• Regular supervision
• Access to additional and specialist resources in support of the young person or foster carer as part of the Kibble Group.
• 28 days annual leave

Fostering Assessment:

The fostering assessment will cover practical information about your circumstances, and detailed information about you and your family (if applicable). You will also attend our Skills 2 Care training course, and we will ask for various checks and references including a PVG Check. The assessment process should take around 4 – 6 months to complete.

We’d love to hear from you if you:

• Have a spare room in your home.
• Have the time to give a child comfort, stability and security.
• Are willing to commit to training and professional development

Kibble Fostering welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds.

Renfrewshire is committed to finding ways of reducing inequalities and improving quality of life for our diverse ethnic communities, through systemic change and cultural understanding.

IN-Ren (Integration Network Renfrewshire) is a forum acting to ensure that ethnically diverse communities’ voices are being heard and involved in local services and decisions.

The IN-Ren Network Facilitator (funded by The National Lottery Community Fund) will:

• support improvement and change through awareness of, and access to, services available to the ethnically diverse communities of Renfrewshire

• support the promotion and awareness of a wide range of programmes, developed and delivered by IN-Ren members, aimed at reducing barriers to employment, health and cultural activity

• support community cohesion by supporting cultural programmes including events and campaigns

• further develop the membership of the Integration Network for Renfrewshire (IN-Ren)

The IN-Ren Network Facilitator will support an approach that includes a commitment to developing strong, sustained advocacy by empowering participants to act as local advocates themselves, and their growing communities.

The IN-Ren Network Facilitator will be aware of the need to empower participants to build well-resourced structures that have confidence, skills, and trusted relationships with local statutory partners at their core.

The Community Officer post will drive forward work in relation to preventing harm from tobacco, second-hand smoke and vaping, across Renfrewshire.

The post will have a targeted focus on early years, children and families, therefore focussing on groups identified as most at risk of harm.

The Community Officer will work with local community and third sector organisations to increase knowledge around the harms of tobacco, second-hand smoke and vaping, as well as providing support to access to local Quit Your Way Services which offer free stop-smoking support across Renfrewshire. The Quit Your Way team provide a friendly, knowledgeable and dedicated face-to-face, telephone or online support to individuals throughout their quit journey.

The Officer will share resources and services from within the Renfrewshire HSCP and NHS GGC to a range of network partners.

They will deliver awareness campaigns around the prevention of harm from tobacco, second-hand smoke and vaping, engage with community groups and collaborate with local organisations to promote healthier choices.

The Community Officer will increase capacity by working in partnership with community organisations to upskill staff on how to effectively share knowledge around the harms associated with tobacco, second-hand smoke and vaping, increase staff confidence in signposting on to relevant Quit Your Way Services and ensure that work feeds into relevant Tobacco and Vaping strategy via the Health Improvement Team.

The Officer will be a part of Engage’s Community and Voluntary Action (CAVA) Team and will be encouraged to link with other team members throughout the project to promote across existing networks and agendas.

The Officer will work closely with Renfrewshire HSCP Health Improvement Team and will be based 0.5 days a week within their office space at Linwood Health Centre to ensure collaborative working. Renfrewshire HSCP Health Improvement Team will provide professional support for the post holder throughout.

We are looking for an experienced Corporate Fundraiser who enjoys nurturing relationships with donors and partners, and who has the drive to grow and develop new partnerships to benefit children and families in hospital.

As a key member of the Partnerships & Business Development Team, the Senior Corporate Fundraiser will account manage partnerships with organisations from a variety of sectors, implement engagement and fundraising strategies that exceed expectations, and achieve the charity partnership objectives.

The role of the Supporter Care Executive includes donation processing, data entry, donor care fulfilment and administration, answering enquiries to Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity by email, telephone and in person.

Key to the role is to identify and develop opportunities for our supporters and to realise the long-term value of potential supporters, new supporters and activity participants by ensuring they are sign-posted and informed of the many ways in which they can support our Charity.

This role requires a flexible and autonomous approach, which will see you support the collective efforts of the Charity to maximise the impact on the children, families and NHS staff that we support.