fesp fostering emergency support programme is a joint partnership with the wscc family resource teams over s frto s this is an exciting opportunity to be part of a specialist team that works intensively to return young people home from care social workers foster carers and other professionals work creatively and flexibly with the young person and their family whilst they are in a time limited placement with the aim of resolving conflict improving relationships and ultimately enabling the young person to return home in a safe and planned way you will have experience of child care social work andor fostering and registered with the hcpc you will hold a caseload and assess supervise and support foster carers you will have excellent communication and facilitation skills significant experience of working systemically with parentscarers and family groups and an understanding of solution focused approaches due to the need to travel within the county including to locations that are not always easily accessible by public transport a valid full driving licence is needed for this post we can offer excellent supervision ongoing training jointly with frto s and an opportunity to be part of an effective multidisciplinary team that has a track record of reducing the numbers of young people in care whilst achieving successful outcomes for young people and their families to apply for this position please go to the jobs pages on the west sussex county council website and use reference number cs00072