What you’ll be doing
Fostering Kinship Support, a National Lottery funded service takes a trauma-informed, innovative approach to supporting kinship fostering families. The key outcomes of this programme are improved family relationships, greater connectedness, supported placements, increased wellbeing and ultimately improved outcomes for children and families. Funding from the National Lottery Community Fund enables The Fostering Network to coproduce an effective service that is truly informed and shaped by the needs and wishes of kinship fostering families.
The Programme Officer will work with the Fostering Kinship Support Project Co-ordinator to support children, young people, kinship foster carers and the wider kinship family group through delivery of training, nurture-based activities, learning programmes and family activities. Fostering Kinship Support is a regional programme, and as such the post-holder will work across Northern Ireland, collaborating with voluntary and statutory agencies to embed and develop the programme. The Programme Officer will work to develop and maintain relationships with key stakeholders, encourage participation and support quality delivery of the programme in line with project aims and objectives.
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