Careers

A career with PfP is an exciting opportunity to

• Support more children to remain with their birth parent(s);
• Make a positive impact in Wales;
• Be supported to make the most of your own potential;
• Contribute to the successful start of our first family residential centre working as Partnerships for Progress; and
• Support our Mission to support each child to have the best start in life.

Our centre, Ty Seren, has been set-up to deliver two core objectives:

• Help parent(s) improve their skills, confidence and behaviours such that children have the best possible chance to stay in their parents’ care.
• To provide robust and effective parenting assessments so the best possible determination can be made by statutory bodies and courts of what is in each child’s best interests (particularly from a safeguarding perspective).

Delivering these two objectives ensures we fulfil our mission of supporting each child to have the best start in life.

• Collaborative: Families will achieve better outcomes by all of us openly working together to achieve shared aims.
• Aspirational: Each individual (child / parent / staff member) is supported to maximise their potential.
• Inclusive: Our culture values all individuals, and we treat each person with equality, dignity and respect.
• Reflective: We help parents to reflect and make the necessary changes to their behaviour in order to meet their child’s developing needs.  We critically reflect on our own practice to continuously improve the quality of services we provide.
• Safe: We ensure that every individual using our service is safeguarded to the best our ability and that everyone feels physically and psychologically safe, via the provision of a nurturing environment and supportive relationships.

We aim to recruit team members who:

• are enthusiastic
• are approachable
• have knowledge or experience relevant to the role (e.g. working with children and/or vulnerable adults)
• are committed to our values
• care about, and are supportive of, those around them
• listen and seek to understand others
• are committed to the development of others as well as improving their own skills and abilities
• are proactive and follow-through on commitments made to others
• want to help create a positive, responsive, supportive and open culture
• are looking to develop their skills and career
• have some experience of supporting, or working with, vulnerable adults or children

• As you would expect in a regulated social care environment, there is a qualification framework which applies to all residential family centres in Wales.
• For a Family Support Worker role, you must have, or be willing to complete, the Level 3 Health and Social Care: Practice (Children and Young People) and/or other qualifications required by Social Care Wales for any future registration requirements. See Social Care Wales qualification requirements.
• For other roles, please check the person specification to see whether a qualification is essential or desirable for the role you are applying for.
• If you are unsure about the requirements for a specific role you are applying for, please contact us via telephone for an informal discussion.

PfP is committed to providing its staff team with pay and conditions that help to attract and retain staff who are able to make a positive impact on the families we support.  The benefits we offer include:

• An inclusive and supportive culture
• A robust induction
• Ongoing training and development (including the opportunity for promotion through the bandings)
• The equivalent of 30 days annual leave as standard for full-time staff (inclusive of bank holidays)
• A workplace contributory pension
• Life insurance
• Qualification based bonus
• Refer a friend scheme
• Eligibility for Blue Light Card
• Eligibility for discounted gym/leisure membership
• Access to mental health and counselling support

Please also see the Why join PfP? response above for some of the wider benefits of working for PfP  – especially the positive impact you will have on others.