Become part of a team which shares your passion
Thank you for your interest in working with us. Whether you’re an experienced practitioner, a newly qualified social worker, or you’re looking for a support services role, you’ll be able to develop your career in a great working environment with us in Reading.
Please note, we guarantee all Reading care leavers an interview if they meet the basic selection criteria for a vacancy. Please let us know as part of your application.
Apart from our executive roles, our vacancies are advertised on Jobs Go Public and on Total Jobs. The recruitment process is handled for us by our parent company, Reading Borough Council.
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Current Vacancies
1.5 FTE Education Mental Health Practitioners
Fixed term contract until 30.6.2025
Full time (37 hours per week) – Part time considered
Salary: £31,364 – £36,648
Closing date: 10 November 2024
Interview date: 20 November 2024
Reference no: BFC0785
EMHPs play a key role as members of the Mental Health Support Teams. The role will include, although not limited to, completing assessments to inform subsequent intervention(s) and involves working with children, young people and/or their parents/careers to support self-management of mild to moderate mental health needs through targeted and evidence-based interventions.
Applicants will also be expected to work with colleagues to provide better access to specialist mental health services and support referrals where required.
Successful applicants will be expected to manage their allocated caseload. They will be expected to prepare and present caseload information at regular supervision sessions.
Applicants should be enthusiastic and committed to promoting and supporting wellbeing and mental health. Applicants must have completed the ‘Education Mental Health Practitioner’ course. Previous experience of working with children and/or young people within education settings is desirable but not essential.
For more information about these roles or for an informal discussion please email and someone from the team will call you back: MHST@brighterfuturesforchildren.org
We look forward to hearing from you!
Full-time, Permanent post
Salary: £69,179 – £74,833 pa (includes £10,500 annual market supplement)
Closing date: 8 November 2024
Interview date: 27 November 2024
Reference no: BFC0789
We currently have a vacancy for an experienced Service Manager to join our Family Help & Safeguarding service. We firmly believe that relationship-based social work makes a real difference to the lives of children, young people and their families, and our generic Together for Families Teams, ASYE Academy Team, and Supporting Families Team all focus on delivering outstanding support to families.
Our Together for Families (TfF) Teams have been developed in order to allow children and families to benefit from the continuity of having only one social worker, and to form a relationship with that worker that promotes sustained positive change. The benefit for our social workers in this practice model is the ability to form consistent, meaningful relationship with children and their families; the opportunity to learn and to develop new skills whilst working across the journey of the child in statutory social work; to have lower caseloads, and a supportive environment that makes relationship-based social work flourish.
For more information and a confidential discussion, please contact Dudley Foster on Dudley.Foster@brighterfuturesforchildren.org
We look forward to hearing from you!
Full-time, Permanent post
Salary: £59,505 – £65,488 pa (includes £6700 annual market supplement)
Closing date: 8 November 2024
Interview date: 15 November 2024
Reference no: BFC0788
We currently have a vacancy for an experienced Team Manager to join our ASYE Academy Team, part of the Family Help & Safeguarding service. We firmly believe that relationship-based social work makes a real difference to the lives of children, young people and their families, and our ASYE Academy Team focus on delivering outstanding support to families.
Our newly created ASYE Academy Team has been developed in order to allow children and families to benefit from the continuity of having only one social worker, and to form a relationship with that worker that promotes sustained positive change. The benefit for our ASYE social workers in this practice model is the ability to form consistent, meaningful relationships with children and their families; the opportunity to learn and to develop new skills whilst working across the journey of the child in statutory social work; to have lower caseloads, and a supportive environment that makes relationship-based social work flourish.
For more information and a confidential discussion, please contact Dudley Foster on Dudley.Foster@brighterfuturesforchildren.org
We look forward to hearing from you!
Mental Health Support Team
2x Senior Educational Psychologists (SEPs) for Mental Health Support Team.
1x Part time (0.7fte) one year contract (maternity cover).
1x Full time until end of June 2025 with possibility of extension, subject to funding review.
Previous SPA points will be honoured.
Salary: Soulbury, Scale B 3 – 9, £56,540 – £65,120
Closing date: 24 November 2024
Interview date: 3 December 2024
Reference no: BFC0791
SEPs play a key role as members of the Mental Health Support Teams (MHST). The role of the SEP in the MHST is to take a lead responsibility for line management and supervision of the team, to liaise with schools in regard to improving the quality of education and standards of attainment of pupils with social emotional and mental health difficulties (SEMH) and to contribute to the development of the MHST.
The MHST delivers services to children, young people, their families and school staff via a combination of face-to-face visits to schools and also remotely via telephone and video calls.
For more information about these roles or for an informal discussion please contact: via email on MHST@brighterfuturesforchildren.org or call Claire Thomas on 07970725086.
We look forward to hearing from you!
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Routes into Teaching
Our local Initial Teacher Education provider, the University of Reading, works in partnership with local schools to provide various routes into teaching. These include primary and secondary School Direct, school-based routes into teaching through which trainee teachers are embedded in local schools throughout the year as well as attending university for core training and support. Visit the following pages for further information and to find out your next step on the road to becoming a teacher:
If you are a Reading school interested in hosting ITE, please find out more and contact the University via Institute of Education – Partnership website
This can be a great way to ‘grow your own’ teachers, and with both salaried and tuition-fee funded routes available there is not necessarily any cost to the school.
How to join us
Our staff are at the very core of what we do. Without them we wouldn’t be able to provide any of our services. They represent us within the community and are at the frontline of decision making for many children, young people and their families.
Our aim is to value, support and enable everyone to be able to do their jobs well and it’s the same for our employees of the future.
We value the fact that it takes time in your busy day to call and make an enquiry or to complete an application form. It is important to us that we provide an efficient and effective service to everyone that we have contact with and we aim to provide all candidates with a very positive and efficient recruitment experience.
We aim to confirm receipt of all enquiries within 48hrs and to keep you informed at each stage of the recruitment process.
Most of our communication with you will be via email so be sure to give us the correct email address.
We welcome enquiries and visits so if you would like to pop in and meet us and see who we are prior to making an application or attending an interview then just let us know.
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