Life Story Support Worker
Life Story Support Worker
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Job Description
Organisation:Leicestershire County Council
Work Location:County Hall Glenfield Leicester LE3 8RA
Worker Category:Hybrid Worker
Salary: 31074 - 33294 per annum (pro-rata for part-time)
Working Hours: 37 hours per week
Contract Type: Fixed Term
Closing Date:25th July 2025
Interview Date(s):w/c 28th July 2025
About the Role
The Life Story Worker is a support worker sitting within the Permanence Team to ensure all children with a care plan of adoption have a Life Story Book that supports children to understand their journey and experiences. The Life Story Worker will be creative and able to develop books for a wide range of children and will be able to explain complex stories in age-appropriate trauma-informed ways. The Life Story Worker will also inform adopters who have been matched with a Leicestershire child of that childs experiences trauma and needs to prepare them to have life story discussions with the child throughout their lifetime.
The Life Story Worker will be able to communicate professionally with adopters birth families foster carers and professionals to gather information memories and anecdotes to include in a childs memory book and life story book. They will also be able to support children and professionals in preparing children who are moving into their adoptive homes.
Ideally the applicant will be able to demonstrate a clear understanding of our continuous improvement journey including becoming a trauma-informed service and areas for development going forward.
A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.
For information on our approach to the recruitment of ex-offenders please see ourpolicy statement.
About You
To apply for this post you must:
- Have experience of working within a childrens services team and an understanding of fostering adoption and life story work.
- Be able to complete creative life story books to a high standard.
- Have an understanding of the impact of trauma on childrens development needs and behaviours.
- You must be able to evidence your skills and knowledge of creative innovative and relationship-based work working in collaboration with families and professionals.
- Demonstrate enthusiasm and passion for practice and be committed to helping us build a real culture of reflection and learning.
- Commitment to trauma-informed practice.
- Have a full valid driving licence and access to a vehicle.
You must also have an understanding of and commitment toequality diversity and inclusion.
In addition we also expect you to shareour commitment to our valuesand will ask you to provide evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
Interested in Flexible Working
We are keen to support employees in balancing their working lives with other commitments. Therefore wherever possible we will consider working arrangements that suit an individuals personal circumstances while still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working part-time hours compressed hours flexible start and finish times home/remote working etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style that determines where it can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories on theOur Working Stylespage on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussionplease contact:
Emma Johnson
Telephone:
If you have any technical issues when applying for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning(select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal:
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