Job Title: ZH Independent Panel Member - Fostering and Adoption
Post requires candidate to be entitled for work: Yes
Contract Type: Zero Hours
Full time/Part Time: Part Time
Term Time only post: No
Advert Closing Date: 02/11/2025
Job Overview
Do you have experience, either professionally or personally or both, of children being cared for away from their birth family?
Are you passionate about making a difference to the lives of children who are care experienced?
We are looking for new independent panel members who can bring a new perspective to our panel. We are very keen to hear from anyone is:
- Care experienced
- Trauma informed
- Has experience of fostering or adopting children
- Has experience of difference such as ethnicity, religion, heritage, gender, disability, and sexuality
- Has experience of health challenges
- Has experience of caring for children
What is involved?
You will play a vital role in the assessment and approval of foster carers and prospective adopters, ensuring that decisions are made in the best interests of children and young people. You will contribute to the panel’s function of quality assurance, safeguarding, and promoting high standards of care.
Equality and Confidentiality
To ensure that all those attending panel are treated with respect and courtesy.
To promote anti-discriminatory and anti-racist practice and address diversity and cultural issues.
To maintain confidentiality of all panel materials and discussions.
Training and Development
To attend induction and a minimum of one training day annually.
To engage in the annual review of your panel membership.
Payment: £100 per day
For further information or an informal discusstion please contact - Andy Waugh - a.waugh@health.gov.je
Job Purpose
Preparation and Participation
To read all panel papers thoroughly before each meeting.
To attend panel meetings prepared to discuss cases and contribute meaningfully.
Decision-Making
To declare an interest before discussion begins if you have previous knowledge of the prospective foster carers or adopters to be presented to panel.
Attendance
To attend scheduled panel meetings as agreed.
To be available for additional panels when possible.
Policy and Practice
To contribute to discussions on fostering and adoption policy and procedures.
To participate in making recommendations on each case, using personal lived experience and professional insight.
Policy and Practice
Equality and Confidentiality
To ensure that all those attending panel are treated with respect and courtesy.
To promote anti-discriminatory and anti-racist practice and address diversity and cultural issues.
To maintain confidentiality of all panel materials and discussions.
Training and Development
To attend induction and a minimum of one training day annually.
To engage in the annual review of your panel membership.
Conduct
To adhere to Government of Jersy’s code of conduct.
Jersey Public Service Careers
Across the Jersey Public Service, the scope of our work means our people enjoy a wide range of opportunities—working with recognised experts across teams, learning new skills, and developing their careers. We actively seek to recruit people from different backgrounds with diverse perspectives, creating a richer, more varied environment where you’re exposed to new ideas, new ways of thinking, and new opportunities to build an exciting and rewarding career.
To maintain the highest standards of public service, we have a rigorous screening process, to ensure candidates align with our values, skills, and professional requirements. This helps us create a trusted, capable workforce that can deliver excellence and safeguard our community.
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