Life Story Support Worker
| Posting date: | 17 July 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 August 2025 |
| Location: | Leicester, LE3 8RA |
| Company: | Leicestershire County Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 5708 |
Summary
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: County Hall, Glenfield, Leicester LE3 8RA
Worker Category: Hybrid Worker
Salary: £31,074 - £33,294 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 child’s 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 child's 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 our policy statement.
About You
To apply for this post, you must:
- Have experience of working within a children’s 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 children’s 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 to, equality, diversity and inclusion.
In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and 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 individual's 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 the Our Working Styles page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Emma Johnson
Telephone: 01163052345
Email: Emma.e.Johnson@leics.gov.uk
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 0300 3030222 (select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: https://emss.org.uk/support
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