Clarecare: Social Care Leader - Life Story Work
Clarecare’s vision is to be the trusted quality care provider within our communities by supporting individuals and families to reach their full potential
Clarecare is a professional accredited social enterprise with charitable status, providing a range of person centred services for over 55 years to individuals and families in Co. Clare. Current services include Family Support, Older Person Services and Bushypark Residential Addiction Treatment Centre. Clarecare’s headquarters are based in Ennis with local offices in Bushypark, Shannon, Kilrush, Killaloe and Ennistymon. Further information is available on www.clarecare.ie www.bushypark.ie
Our Vision: is to be the trusted quality care provider within our communities by supporting individuals and families to reach their full potential.
Our Mission: is to provide person-centred services to individuals and families within our communities.
Our Core Values: • Collaborate • Accountability • Respect • Empathy • Trust
Clarecare’s Family Support Service
Clarecare Community Based Family Support Service is a service funded by Tusla and is part of a broad range of support services provided by Clarecare in County Clare. The Family Support Service offers individual and group support for parents, and individual support for children and adolescents. Working from a relationship-based practice approach, our professional family support staff aim to enhance parenting, family relationships and communication; and improve resilience, safety and wellbeing in all aspects of a child’s life.
Social Care Leader - Life Story Work: Children in Care Family Support Service
1 x full-time, fixed term contract of 20 months duration
Overview of Life Story Work: Children in Care:
Life Story Work is a therapeutic process that enables children to understand their journey into care, their background and information about their journey through care. Children and young people are supported to recognise, make sense of and resolve emotions relating to past life events, accompanied by their primary caregiver. Life Story Work helps a child/young person to develop a more accurate sense of identity as they grow and develop. 2
By participating in Life Story Work, the primary caregiver gains an understanding as to the impact a child’s history has on how the child manages strong feelings and relationships. This helps to build a therapeutic caregiving environment for the child, strengthening attachments and making positive change for their future.
The Social Care Leader gathers the child/young person’s key information from various sources to build a picture of the child’s history. This involves working closely with the allocated social worker, other professionals, birth family members and foster carers/caregivers. Using the researched history, photos, records and the child’s own memories, the Social Care Leader facilitates a therapeutic, creative space where the information is shared, processed and recorded. This is carried out using a variety of materials tailored to each child’s needs, age and capabilities. The record/book is given to the child/young person to add to into their future.
Children and young people in who are in care across the Mid- West region are referred by the Children in Care Teams, Tusla Child and Family Agency.
Please see Job Description attached below.
To Apply:
Closing Date is 5pm on Wednesday, 18th September 2024