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Practice Consultant
We are seeking an experienced fostering professional to help improve fostering practice, support foster carers and influence positive change across Wales and the wider UK.
Position: Practice Consultant, Wales
Salary: £43,483 to £48,659 per annum
Location: Wales, home-based/hybrid with optional Cardiff office working and some UK travel
Hours: Full-time, 35 hours per week
Contract: Permanent
Closing date: 23 September 2026
Interview date: 9 October 2026, Cardiff
About the role
As Practice Consultant, you will use your fostering expertise to improve practice and provide high-quality advice, advocacy, mediation, training and consultancy to foster carers, fostering services, social workers and other professionals.
Working as part of a UK-wide practice team, you will help ensure that fostering practice is trauma-informed, child-centred and solution-focused.
Key responsibilities include:
- Providing specialist advice, advocacy and mediation
- Delivering training, webinars, forums and practice consultancy
- Supporting improvements in fostering policy and practice
- Developing and sharing evidence-based best practice
- Building strong relationships with foster carers, fostering services and other stakeholders
- Contributing to publications, guidance and learning resources
- Representing the organisation at regional and national events
- Using feedback and data to evaluate impact and support continuous improvement
About you
You will bring significant knowledge and experience of fostering, with a strong understanding of the legislation and regulatory framework governing foster care.
You will be a foster carer, or hold a relevant degree-level or social work qualification with fostering practitioner experience. You will have experience of providing consultancy and advice within fostering or related services, alongside experience of advocacy, mediation and delivering training.
You will also have excellent communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to work confidently with a wide range of stakeholders.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable but is not essential.
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About the organisation
You will be joining a leading UK fostering charity and membership organisation dedicated to supporting the relationships at the heart of the fostering community.
The organisation offers flexible and hybrid working, 38 days' leave including bank holidays, enhanced family-friendly leave, enhanced sick pay, pension and life assurance, and access to an Employee Assistance Helpline.
Applications are particularly welcomed from people from under-represented and minoritised backgrounds and those with lived experience of care.
Other roles you may have experience of could include: Fostering Social Worker, Fostering Practice Consultant, Fostering Advisor, Practice Development Consultant, Social Work Consultant, Fostering Training Consultant, Fostering Development Officer, Practice Development Manager, Fostering Support Manager, Fostering Services Manager.
Ymgynghorydd Ymarfer
Rydym yn chwilio am weithiwr proffesiynol profiadol ym maes maethu i helpu i wella ymarfer maethu, cefnogi gofalwyr maeth a dylanwadu ar newid cadarnhaol ledled Cymru a'r DU ehangach.
Swydd: Ymgynghorydd Ymarfer, Cymru
Cyflog: £43,483 i £48,659 y flwyddyn
Lleoliad: Cymru, gweithio gartref/hybrid gyda'r opsiwn o weithio o swyddfa Caerdydd a rhywfaint o deithio ledled y DU
Oriau: Llawn amser, 35 awr yr wythnos
Contract: Parhaol
Dyddiad cau: 23 Medi 2026
Dyddiad cyfweliad: 9 Hydref 2026, Caerdydd
Am y rôl
Fel Ymgynghorydd Ymarfer, byddwch yn defnyddio eich arbenigedd ym maes maethu i wella ymarfer a darparu cyngor, eiriolaeth, cyfryngu, hyfforddiant ac ymgynghoriaeth o ansawdd uchel i ofalwyr maeth, gwasanaethau maethu, gweithwyr cymdeithasol a gweithwyr proffesiynol eraill.
Gan weithio fel rhan o dîm ymarfer ledled y DU, byddwch yn helpu i sicrhau bod ymarfer maethu yn ystyriol o drawma, yn canolbwyntio ar y plentyn ac yn canolbwyntio ar ddatrysiadau. Mae'r egwyddorion hyn hefyd wedi'u nodi yn y proffil rôl Cymraeg a ddarparwyd.
Prif gyfrifoldebau:
- Darparu cyngor arbenigol, eiriolaeth a chyfryngu
- Cyflwyno hyfforddiant, gweminarau, fforymau ac ymgynghoriaeth ymarfer
- Cefnogi gwelliannau mewn polisi ac ymarfer maethu
- Datblygu a rhannu arfer gorau sy'n seiliedig ar dystiolaeth
- Meithrin perthnasoedd cryf gyda gofalwyr maeth, gwasanaethau maethu a rhanddeiliaid eraill
- Cyfrannu at gyhoeddiadau, canllawiau ac adnoddau dysgu
- Cynrychioli'r sefydliad mewn digwyddiadau rhanbarthol a chenedlaethol
- Defnyddio adborth a data i werthuso effaith a chefnogi gwelliant parhaus
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Bydd gennych wybodaeth a phrofiad sylweddol o faethu, ynghyd â dealltwriaeth gref o'r fframwaith deddfwriaethol a rheoliadol sy'n llywodraethu gofal maeth.
Byddwch yn ofalwr maeth, neu bydd gennych gymhwyster perthnasol ar lefel gradd neu gymhwyster gwaith cymdeithasol gyda phrofiad fel ymarferydd maethu. Bydd gennych brofiad o ddarparu ymgynghoriaeth a chyngor o fewn gwasanaethau maethu neu wasanaethau cysylltiedig, ynghyd â phrofiad o eiriolaeth, cyfryngu a darparu hyfforddiant.
Bydd gennych hefyd sgiliau cyfathrebu a meithrin perthnasoedd rhagorol, gyda'r gallu i weithio'n hyderus gydag ystod eang o randdeiliaid. Mae'r gallu i siarad Cymraeg yn ddymunol ond nid yw'n hanfodol ar gyfer y rôl.
Am y sefydliad
Byddwch yn ymuno ag elusen faethu a sefydliad aelodaeth blaenllaw yn y DU sy'n ymroddedig i gefnogi'r perthnasoedd sydd wrth wraidd y gymuned faethu.
Mae'r sefydliad yn cynnig gweithio hyblyg a hybrid, 38 diwrnod o wyliau gan gynnwys gwyliau banc, polisïau gwyliau gwell sy'n ystyriol o deuluoedd, tâl salwch gwell, pensiwn ac yswiriant bywyd, a mynediad at Linell Gymorth i Weithwyr.
Croesewir ceisiadau'n arbennig gan bobl o gefndiroedd sydd heb gynrychiolaeth ddigonol a chefndiroedd lleiafrifol, a chan bobl sydd â phrofiad personol o ofal.
Gallai rolau eraill y gallai fod gennych brofiad ohonynt gynnwys: Gweithiwr Cymdeithasol Maethu, Ymgynghorydd Ymarfer Maethu, Cynghorydd Maethu, Ymgynghorydd Datblygu Ymarfer, Ymgynghorydd Gwaith Cymdeithasol, Ymgynghorydd Hyfforddiant Maethu, Swyddog Datblygu Maethu, Rheolwr Datblygu Ymarfer, Rheolwr Cymorth Maethu, Rheolwr Gwasanaethau Maethu.
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