Fostering Team Manager
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Fostering Team Manager
Role Responsibility
We are pleased to announce that due to the approaching retirement of the current postholder an exciting opportunity has become available for a dynamic and highly motivated Fostering Team Manager to join the East Kent Fostering Team who support and supervise our foster carers across Thanet.
The role will have responsibility in leading and directing a team of professional and experienced Senior Practitioners, Social Workers, and Social Work Assistants to provide high quality supervision, support, and training to foster carers and their families to enable them to provide the best possible trauma informed care to our children and young people.
You will be part of an established fostering management team, who under a realignment of work and expansion of our fostering service, will sit alongside four other mainstream fostering support team managers and the fostering recruitment, training and assessment team manager, under one Head of Fostering to deliver a consistent and high quality fostering service, which includes the provision of care to disabled children, children and young people requiring emergency bed care, parent and child and older children moving from residential provision to fostering families.
You will be expected to develop and motivate your team to fulfil the changing demands of the service through high quality social work supervision and compliance with the statutory requirements for Fostering, as well as having an interest and the capacity to contribute to the recruitment and retention of foster carers and service development. An understanding of children in care, foster carers and their families is essential to this role.
This is an exciting time to be joining the Kent Fostering Service as we have expanded to include the assessment and support of all kinship carers within our service, which will sit under another Head of Fostering, with whom we work in partnership.
You will act in a leadership role to contribute and support the management team with strategic and operational development, management and practice of Kent Fostering Service and Foster Carers.
You will need to maintain a personal awareness of legislation, departmental and corporate policies and procedures, particularly those relating to children in care and care leavers, acting in line with these to ensure consistency and a high quality of service delivery across the Directorate.
You will be an integral part of the Kent Fostering Service; self-motivated, energetic, and confident, with a can-do and positive attitude. Kent Fostering has a clear vision for the increased recruitment of foster carers from the local community, so strong leadership skills and the ability to be creative and deliver change will be required.
It is our ambition to enhance our support offer to Kent Foster Carers and improve our retention, building their skills and knowledge to safeguard our children and achieve positive outcomes and placement stability for them, so a strong communicator and a real passion for achieving good outcomes for children and young people through the provision of excellent foster care and supported homes is essential.
The role includes some evening and weekend work so a flexible approach and the ability to travel in a timely and effective manner is required.
This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure application to the Disclosure and Barring service and registration as a qualified Social Worker with Social Work England.
This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.
Closing date for this position is Friday 27th September 2024
Interviews will be held in person on Wednesday 9th October 2024
Contact Details
For an informal discussion about the post please contact Head of Mainstream and Disabled Childrens Fostering:
Maria Cordrey on 03000 418570.
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Please note - if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.