Team Manager - Fostering - Recruitment and Assessment Team
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Team Manager - Fostering - Recruitment and Assessment Team
Hours: Full time (37 hours per week)
At Dudley MBC we're recruiting for a third Team Manager to join our dynamic Fostering Service which is committed to delivering high quality support and supervision to our Foster Carers and the children that they look after. The service is based at Corbyn Road in Dudley, which has the advantage of ample free parking.
Dudley Fostering Service is dedicated to recruiting and assessing the very best Carers to provide a warm and loving home for our children in care, both mainstream and connected.
In this post you will report directly to the Service Manager for Fostering.You will also be part of a supportive management team within a restorative local authority that is committed to the training and development of its social work practitioners.
You will be responsible for:-
- 7 FTE Social Workers, one of whom has responsibility for Private Fostering
- 1 Recruitment and Retention/Marketing Officer
Your team completes joint viability assessments for connected carers with the children's social workers, as well as full connected persons assessments.The team is also responsible for recruitment and assessment of mainstream foster carers and has successfully increased our recruitment in this area in the last year. You and your team work closely with the two Fostering Support Teams.
As a Team Manager you will provide regular welfare and case supervision to the practitioners within your team.You will also have access to a wide range of training and development opportunities both in house and via our Centre for Professional Practice.
As manager of this team you must be a qualified social worker with previous management experience or management ability. Previous experience of working with foster carers and fostering assessments is desirable.
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About Dudley Council
It's an incredibly exciting time to work in Dudley Council as we embark on numerous multi-million pound regeneration schemes which will be real game-changers for the borough. In addition to the exciting schemes such as the Midland Metro we also have the ongoing and very serious challenges of ensuring vulnerable people across the borough receive the services they deserve.
At Dudley Council we have a 'one council' ethos that builds an effective and dynamic organisation which grows the economy and creates jobs, creating a cleaner and greener place and supports stronger and safer communities.
We are rightly proud to be the historic capital of the Black Country and, working with our partners, Dudley Council is also committed to looking forward and helping to deliver our borough vision of 'Forge a Future for all' www.dudleyboroughvision2030.org.uk
We ensure communities influence council decisions and are committed to delivering services in partnership with communities. We provide flexible and responsive service in partnership and help communities help themselves.
In joining a local authority that serves 320,000 residents you will become an integral part of a council that:
• is ready to embrace change, providing an environment in which you will be encouraged to make your mark
• is aware of its key challenges and the need for a new energy to innovate the council, in order to find cost effective ways of delivering services
• has aligned its political and managerial leadership structures and is committed to protecting, securing and transforming the lives of children, families, the vulnerable and older people
• wants borough residents to have their say through our community forums
• dedicates time to meaningful consultation and listen to the views of our residents
• is working with the community to encourage active involvement of our residents
We want to leave a legacy of a better future for the borough that reflects Dudley borough's potential and harnesses the ambitions of the people we serve. For more information see our Council Plan www.dudley.gov.uk/council-community/plan-policies-and-strategies/council... , Dudley Borough Vision for 2030, Forging a Future for All www.dudleyboroughvision2030.org.uk and key information about the borough and its communities at All about Dudley Borough www.allaboutdudley.info
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Dudley
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