Fostering Manager Friends and Family Team

Our Friends and Family Social Work Team is at the heart of transforming the lives of children and families in our community. This role is all about combining compassionate leadership with ambitious standards to ensure children and families and the team receive the best support possible.

Why You'll Love This Role!

Our Fostering Service employs a trauma-informed approach, utilising therapeutic parenting models to ensure children receive the personalised support they need to thrive. You'll be part of a forward-thinking team making a real impact.

You'll love this role because it combines the opportunity to lead and inspire with a chance to make a real difference in the lives of children and families. Every day, you'll work alongside a passionate and dedicated team in a supportive, people-centred environment that values your expertise and commitment. You'll have the autonomy to drive improvements, set high standards, and develop innovative approaches to support friends and family carers, ensuring the best possible outcomes for children., We are seeking an experienced person to oversee our Friends and Family Social Work Team. In this role, you will be at the heart of driving impactful changes, ensuring high quality service delivery, and strengthening the bonds that support our families. Here is your chance to make a real impact and be a part of a forward-thinking, people-centred organisation.

You will have oversight of the day-to-day operations, ensuring our team delivers consistently high-quality social work assessments, support, and permanency. Your impact will be crucial in shaping our approach to supporting friends and family carers, overseeing the allocation, and conducting of Reg 24 and Viability Assessments and quality assuring, making sure our practices reflect the high standards we endeavour to provide.

The majority of our teams are sat together in Swinton at Unity House.

Rich in resources to help you with children or families you work with.

Robust training offer and mentoring scheme to support you with your career and aspirations.

A comprehensive Wellbeing Offer

Regular, quality, reflective supervision from a consistent management and leadership team.

Please be aware that this post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and that you will be required to meet the cost of the DBS check currently £49.52. The payment for this will be deducted from your first four months' salary payments at a rate of £12.38 per month. If you do not commence employment for any reason but the DBS has been processed, you will be sent an invoice for the payment of £49.52.

If you have lived or worked abroad for 3 months or more in the last 5 years or 12 months or more (whether continuously or in total) in the last 10 years whilst aged 18 or over, please refer to the link below for details for how to obtain your Certificates of Good Character. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants

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Continuous Service commitment
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Up to 34 days holiday a year (plus bank holidays).

Competitive salary

Free parking and essential car user allowance.

Hybrid working giving flexibility for you to manage your diary and offer a better work/life balance.