Fostering Placements and Family Finding Officer
Telford & Wrekin Council, Dawley Bank, Telford and Wrekin
Fostering Placements and Family Finding Officer
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Telford & Wrekin Council, Dawley Bank, Telford and Wrekin
- Full time
- Permanent
- Onsite working
Posted 3 days ago, 14 Mar | Get your application in today.
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: 7eff80485785401fb9374c86dccbdc52
Full Job Description
- Act as Senior for the team - being the main point of expertise and knowledge with regards family finding and placements within the fostering service. The post holder will work as part of the Children's Family Finding and Placements team, and in partnership with stakeholders, to lead on finding placements for looked after children which meet identified needs and best outcomes.
- Ensure robust systems for the effective implementation and delivery of family finding, tracking and monitoring.
- Provide regular reports to the Team Managers within the Fostering Service and Service Delivery Manager with a focus on feeding back key recommendations for efficiencies or improvements and highlighting best practice.
- Arrange and match children and young people in care needing foster care placements.
- Develop a direct working relationship with all internal foster carers in managing their availability, involving foster carers in improving our placement capacity through provision of information, development of systems and processes and receiving feedback to improve accuracy in relation to foster placement availability. Please click on the links below to view the job description and person specification. At Telford & Wrekin Council, we know that having a diverse workforce is key to providing the best possible services to our community. We celebrate having a diverse and inclusive culture where people are able to be themselves at work, and everyone has a voice. Posts working with children or vulnerable groups will be subject to an appropriate criminal records check. It is an offence to apply for a role that involves engaging in regulated activity with children and adults in vulnerable circumstances if you are barred from working with one or both of these groups.
- Understanding that there are layers to a person, a practitioner's ability to see the person as a 'whole'
- The ability to practice care and kindness
- Being able to really listen to children, young people, families and carers - what are their views, hopes, aspirations and worries?
- The ability to communicate well
Telford & Wrekin Council is an award winning council, and we were recognised as Local Authority of the Year 2022 at the Municipal Journal Awards, and the Association for Public Service Excellence Council of the Year in 2021. At Team Telford we work hard to protect, care and invest to create a better borough and our employees are at the heart of everything we do. Having the right people, with the right skills, in the right roles allows us to deliver the excellent services that residents and businesses on the borough expect from us. Our friendly and passionate teams are trusted by leaders and managers to deliver this ambition. We invest and nurture our workforce and support our employees to develop and thrive. The better we are the bigger difference we make to the people we serve.
In return we also offer a great range of benefits including competitive salaries, flexible working hours and work arrangements, employee discounts, salary sacrifice schemes, a local government pension scheme and generous annual leave entitlement. At Telford & Wrekin Council, we know that having a diverse workforce is key to providing the best possible services to our community. We celebrate having a diverse and inclusive culture where people are able to be themselves at work, and everyone has a voice and we know we are stronger and better connected as a result. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and where our data shows that specific groups are under-represented within our workforce, our adverts will actively encourage applications from these groups. We are also proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, committed to recruiting and retaining people with disabilities or other health conditions. You can find out more about this and our 'guaranteed interview scheme' here You can also read more about our Recruitment and Selection Policy and Recruitment of Ex-Offenders here and the Transgender & Non-Binary Inclusion Policy commitments here
