Tameside Fostering Service are a dynamic, exciting, nurturing and experienced team. Our aim is to provide support, training, supervisions to new and experienced foster carers. In Tameside we want to provide safe homes for children. We aim to ensure children have the opportunity to grow, have access to new opportunities and maintain contact with birth families when they cannot return home., We are looking to appoint a dedicated Training and Development Coordinator to support the needs of its foster carers. You will be joining a supportive and inclusive team who value your personal development.

The Training and Development Coordinator will develop a fostering training pathway that has a direct interface with the fostering skills levels.

A training and development pathway will enable foster cares to undertake relevant training specific to the children they care for to enhance and develop skills and knowledge.

The training programme will be linked to carers Personal Development Plans to 'stretch' and 'grow' carers to be able to care for children with additional needs, complex trauma behaviours and sibling groups.

The pathway will enable foster carers to gain accreditation and qualification.

You will receive regular supervision and work in a supportive culture where we are ambitious about delivering effective social work practice and supporting you to be the very best you can be.

We are looking for candidates with previous experience of working with foster carers, children and families; excellent people skills; ability to talk to the public; as well as the knowledge and skills to both deliver and commission training., Our employees' skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.

Message from Jill Colbert, Director of Children's Services

"I joined the council at the beginning of 2025 and was instantly charmed by the warmth, openness, and energy of colleagues.

"I came to Tameside for one reason; because I know we can do fantastic things for our families here.

"We're a children's service on a significant improvement journey. We know what needs to be different for our children and families and we're ambitious to deliver that change.

"We have a growing range of specialist services for children, where you can test and grow your skills and practice. We have a Social Work Academy that is led by people who bring passion to learning and who know that the DCS' of the future are right in front of them. We are working on our progression pathways so that staying in Tameside is rewarded and recognised. We have investment in innovation and improvement from the council so that we can grow services and support for families that we can sustain, from family hubs through to complex safeguarding.

"I am so certain that we can build a proud, inclusive and safe climate for great practice to flourish in Tameside. I'd love you to join me on the journey here at Team Tameside."

At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.

We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do.