Fostering Recruitment Officer

Peterborough City Council’s Fostering Service are looking for a Fostering Recruitment Officer to join the team.
You will be part of the Recruitment function and responsible for the successful recruitment of foster families. The focus of the role is to raise awareness of fostering across the service and within the local community to help generate fostering enquiries. The role also includes assessment of enquiries to establish as to whether they have the potential to become foster carers. You will work as part of a dynamic and positive recruitment team where creativity is welcomed.
The post is Peterborough based and offers the chance to establish close and meaningful relationships with foster carers, to be creative and passionate about our service goals and aspirations. Contribute to high quality service delivery, further develop strong partnership and cross service working and innovate and build on the good practice that is already in place.
In addition, we can offer you:
•A competitive *salary plus generous retention payments
•A relocation package up to £8,000 (T&Cs apply)
•Excellent pension scheme
•Agile working
•A wide range of training and CDP including opportunities for qualifications as a Practice Educator and Age Assessor
•Flexible Working Arrangements inc. 9 day working fortnight
•Generous Annual Leave
•salary grade subject to experience
We have stable and supportive management team who are aspirational for children and young people. The team are compassionate with a great sense of community.
An Ofsted focused visit in Summer 2021 found:
•‘The local authority’s quality of placement matching is an area of strength'.
•‘Senior leaders and social workers understand children's experiences' and consider 'their views, needs, wishes and feelings'. In addition, social workers apply 'thoughtful and thorough placement planning and help carers understand children's needs'.
•Senior leaders have a 'clear understanding and knowledge of practices, experiences, and children's progress in care'.
You do not need experience of fostering or recruitment foster carers but you do need a passion for finding good foster carers for children and young people.
•The successful candidate will have:
•Excellent interpersonal skills
•Good self-awareness and ability to be reflective and creative
•Great team working skills.
•Confidence to engage with the public and existing foster carers
•Good data collection skills
•Good analytical skills to establish positive outcomes in recruitment activity
If you would like to discuss any aspect of this role, please do not hesitate to get in touch with Amanda Carter on Tele: 07800601999 or Amanda.carter@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
The Fostering service is recruiting a range of posts and this is one of them. We are a ‘can do’ service that is committed to foster carers, developing local homes for local children so they can flourish in their home city.
There has never been a better time to work for our council. An explosion of growth is taking place in Peterborough which will benefit everyone who lives, works and spends time here. Peterborough’s new university opened its doors last year, with phases two and three in progress, and a new government hub at Fletton Quays opened its doors earlier this year.
Plans are afoot for many other city centre sites, including the railway station which the city council has received £48million from the Government’s Levelling Up Fund to redevelop, and a new city centre hub and footbridge across the embankment, as part of a number of projects being funded by the Government’s Towns Fund. Peterborough’s time really is now.
Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Peterborough and want our workforce to reflect this diversity, which we believe is beneficial for our employees, the organisation and the communities we serve.