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Kent Fostering has a clear vision for the increased recruitment of foster carers from the local community. It is our ambition to enhance our support offer to Kent Foster Carers and improve our retention, building their skills and knowledge to safeguard our children and achieve positive outcomes and placement stability for them.
It is therefore an exciting and challenging time to be working in the field of Fostering. You will have an opportunity to be joining teams whose goals are to increase placement stability. In this role you will provide high quality supervision, support and training to foster carers and their families. You will work alongside the fostering assessment teams to recruit foster carers across the county.
You will be part of an established fostering support team, who under a realignment of work, and expansion of our fostering service, will sit alongside five other mainstream fostering support teams under one Head of Fostering to deliver a consistent and high quality fostering service, which includes the provision of care to disabled children, children and young people requiring emergency bed care, parent and child and older children moving from residential provision to fostering families
You will be supporting foster carers to understand the meaning of their child’s behaviour and to consider what might help to both manage the behaviour and sustain the relationship with the foster child.
This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.
This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure application to the Disclosure and Barring Service and registration as a qualified Social Worker with Social Work England.
In addition we can pay annual market premium payments subject to eligibility
Interview date: 12.02.24
