Team Leader - Fostering

The job itself

The outcome of the council's Total Pay and Reward review means the full-time salary for this position from 1 st April 2024 will be £48,474 to £51,515. The salary will be pro rata for part time and term time vacancies.

The job itself

East Riding County Council are currently looking to recruit an enthusiastic and dynamic Team Manager to join our newly restructured Fostering Service.

The service is experiencing a period of growth and as one of 3 Fostering Team Leaders, you will be expected to supervise and oversee a busy team of social workers with the objective of providing an effective, high quality service to foster carers, children and partners.

The role includes management of the support of both Mainstream carers, whilst contributing to the recruitment and retention of foster families. We are therefore looking for candidates who can demonstrate impeccable knowledge of Fostering Minimum Standards, Safeguarding and Fostering Legislation and Care Planning Regulations.

Our Fostering Team Managers have a key role in supporting the Area Manager in the continuous development of the service and may be given responsibility for specialist service areas and the delivery of key service targets and objectives.

Experience of managing and supervising social workers would be highly desirable although applications would be welcomed from fostering senior practitioners and practice teachers who are interested in career progression. We are hugely ambitious for the future and would be particularly interested in applicants who are enthusiastic about developing service areas that will put East Riding fostering service at the very forefront of best practice.

To apply for this post, you must have a relevant social work qualification, such as Degree in Social Work, DipSW, CQSW, CSS or equivalent, and current Social Work England registration. A relevant management qualification or a commitment to work towards one is essential.

If you are interested in this post and would like some further information before applying, please email tim.clayton@eastriding.gov.uk with your preferred contact number and someone from the management team will get back to you.

We are strongly committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. The successful applicant will be required to undertake an enhanced DBS disclosure and a range of other recruitment checks.

Our model

You can, I can, We can'

We have created a bespoke practice model that reflects and connects our vision, our value base and our behaviour as one East Riding of Yorkshire approach to working with children, young people and their families, which is nurtured and grown from within East Riding of Yorkshire CYPSSS and owned by our workforce.

We remain committed to Signs of Safety as a practice framework, but this will be set within a much wider, values based, model of practice that clearly connects Signs of Safety much more clearly with the East Riding value base, and our overall approach to making and sustaining relationships with children, families, and communities.

Without a well embedded model, there is nothing to centre our practice on to ensure that, while the work may be different, all our teams are grounded in the same values, beliefs, theories and approaches. Having a well-developed practice model helps to create a common language for the service and enables everyone to understand how we go about doing the right things, in the right way and for the right reasons for children and their families.

We are a small team and positive relationships are valued. You will also be working with agencies across the East Riding of Yorkshire footprint so it is essential that the post holder is able to work effectively with others with a flexible and adaptable approach in a relational based approach - always demonstrating their commitment to working to the highest possible standards whilst remaining at all times child centred.

If you are meet all of these qualities, have the right value base, and are an innovative practitioner, then what are you waiting for? We are hugely ambitious for the future and have a real desire to provide a service to foster families and fostered children that is second to now! Apply now and make a difference!