Team Manager Fostering Regional Recruitment And Retention Hub

Job Description

Team ManagerFostering Regional Recruitment and Retention Hub

Salary: £43,421 - £45,441

Hours per week: 37 hours

Temporary/Fixed term: 12 months

Interview date: Wednesday 13 March 2024 

Fostering Regional Recruitment and Retention Hub -Transforming Young Lives

Lead our innovative virtual fostering Recruitment and Retention Hub! This remote role includes occasional travel within the Southwest Region, with flexibility for evening and weekend work. 

Join the new Southwest Regional Fostering Hub led by Wiltshire and Cornwall County Councils. This hub streamlines foster care recruitment across the region, bringing local authorities together to increase foster carer numbers and improve the lives and outcomes of children in care across the region.

The key features of the Hub are to:

• Enhance the journey from enquiry to application.
• Provide a streamlined journey to allocation to a local authority application, and approval.
• Amplify enquiries and establish an evidence base for impactful marketing strategies.
• Introduce a regional approach to support local authority fostering recruitment.
• Co-produce the design ensuring a good user journey through the system.

We seek a candidate with exceptional interpersonal skills to foster positive relationships with diverse partners and stakeholders. Ideal candidates will bring experience in fostering recruitment or related fields, along with a social work qualification and over 3 years of registration.

If you would like to be part of this exciting and transformative project, then apply today! 

Why us?

Wiltshire Council is a friendly, welcoming place to work, with a 'One Council' ethos. That’s why we focus on getting the things that matter to our people right. Explore more benefits here!

Please download and read the role description and person specificationcarefully before you apply as well as Our Identity.

For more details, contact Katrina McJannet, Head of Children in Care & Young People, at katrina.mcjannet@wiltshire.gov.uk, or call 01380 826238.

This role may be subject to certain successful security checks; please see the role description for more information.

We are firmly committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and to the principles of inclusion and diversity in both employment and the delivery of services. Read our statement of commitment to equality and inclusion.

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