Service Manager - Fostering Recruitment and Assessment

What will you be doing?

In this role you will have line management responsibility for three team managers, to manage three teams who are responsible for the recruitment and assessment of both mainstream foster carers and Kinship carers.

You will effectively manage resources, developing practice and performance, and deliver a strong service development plan; working with other service managers and colleagues across children’s services.

Please refer to the Job description for further details.

About you

We are keen to hear from you if you have strong leadership skills and a passion for continuous improvement as you lead by example. 

You will have a passion for working with applicant Foster Cares, Connected Persons, Special Guardians and Private Foster Carers. You will have experience in ensuring quality assessments and a knowledge base of relevant statutory legislation and guidance.

You will be creative and understand the commercial market in which fostering sits. You will be evidenced based in your practice and use data to support developments and quality assurance.

We're looking for confident and dynamic individuals who enjoy making a difference in their local community, are curious and spot things that others might not see, enjoys building relationships and likes to explore possibilities.

You must:

Be a qualified Social Worker with a Social Work England registration
Have the ability to work from a variety of locations and travel countywide independently
For a full list of the requirements of the role, please check out the Job Description & Person Specification.

Our benefits

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits. Benefits include:

• Flexible and creative working arrangements, including agile working
• Generous annual leave entitlement and flexible Bank Holidays
• A comprehensive wellbeing package
• Our Cambs Rewards employee discounts
• A comprehensive pension scheme
• IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
• Camweb our staff intranet helping to keep you informed
• An employee recognition scheme
• We offer a generous mileage allowance

About us

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off.   We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered.  We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Some examples of adjustments could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.

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