Practice Manager – Fostering and Adoption

1 week ago

ChesterleStreet, United Kingdom Barnardo's Full time

Barnardo's Fostering North England is a leading national independent fostering agency, providing fostering and short break services across North England,

We aim to achieve high quality, stable placements for children and young people by ensuring that foster carers are appropriately recruited, assessed, trained and supported within the required regulations and national minimum standards.

Barnardo's Fostering North England are looking to recruit a Practice Manager to join our excellent team. This position is a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious experienced Social Work Practitioner to be involved in innovative practice, improving the outcomes and life chances for Children and Young People. 

This is a full time, fixed term, maternity cover  post . This post is primarily linked to our North England Fostering service with an expectation of occasional travel further afield.

You will work alongside another Practice Manager as part of a wider team of staff. You will be responsible for the recruitment, assessment and support of foster carers, who provide care to Children and Young People who are Looked After.

As practice manager you will work with Foster Carers and Young people, Multi-Agency Partners and Local Authority Children's Services in addition to range of internal and external contacts.  It is crucial that you are an excellent communicator, responding to the needs of all parties.

You will also have relevant Fostering/ Looked After experience and be confident and ambitions in leading a team to deliver a child centred service.

Some of the essential criteria for the role include:

Valid Social Work England Registration Comprehensive understanding of the legislation, National Standards and best practice Knowledge of external inspection processes Experience producing complex reports for relevant stakeholders Experience of supervising social work staff Full enhance DBS

Would you like to be involved in driving the growth and expansion of Barnardos North Fostering team. Please apply today and complete our application form online with the attached Person Specification for the role.

When completing your application please refer to your skills knowledge and experience in relation to the Person Specification and Job Description. This should be done with an understanding of the context of the service described.

Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible.

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