Fostering Recruitment Coordinator

2 months ago


Blackburn with Darwen, United Kingdom Lancashire County Council Full time

Salary £28770 - £32076 per annum pro rata | Fixed Term until 31/03/2025, Full Time, 37 hours

**IMPORTANT: PLEASE DO NOT APPLY FOR THIS VACANCY ON THIS WEBSITE PLEASE FOLLOW THE LINK BELOW**

**PLEASE NOTE: YOUR APPLICATION WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED IF YOU APPLY ON THE LCC WEBSITE**

**There are two posts being recruited to, and full time workers are required.**

This is an exciting opportunity to join a brand new fostering recruitment team named Foster with us (tbc).

Blackburn with Darwen (Lead Authority), Blackpool, Cumberland, Lancashire and Westmorland and Furness Councils are launching a combined approach to Foster Carer recruitment and retention.

Foster with us (tbc) is a Regional Fostering Recruitment and Retention Hub that will provide a warm, welcoming and positive approach to the start of the journey for prospective Foster Carers.

Foster with us (tbc) is part of a Department for Education (DfE) funded programme, based on Stables Homes Built On Love, Social Work reform and includes:

- The launch of a responsive multi-skilled hub, which will offer meaningful support, that enables, and empowers prospective Foster Carers to begin their journey of ensuring children are healthy, safe, and happy in local and loving family homes.
- The hub will build on existing regional relationships across the local authorities to achieve our shared vision for foster care, and develop a strong single recruitment communications campaign.
- A foster carer retention programme that aims to provide support to individual foster carers tailored to their needs and develop the Mockingbird model. Which aims to improve placement stability, safety and permanence for children and young people, whilst also improving the support for foster carers.

The hub will:

- act as the first point of contact for those interested in fostering.
- boost the number of quality enquiries and build evidence of effective marketing strategies.

The team of Fostering Recruitment Coordinators will:

- Work within the Foster with us hub based in Blackburn with Darwen and be the first point of contact for all prospective foster carers across the cluster (Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool, Cumberland, Lancashire and Westmorland and Furness Councils).
- Demonstrate enthusiasm with good communication skills when speaking to applicants, be supportive, caring, kind, respectful, and creative. Play a role in tracking enquiries where some people will require a level direct support, training and guidance and support them on their journey to progress them to an assessment.

In order to support all the authorities involved in the project, flexible and hybrid working is supported and encouraged.

For more information about the role and to arrange an informal discussion with a representative from the cluster of LAs please contact:
**Previous applicants need to apply.



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