Business Support Officer

2 weeks ago


Blackpool, United Kingdom Blackpool Council Full time

**Business & Corporate Services**

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- Administration

**Blackpool Council**

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**Contract Hours**: 37 Hours

**Salary**: NJC Grade D SCP 5 - 8 £23,500 - £24,702

**Contract Type**: Temporary until 31st March 2025

**Closing Date**: 14th February 2024

This is an exciting opportunity to join a brand new fostering recruitment team named Foster North West (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 North West 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 North West 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.
- establish a pan-local authority approach to fostering recruitment.

The Business Support Officer will:

- Be a valued member of the Foster North West Hub and provide administration and business support services to the Regional Fostering Recruitment and Retention Hub.
- Contribute to the identification of improvements to Business Support services.
- Liaise, communicate and build effective working relationships both internally and externally to ensure services are delivered in a seamless manner.

The roles will be recruited to in a timely way to meet our aim of launching the hub April 2024.

***If you think this role is for you, in addition to your CV, please include supporting information which evidences how you meet the criteria detailed on the key requirements document.**

For more information about the role and to arrange an informal discussion with a representative from the cluster of LAs please contact:
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£23,500

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temporary

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- 5 00 pm- 14th Feb 2024


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