Fostering Recruitment Coordinator

2 weeks ago


Blackburn with Darwen, United Kingdom Blackburn with Darwen Council Full time

Job description

**Terms and Conditions: 37 hours, Fixed Term until 31st March 2025**

**Department: Children’s and Education**

**Shortlisting Date: w/c 25th March 2024**

**Interview Date: w/c 1st April 2024**

**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.
- establish a pan-local authority approach to fostering recruitment.

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.**

**Job details**:
Job reference
- REQ02782

Date posted
- 08/03/2024

Application closing date
- 24/03/2024

Location
- Blackburn with Darwen

Salary
- Grade F, SCP 17-23, £28,770 - £32,076 per annum

Package
- Flexible working hours with some evening and weekend working with agile working arrangements

Contractual hours
- 37

Basis
- Full time

Job category/type
- Council



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