Fostering Systems and Data Lead

4 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: 15th February 2024**

**Interview Date: w/c 19th 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, welcome 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 Fostering Systems and Data Lead will:

- Be a valued member of the Foster North West Hub and be responsible for establishing data collection processes and reporting on key performance indicators.
- Collate, analyse and interpret different types of data, information and intelligence, and provide specialist advice and guidance on methods of data collection and analysis including developing and responding to the strategic outcomes framework.
- Manage and develop the hub website and its maintenance, domain name, shared landing page and customer portal.
- Work to consider the development of an interface between existing case management systems or a unique standalone system capable of the reporting requirements, and ensure the accuracy and integrity of the system.

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:
**Job details**:
Job reference
- REQ02570

Date posted
- 01/02/2024

Application closing date
- 14/02/2024

Location
- Blackburn with Darwen

Salary
- Grade H, SCP 29-33, £37,336 - £41,418 per annum

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

Contractual hours
- 37

Basis
- Full time

Job category/type
- Council


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