Head of Fostering
6 days ago
**About The Role**:
Are you an experienced social work manager looking for career progression and a new opportunity to progress to senior management?
Compass Fostering are recruiting for a Head of Fostering to join and lead our experienced and successful team of ops managers and social workers plus support staff to ensure that the children and young people in our care reach their full potential.
You will be based at our **Syston **office and will be responsible for our **Central **region.
You will be responsible for leading the team of social workers, offering support and training to social workers with a focus on producing a high performing region, offering operational excellence, financial performance and to effectively deliver the organisational business plan.
You will be working closely with the Assistant Director of Fostering who is focused on finding a real “people person” who is prepared to manage in a therapeutic and supportive manner with a focus on the potential and ability of the team in place.
Regional travel is part of the role to support your team and national travel will be required to visit other Compass offices. A car and a valid driving licence are essential to the role. You will be paid an annual car allowance to facilitate this.
Your new role will involve you working towards KPI’s focused on growth and carer recruitment and retention, all the time offering outstanding care with the best possible outcomes for the children as the main priority, ensuring that the child protection and safeguarding practices and fully embedded.
You are required to have a relevant Social Work Degree.
Benefits of joining Compass Fostering
- **Career Development** - We offer many career paths, recognising hard work & supporting you into senior roles.
- **Competitive Salary **- using structured pay grades based on your training and experience.
- **Car Allowance** - £100 p/m car allowance to allow you to work flexibly from different locations.
- **Wellbeing** - Access to therapeutic wellbeing sessions with our Therapeutic Services team.
- **Bonuses** - receive £200 service award on your two-year anniversary, plus up to £500 special recognition service for outstanding practice.
- **Awards** - The chance to win up to £150 in vouchers every month from our REACH Awards
- **Medicash****:
- Cashback for various medical appointments & treatments with MediCash
- **Life Assurance Scheme** - 3 x annual salary after successful completion of your probation review.
- **Increased Holiday** - 27 days (including birthday and wellbeing day) increasing gradually to 30 hours after 4 years’ service.
CFHP
**About Us**:
Compass Fostering is a part of our wider community, providing fostering, residential, educational, and therapeutic services for the young people in our care.
We are a progressive, child-centred service, putting the wellbeing of our children and young people at the front and centre of everything we do.
We are proud to offer good and outstanding services in all of our regions across England and Wales, championing our staff teams who help us towards these outcomes.
Compass are a values-based children’s service, meaning that everything we do is underpinned by our REACH approach. It stands for Resilience, Education, Acceptance, Child-centred and Holistic; it’s a framework based on resilience theory, attachment theory and aspects of social pedagogy. We believe that this helps us to provide bespoke, consistent therapeutic care for each child, whilst supporting our staff and foster carers to ensure every young person has the best possible future.
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