Fostering Recruitment Coordinator
4 weeks ago
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, 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 team of Fostering Recruitment Coordinators (x6) will
- Work within the Foster North West hub based in Blackburn with Darwen and be the first point of contact for all prospective foster carers across the ‘North West’ region.
- 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.
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
- REQ02567
Date posted
- 01/02/2024
Application closing date
- 14/02/2024
Location
- Blackburn with Darwen
Salary
- Grade F, SCP 17-23, £28,770 - £32,076 per annum
Package
- There are 6 roles available. 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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