Senior Practitioner

**Senior Practitioner - Fostering Services**:
**Closing date**: 05/02/2025

**Reference**: REQ105806
- 37 hours / Permanent
- 41,511 - 43,693 *
- Penmorfa, Aberaeron
- *All salary values are pro-rata.
- About the role

This position qualifies for a market supplement payment of £200 per month. Please note this additional payment will be reviewed on 31 March 2025.

We are looking for an individual with strong leadership skills to lead and motivate staff. The post holder will be solution focused and have experience of working in a fostering service.

As a Senior Practitioner - Fostering Services/ you will support the Registered Manager (RM) to lead and promote the Fostering Service, ensuring the growth of in-house Foster Carers, Supported Lodgings and When I’m Ready provision through focused and targeted recruitment and retention activity. To manage the operational activity of the Service, embedding best practice throughout. To promote professional standards by developing outcome-focused teams that understand their contribution to the Service and the wider success of the Through Age Wellbeing strategy.

You will be responsible for quality assurance of assessment, supporting the RM on the reviewing of a range of policies and procedures to enable you and the team to deliver a high standard of service to our carers.

We offer excellent induction and ongoing training opportunities, including supporting you to attain further qualifications.

In exchange for your skills and commitment, we will offer you a range of employee benefits including flexible hours scheme, competitive annual leave allowance and a generous pension contribution scheme.

In addition, we are committed to developing our people and will not only provide support to enable you to quickly and confidently take ownership of this role’s key areas of responsibility but also, we are committed to supporting your development in order that you can progress your career with us.

We believe work-life balance is very important. To support you in achieving this, you will have access to the following discretionary benefits:

- Hybrid Working: Subject to certain conditions being met, you may choose to work from home or in an office location.

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- What we offer
- Work-life balance
- Lifestyle savings scheme
- Generous employer pension scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Learning and development
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