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Bolton, United Kingdom Bolton Council Full time

Grade: K scp 39 £47,420 to scp 43 £51,515 + essential car user allowance
Contract: Permanent
Qualification: CSS/CQSW/DipSW
Hours: 37pw


Ask us about flexible working options to fit with your work/life balance - #HappytoTalkFlexible


The Role- up to £51,515 per annum
To apply please explain how you meet the requirements of the Job Description/ Person Specification

The role is an exciting opportunity to build on our highly regarded Fostering Service, which works with mainstream Foster Carers.

The role will include the supervision of Social Workers and a Family Support Worker, joint responsibly for the allocation of work, the monitoring of service provision, assisting with overseeing the recruitment aspect of the team when required and also supervising the Deputy Manager who is part of the service.

Development work and providing a fresh perspective to well-established routines and practice is welcomed

The role offers hybrid working in conjunction the Deputy Team Manager to ensure that the management responsibility for the team is provided daily and out of hours where necessary.

The team prides itself on close teamwork, a high level of commitment to the service and good staff retention.

The value base of the Fostering Team is an honest, trustworthy and nurturing approach, assessing potential applicants and offering support under the Fostering framework.

We work closely with all the children services across social care and work equally as closely with other services that we provide a provision to.


About You
You need to be Social Work qualified with experience in fostering, you would benefit from some understanding of Family and Friends/Connected Persons as you will also work closely with this manager and may be required to oversee this team when the Manager for this service is on annual leave.

You will have some experience of managing students, professionals and operational teams.

You need the passion to inspire others and to not only maintain what works well, but to also to create new ways of working to promote the growth and relevance of the service.

You will be dynamic, creative and innovative and prepared to work with Mainstream Foster Carers.

You will also have an insight into the care and support needed by our Foster Carers and be prepared to “go the extra mile” for our carers.


About Us
This is your opportunity to join us at an exciting time as we have strong ambitions for the borough.

Bolton is a great place to work. We are a welcoming organisation that wants to contribute to a place where people feel active, connected and prosperous. We are passionate about improving the outcomes and experience of Bolton people. We want Bolton to be a vibrant place built on strong cohesive communities, successful businesses and healthy, engaged residents.

As an employer we want to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment, by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits, including discounts and exclusive gym membership prices and salary sacrifice schemes. In addition, we offer a generous annual leave allowance, flexible work opportunities, access to a Pension Scheme, as well as a range of employee wellbeing and support services.

Our Values are really important to us, read all about them below, along with all our great staff benefits, the job description/person specification for the role and the important legal bits too.

Ready to apply? Then please click Apply and explain how you meet the points on the person specification. (use for open box or person spec points)

Within Greater Manchester, local authorities have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers, carers, and ex-military personnel. Please see greater.jobs for further information before you apply.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An Enhanced DBS with check of relevant barred list is therefore required for this post.

This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English as per the person specification.

This organisation has signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. That means we will recognise your continuous or ‘unbroken’ service in any Greater Manchester local authority or NHS organisation, Transport for Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service or Greater Manchester Combined Authority, giving you access to our service-related benefits.

For more information about working for Bolton Council, please see greater.jobs; for advice and support with your application, contact recruitment@bolton.gov.uk