Fostering Team Manager

Role Responsibility

Due to new opportunities being created within Kent County Council’s Fostering Service we are seeking a dynamic and highly motivated Fostering Team Manager to join the West Kent Fostering Team who support and supervise our foster carers across Dartford, Sevenoaks, Tonbridge & Malling, Tunbridge Wells and Maidstone.

The role will have responsibility in leading and directing a team of professional and experienced Senior Practitioners, Social Workers, and Social Work Assistants to provide high quality supervision, support, and training to foster carers and their families to enable them to provide the best possible trauma informed care to our children and young people.

You will be part of an established fostering management team, who under a realignment of work and expansion of our fostering service, will sit alongside five other mainstream fostering support team managers and the fostering recruitment, training and assessment team manager, under one Head of Fostering to deliver a consistent and high quality fostering service, which includes the provision of care to disabled children, children and young people requiring emergency bed care, parent and child and older children moving from residential provision to fostering families. 

You will be expected to develop and motivate your team to fulfil the changing demands of the service through high quality social work supervision and compliance with the statutory requirements for Fostering, as well as having an interest and the capacity to contribute to the recruitment and retention of foster carers and service development. An understanding of children in care, foster carers and their families is essential to this role.

This is an exciting time to be joining the Kent Fostering Service as we expand to include the assessment and support of all kinship carers within our service, which will sit under another Head of Fostering, with whom we will work in partnership.

This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure application to the Disclosure and Barring service and registration as a qualified Social Worker with Social Work England.

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Closing date for this position is Friday 5^th January 2024

Interviews will be held on Tuesday 16^th January 2024

Contact Details

For an informal discussion about the post please contact Head of Fostering, Maria Cordrey between the 28^th December 2023 and 5^th January 2024.

maria.cordrey@kent.gov.uk

About the Company

KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county's working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds and faiths, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

Please note – if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.