Priority Candidates will be considered in the first instance Wigan Life Centre South College Avenue Wigan WN1 1NJ Salary: Grade 11, £47,754 - £51,802 per annum.
37 hours per week Your role: You will provide advice and guidance to our weekly fostering panel to ensure compliance with regulations and National Minimum Standards.
You will undertake the final quality assurance of fostering assessments and annual reviews to ensure they are compliant and of a good quality.
You will facilitate communication between the service and the panel and ensure feedback is gathered and used to further improve practice.
You will facilitate panel development days on a regular basis.
Your focus will be on safeguarding and stability for children, whilst ensuring practice is regulatory compliant.
You will be a child focussed leader with a focus on improving experiences and outcomes for children and young people.
You will be a team player and innovative problem solver, able to work using initiative and have strong interpersonal skills for use with our foster carers, partner agencies, social workers and local communities.
About you: You will have experience of working with foster carers or with children who are looked after.
You will be a passionate and motivated leader who appreciates the importance of supporting some of our most vulnerable children to be cared for within fostering families.
You will have excellent management and leadership skills.
You will be able to work using initiative and have strong interpersonal skills to not only engage current and potential carers, but to build robust relationships with colleagues and panel members.
You will be a team player and be able to see the strengths in all you encounter with a keen commitment to problem solve innovatively.
About us: Wigan Council has been voted 'Overall Council of the Year' at the APSE (Association for Public Service Excellence) Awards.
We are signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment ensuring that your service will be continuous or 'unbroken' between the supporting organisations.
We are making great strides here in Wigan to make our fostering service even better.
We have six fostering team in Wigan, providing a breadth of experience and opportunity across different specialisms.
Our fostering leadership team is strong and experienced providing great peer support and challenge.
We have lots to celebrate and we want to further develop a consistent trauma informed, therapeutic approach in all our carers.
Have a look at what one of our foster carers has to say in our short film and listen to Supported through the Storm poem, inspired by our Million Voices group.
See links below.
Wigan is a great place to work, and as a Local Authority, we truly value and recognise our staff as its greatest asset.
We are embedding the Family Safeguarding Approach in our Children's Services.
We are ambitious about our offer to Wigan's children and young people and our shared goal is to ensure that young people have accommodation options that prepare them for adulthood.
Through our "BeWigan" behaviours, Be Courageous, Be Accountable and Be Positive, we actively encourage innovation, strive to deliver outstanding services and celebrate our successes.
Here at Wigan, we are proud to support flexible working patterns, when the service can accommodate this.
We also take a blended approach to where we work, depending on the work we do.
This may include working from home, the office, or the community.
We like to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits click here to find out more about working for #TeamWigan.
Wigan Council prides itself on equality, inclusion and promoting diversity within the borough and aims to recruit a workforce that reflects our diverse communities.
We invest in training and developing our staff, in a positive learning environment, and aim to be a consciously inclusive employer.
We welcome applications from everybody in the community and would particularly encourage applicants from our underrepresented groups to apply.
At Wigan, it is really important to us that applicants demonstrate our Team Wigan behaviours, and we do all we can to make sure that everyone feels like they belong.
We have guidance in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process To be appointed to this role you must be able to prove your right to work in the UK.
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Please note, at present we are not a licenced sponsor.
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Interview date: To Be Confirmed This position is subject to Enhanced Disclosure Procedures plus child barred list check The employer is committed to safeguarding To view the details relating to this position, please click the links below: