Salary: £28,014 - £42,021 (pro rata)
Location: South Midlands
Hours: 18 hours pw
Status: Fixed term
The Fostering Network is the UK’s leading fostering charity. We are dedicated to creating a better future for fostered children and young people. We bring together everyone who is involved in their lives, leading, inspiring, motivating and supporting them to make foster care better. Together with our members and supporters we are a powerful catalyst for change, and we’ve been shaping and influencing the fostering agenda for more than 40 years.
A unique opportunity has arisen for motivated and energetic individual to join a well-established team of home workers providing an independent Advice and Mediation service to foster carers and fostering staff in the South Midlands (covering Milton Keynes, Luton, Oxfordshire and Children First [Northamptonshire] local authority fostering services.
If you are a qualified social worker or have a similar qualification with experience of the fostering community and you are passionate about ensuring that foster carers receive good quality support and are treated fairly at all stages of their fostering career then we would be interested in hearing from you.
You must be able and willing to travel widely across these local authorities, have excellent communication skills, good powers of argument, persuasion and negotiation, and an ability to make effective relationships with foster carers and staff.
Closing date is 25 June 2021
Interviews will take place week beginning 5 July via ZOOM
To apply please see the 'How to apply' section and please email your application form to recruitment@fostering.net.
Please note: CVs are not accepted.
The Fostering Network is committed to equal opportunities and welcomes applications from all sections of the community and especially encourage applications from groups which are underrepresented. All applicants are treated equally and selected on the basis of individual merit and ability to meet the requirements of the role.
Additionally, we consider family-friendly flexible working arrangements within the role description.
