Team Manager – Fostering Recruitment and Assessment Team Grade 13 Hours: Full time (37 hours per week) At Dudley MBC we’re recruiting for a Team Managers to join our dynamic Fostering Service. Dudley Fostering Service is dedicated to recruiting and assessing the very best Carers to provide a warm and loving home for our children in care, both mainstream and connected/kinship. We are also committed to delivering high quality support and supervision to our Foster Carers and the children that they look after. We are based at Cable Plaza Dudley, which has the advantage of being co-located with the rest of children’s services. In this post you will report directly to the Service Manager for Fostering. You will also be part of a supportive management team within a restorative local authority that is committed to the training and development of its social work practitioners. The Service consists of two support teams and a recruitment and assessment team, with a management team that consists of three team managers, an adoption/permanence advisor and a panel advisor. The post which we are advertising for is the team manager for the recruitment and assessment team. Recruitment and Assessment Team Manager You will be responsible for: 5 FTE Social Workers 1 Advanced Practitioner 1 Recruitment and Retention/Marketing Officer Your team completes joint viability assessments for connected carers with the children’s social workers, as well as full connected persons assessments. The team is also responsible for recruitment and assessment of mainstream foster carers and has successfully increased our recruitment in this area in the last year. You and your team work closely with the two Fostering Support Teams. You and your team also work closely with the safeguarding teams and the court via our legal advisers. The three teams in the fostering service work closely together, and there is an expectation that teams and team managers help each other out when there are any peaks in work, which provides for a supportive and joined up service. As a Team Manager you will provide regular welfare and case supervision to the practitioners within your team. You will also have access to a wide range of training and development opportunities both in house and via our Centre for Professional Practice. As manager of this team you must be a qualified social worker with previous management experience or management ability. Previous experience of working with foster carers and fostering assessments is desirable. For more information please contact liz.berry@dudley.gov.uk So that we can demonstrate Dudley’s commitment to diversity and inclusion and to improve bias in the recruitment process that could create barriers for candidates. Your personal data will be anonymised when you apply, to ensure that you comply with our anonymisation process, please ensure you have removed your name and date of birth from any attachments prior to uploading them to your application. Online application forms will only be accepted for this vacancy, online facilities for jobs are available at public libraries within the Dudley Borough. All applicants must be able to provide documentation to prove their right to work in the UK. Please note: Dudley MBC does not currently offer sponsorship for candidates without the Right to Work in the UK. If you require support completing an online or paper application form and or interview techniques, please contact Dudley Adult and Community Learning on 01384 818 143 or acl@dudley.gov.uk who can support with Digital Skills and Job Applications. If you have a disability and require assistance in making an application please contact the HR Resourcing Team via HR.Resourcing@dudley.gov.uk If you are experiencing a problem whilst applying for a position, please follow the link below to the WM Jobs Help Page in the first instance https://help.wmjobs.co.uk/ If the WM Jobs Help Page does not resolve your issue then please contact the HR Resourcing Team via HR.Resourcing@dudley.gov.uk Dudley Council will check the information that you have provided against any details already held for accuracy and completeness. The Council will check, share and cross match your information both internally within the council and with external organisations to protect public funds and prevent or detect crime, only where the law allows us to do so. The Council’s full Privacy and Disclaimer Statement can be accessed on the website at https://www.dudley.gov.uk/privacy-disclaimer-statement/ N.B. We reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the advertised date should we receive a large number of applications LI-DMBC2019 Attached documents JD/PS Benefits List