Registered Manager (Service Manager) Fostering

What will you be doing?

You will be responsible for leading and motivating the Fostering Service in delivering a high-quality service to our cared for children and the foster carers who look after them. Your focus will be on ensuring all children are well supported to maximise their life chances through the recruitment, training and support to skilled and knowledgeable foster carers.. This is a key operational and strategic management role and an essential part of our improvement journey.

Driving high performance and high quality practice, this is a position where you can be extremely innovative and creative and work closely in partnership with the workforce, our foster carers and key stakeholders to take forward new ideas and continually develop the service.

This role is pivotal to leading an IFA on an improvement journey to achieve outstanding services alongside the already established strong and stable leadership team here at NCT.

About you

This is a great career opportunity for an experienced manager with a good understanding of and background in children’s social care. You will be a strong and dynamic leader with proven success in inspiring and motivating others to continuously improve the quality and effectiveness of services.

You will need a good knowledge and understanding of the relevant legislation, guidance and Social Care Common Inspection Framework (SCCIF) which governs Children's Social Care and Fostering Services and will ideally have leadership experience within an independent fostering agency having led services through regulatory inspections.

You will hold children at the centre of your practice when developing fostering services to achieve the best outcomes for children, whilst also developing staff to be awesome practitioners.

Your strategic mindset will assist you in identifying ongoing improvements and implement changes across several teams and drive and sustain high performance across a large service. You will have experience in change management

Possessing strong management and coaching skills, you will thrive in an environment where you are able to use your creative talents and make a genuine difference to service delivery and the workforce.

We are looking for someone wanting to make a difference, working with skilled, knowledgeable, passionate and responsive colleagues within Children’s Social Care and with partner agencies. 

Please submit your CV and a supporting statement

Talk to us

We welcome the opportunity to speak to any interested candidates so please feel free to email: Olivia Ives @  Olivia.Ives@NCTrust.co.uk and they can agree a mutually agreeable time to call you

Our benefits

We are committed to continuous improvement, building a skilled, knowledgeable, and flexible workforce alongside promoting innovation and creativity whilst keeping children, young people and families at the heart of all we do.

We really value our workforce and offer you a great benefits package including:

• 2 Day Induction Programme
• 2 days Signs of Safety training (social care colleagues)
• Extensive Learning & Development and career development opportunities
• Flexible and family working arrangements including enhanced maternity benefits
• A permanent, supportive and inclusive management team where you will be empowered to make good professional decisions
• Local government Pension Scheme
• Heavily subsidised town centre car parking scheme
• Employee Discount Scheme
• 27 days’ annual leave, plus 8 Bank Holidays (pro rata for part time) and an additional 5 days – dependent upon Grade after 5 years’ service
• Opportunity to purchase up to 25 days
• Employee Discount Schemes
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Monthly quality supervision
• SWE Registration paid yearly (social care colleagues)

About us

Northamptonshire Children’s Trust was established in November 2020 to deliver Children’s Services to the newly established North and West Northants County Councils. The Trust is wholly owned and funded but operationally independent from the Councils; this provides the organisation with unique opportunities to explore new ways of working and to be more agile and adaptable in its approach to service delivery. We are developing a culture that allows the very highest quality of professional practice to flourish and evolve, delivering at the cutting edge of new innovation.