Social Work - Head of Fostering - South Coast

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Liquid Personnel is currently recruiting for a Head of Fostering based on the South Coast. What will your responsibilities be? Lead the team of operations managers, social workers,

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OtherManagementSocial Work & CounselingSocial WorkerPediatric Social WorkerAdult Social WorkAdult Social Worker Mash/SafeguardingAdult Social Worker Support And Safeguarding TeamSocial Work

Liquid Personnel is currently recruiting for a Head of Fostering based on the South Coast.

Responsibilities

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→Lead the team of operations managers, social workers, and support staff to ensure children and young people in care reach their full potential.
→Oversee all services in the South region.
→Provide leadership to the team of social workers, offering support and training.
→Focus on producing a high-performing region, ensuring operational excellence and financial performance.
→Effectively deliver the organisational business plan.
→Work closely with the Assistant Director of Fostering to manage in a therapeutic and supportive manner, focusing on the potential and ability of the team.

What We Offer

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✓Car Allowance – £100 p/m car allowance to allow you to work flexibly from different locations.

✓Wellbeing – Access to therapeutic wellbeing sessions with our Therapeutic Services team.

✓Bonuses – Receive £200 (2 years), £400 (5 years) and £600 (10 years) service awards, plus up to £500 special recognition award for outstanding practice.

✓Medicash – Cashback for various medical appointments & treatments including optical and dental, as well as discounts on a range of online and instore retailers.

✓Life Assurance Scheme – Named beneficiaries qualify for 3x annual salary after successful completion of probationary period.

✓Increased Holiday – 25 days annual leave, rising to 28 days within 4 years, plus all bank holidays. Additional 2.5 days each year for your birthday, a health and wellbeing day and a half day for festive shopping.

What We Offer

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✓The role is offered subject to satisfactory references and an enhanced DBS check.

✓Compass is committed to being an equal opportunity employer, promoting diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

✓The organization values having talented employees with diverse backgrounds, cultures, perspectives, and experiences to support children and young people.

Requirements

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Have a car and a valid driving licence to facilitate travel to support your team and meetings nationally at other Compass offices.
Have experience working towards KPI’s focused on growth and carer recruitment and retention.
Ensure that the child protection and safeguarding practices and fully embedded across the region.
Have relevant Social Work Degree.
Have Social Work England registration,
Be eligible to work in the UK,
Have post-qualified experience.

Free DBS and compliance service
Twice weekly payroll and ‘Faster Pay’ service, getting you paid more quickly
Access to exclusive roles that aren’t available from other agencies
Free access to Liquid’s exclusive social work training and CPD portal
Your own dedicated consultant with extensive social work knowledge
Access to a wide selection of social work positions across the UK
“Refer a Friend” bonus – get £500 for each social worker you refer who we successfully place*
“Find your own job” bonus – get £250 for bringing your own position to us *

Liquid Personnel is an equal opportunities employer. Liquid Personnel Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. * Terms and conditions apply to our bonus schemes.

Reasonable Adjustments:

If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity by contacting our team. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.

We are unable to support or accept applications from candidates who are residents within the Red or Amber list of the Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England, based on the World Health Organisation (WHO) Workforce Support and Safeguard List.