Fostering Recruitment Manager in Essex, Essex

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Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Fostering Recruitment Manager to work Full Time for TACT Fostering, based in Essex.

The salary for this permanent Fostering Recruitment Manager job is up to £49,690 per annum.

Main duties:

• Set and oversee the expectations in recruiting foster carers to high standards, aiming to promote positive outcomes for children.
• Manage local recruitment in line with the local recruitment strategy and analyse needs to inform recruitment activities, ensuring alignment between local and national recruitment strategies.
• Develop and identify applicants who can offer specialist fostering such as parent and child or complex needs placements.
• Make decisions on suitability of enquirers to proceed to application.
• Provide an ongoing customer focused relationship with applicants which can anticipate and resolve potential challenges throughout the assessment process.
• Supervise and manage the Fostering Recruitment Officer and / or Assessing Social Workers.
• Work in partnership with Fostering Information Advisors and Marketing & Fostering Recruitment Manager to ensure there is adequate protected time and space to receive qualified leads as per organisational minimum requirements.
• Recruit, supervise and manage a team of independent social workers to undertake fostering assessments.
• Undertake and gather regular customer feedback to inform continual improvement of recruitment practice.
• Respond to customer complaints in consultation with the line Manager in an efficient and timely manner.
• Work across regions to cover for other Fostering Recruitment Managers as required to meet the business needs.

Benefits:

• 31 days paid holiday plus 8 annual bank holidays.

• Progression to salary target rate upon completion of 18 months service.

• 45p per mile for business travel.

• Flexible working arrangements (including compressed hours, flexibility around core hours, volunteer days policy).

• Family friendly policies.

• Homeworking ‘bundle’ including annual allowance, IT equipment and a loan for home office set up.

• Help@Hand Employee Assistance Programme (including CBT counselling, 24/7 remote GP appointments, physiotherapy, mental health support and second opinions on serious diagnosis).

• An hour a week of live, expert led activities through the Annual Employee wellbeing Programme.

• Menopause Policy and free Menopause Clinician Appointments.

• Stakeholder Pension Scheme (salary sacrifice).

• Fantastic learning and development opportunities for all roles.

Requirements of this Fostering Recruitment Manager role:

• At least 2 years experience of being a Senior Supervising Social Worker.

• A social Work Qualification or equivalent.

• Understanding of relevant legislation.

• Registered or eligible for registration.

Contact:
This Fostering Recruitment Manager job is advertised by Stefan Garrett; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.

Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).

With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

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. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.