Role Responsibility
Kent Fostering has a clear vision for the increased recruitment of foster carers from the local community. It is our ambition to enhance our support offer to Kent Foster Carers and improve our retention, building their skills and knowledge to safeguard our children and achieve positive outcomes and placement stability for them. In this role, you will provide high-quality supervision, support, and training to foster carers and their families. You will work alongside the fostering assessment teams to recruit foster carers across the county. You will support foster carers to understand the meaning of their child’s behaviour and to consider what might help to both manage the behaviour and sustain the relationship with the foster child. This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification. This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service and to registration as a qualified Social Worker with Social Work England. Interview date: Thursday 20.02.25 at St Peters House, Broadstairs. For further information on this role, please contact Sheila Will on 03000 418795 or sheila.will@kent.gov.uk. About the Company
KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county’s working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds, faiths, and those with caring responsibilities, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work. Please note – if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.
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Kent Fostering has a clear vision for the increased recruitment of foster carers from the local community. It is our ambition to enhance our support offer to Kent Foster Carers and improve our retention, building their skills and knowledge to safeguard our children and achieve positive outcomes and placement stability for them. In this role, you will provide high-quality supervision, support, and training to foster carers and their families. You will work alongside the fostering assessment teams to recruit foster carers across the county. You will support foster carers to understand the meaning of their child’s behaviour and to consider what might help to both manage the behaviour and sustain the relationship with the foster child. This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification. This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service and to registration as a qualified Social Worker with Social Work England. Interview date: Thursday 20.02.25 at St Peters House, Broadstairs. For further information on this role, please contact Sheila Will on 03000 418795 or sheila.will@kent.gov.uk. About the Company
KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county’s working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds, faiths, and those with caring responsibilities, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work. Please note – if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.
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