Stockport Council
Location
Stockport, Greater Manchester | United Kingdom
Job description
Fostering Independent Reviewing Officer
MB4 (£42,403 - £48,474)
37 Hours, Full time
Permanent
Hybrid – Stockport Civic Complex and homeworking
Application Deadline: 17th April 2024
Shortlisting Date: 18th April 2024
Interview Date: 25th April 2024
Interview Type: Face to Face
Your Role
We are looking for a Fostering Independent Reviewing Officer to join our team. Key responsibilities include:
• To chair foster carer reviews for all approved foster carers in Stockport, both mainstream and kinship carers.
• To provide a robust quality assurance role and promote excellence in this area of practice.
• To maintain compliance with fostering Regulations and Standards.
• To work effectively with the fostering service to improve and maintain best practice at all times.
About You
You will need to have experience of working within a busy fostering service ideally at management level. You will need the ability and confidence to work in a fast-paced environment, a proven track record of prioritising workloads and be passionate about providing the best possible care for our local children. Ideally you will have experience from previously working in an IRO role.
You will be committed to your professional development, take up the vast amount of learning opportunities on offer and be excited about being a part of Stockport Family.
About Us
As an Independent Reviewing Officer, you will sit with the IRO team although have close links with the fostering service.
The IRO team sits within the Safeguarding and Learning Service and alongside colleagues from Workforce Development and the Children and Adult’s Safeguarding Partnerships. We are an enthusiastic, supportive and experienced team and are keen to share our skills and knowledge - and learn new ones too!
You will be joining a well-established successful fostering service who welcome creativity and innovation. The fostering service has an established management structure and due to recent investment three well-staffed teams, kinship care team, mainstream support and supervision team and the mainstream recruitment team. We have approximately 225 approved fostering families. Stockport have a well embedded Mockingbird model with 5 constellations fully operational. The Service Lead is accessible as are the wider social care teams and there is a well embedded restorative model and Stockport Families approach to service delivery.
In Stockport Family we value diversity and the unique perspectives that each of us bring and are committed to recruiting a workforce that is representative of the diverse needs of our communities.
What do social workers say about working in Stockport?
“Working in Stockport makes you love social work again. From the moment I started as a Senior Practitioner in Stockport, I fell in love with my job again. This is real social work. The term ‘restorative practice’ genuinely means something here and everyone from front line workers to senior management care about their staff”.
At Stockport Council we are one ambitious team on a mission to create opportunities for everyone who lives, works and spends time in the borough. Working at Stockport Council means contributing to one of the most thriving towns in the North. We’re keen to recruit people with the right values and behaviours that can help us ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do.
We are proud to be recognised under the Good Employment Charter as an organisation committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues. As members of the charter, we have been recognised as a great place to work for all colleagues and pledge to pay the real living wage, engage staff in key decisions and endorse fair and flexible working conditions.
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If you would like to find out more about the role please contact Vaunda Taylor at vaunda.taylorstockport.gov.uk for an informal discussion about the role.
The successful applicant’s appointment will be subject to satisfactory pre-employment clearances including a Disclosure and Barring Service check.
Stockport Council holds a Visa sponsorship licence but this can only be used for certain roles and this campaign does not qualify.
Stockport Council is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive workforce culture - a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and communities to join our workforce.
We want our employees to have a good work life balance and in many job roles we can offer a range of flexible/hybrid working arrangements. We also have inclusive employment policies and staff engagement forums to support our diverse workforce. We will listen to, learn from, and develop our workforce.
Please note that we have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers and ex-military personnel. As part of the Guaranteed Assessment Scheme you will therefore be guaranteed an interview if you meet both the criteria for the scheme and the essential job role criteria.
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£42.4k per annum
