Responsible Individual - Fostering Service - Yeading - Sanctuary Personal

Sanctuary Personnel Ltd; City Of London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A reputable recruitment agency is seeking a Responsible Individual for their Fostering Service. This permanent role, based in West London, offers a salary of up to £60,000 per annum. The ideal candidate will have a Social Work qualification, relevant legislation understanding, and experience in fostering and staff management. The agency prioritizes a child-centered approach and compliance with regulatory standards.

Qualifications

• At least two years of fostering experience within the last five years.
• At least one year of experience supervising and managing professional staff.

Responsibilities

• Ensure delivery of high-quality services to children and users.
• Act as the Responsible Individual to ensure compliance with statutory activities.
• Develop and monitor the annual business plan through agency reviews.

Skills

Social Work Qualification or equivalent

Understanding of relevant legislation

Leadership and management understanding

Supervising and managing professional staff

Education

Level 5 Leadership and Management or Level 4

Job description

Responsible Individual – Fostering Service

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Responsible Individual within the Fostering Service to work Full Time for a well-established & reputable Independent Fostering Agency based in West London.

The salary for this permanent Responsible Individual job is up to £60,000 per annum.

• To ensure the delivery of high-quality services that meets the needs of users and children.
• To act as the Responsible Individual on behalf of the agency to ensure compliance with all statutory and regulatory activities.
• To ensure we maintain a strong child centred approach in all that we do and enable the agency to best manage these user relationships.
• To develop an annual business plan, monitoring progress through the quarterly reviews of the agency.
• To effectively manage and predict the current and future financial requirements.
• To ensure that the service achieves Outstanding or Good in all Ofsted inspections.
• To develop effective relationships with key internal and external stakeholders including foster carers, foster carer representatives, local authorities, OFSTED and staff to embrace a strong culture of partnership working.
• To manage, develop and communicate foster carer capacity and capability in order to optimise the offering to customers.
• To communicate the vision, objectives and plans to staff and foster carers to achieve commitment and ownership.
• To ensure that operations issues are resolved in a fair, equitable and consistent manner to ensure that operations are conducted in compliance with regulatory and internal quality standards and systems.
• To ensure the highest standards and best practice in HR are followed at all times including workforce planning, safer recruitment, absence management, appraisal, supervision, conduct and capability.
• To review the organisational structure with respect to performance and direction of the company, utilising workforce data to analyse trends, review skills mix and ensure skills across the agency are matched with need to maximise efficiency and outcomes.
• Active planning in making positive and creative contributions with respect to cross cutting agendas – for example capital expenditure and projects.
• To effectively review, resource and align the support services in line with the needs of the core operation and customer requirements.
• To monitor and collate management information to support continuous improvement and the strategic planning for the service.

Requirements of this Responsible Individual role:

• A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Registered or eligible for registration.
• Level 5 – Leadership and management or at least level 4.
• At least two years of fostering experience within last five years.
• At least one year experience of supervising and manging professional staff.

Contact: This Responsible Individual job is advertised by Alex Moon; 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 has played a significant role in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards and 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.