Assistant Manager Fostering & Communications Lead

at  Wiltshire Council

Salary: £43,421 - £45,441
Hours per week: 37 hours
Temporary/Fixed term: 12 months
Interview date: Thursday 11 April 2024
Fostering Regional Recruitment and Retention Hub - Transforming Young Lives
Be part of the leadership of our innovative virtual fostering recruitment and retention hub! This remote role includes occasional travel within the Southwest Region, with flexibility for evening and weekend work.
Join the new Southwest Regional Fostering Hub led by Wiltshire and Cornwall County Councils. This hub streamlines foster care recruitment across the region, bringing local authorities together to increase foster carer numbers and improve the lives and outcomes of children in care across the region.

The key features of the Hub are to:

• Enhance the journey from enquiry to application.
• Provide a streamlined journey to allocation to a local authority application, and approval.
• Amplify enquiries and establish an evidence base for impactful marketing strategies.
• Introduce a regional approach to support local authority fostering recruitment.
• Co-produce the design ensuring a good user journey through the system.

We seek a candidate with exceptional interpersonal skills to foster positive relationships across the team and lead on the Hub’s recruitment and communications campaign. Ideal candidates will bring experience in fostering recruitment or related fields, along with experience of fostering recruitment campaigns.
If you would like to be part of this exciting and transformative project, then apply today!

Please refer the Job description for details