Salary: £31,744 - £47,616 plus £3,737 London Weighting, if applicable
Location: Flexible
Hours: 36
Contract type: Permanent
The Fostering Network is the UK’s leading fostering charity. We are dedicated to creating a better future for fostered children and young people. We bring together everyone who is involved in their lives, leading, inspiring, motivating and supporting them to make foster care better. Together with our members and supporters we are a powerful catalyst for change, and we’ve been shaping and influencing the fostering agenda for more than 40 years.
We are seeking a highly motivated, child centred individual to lead our advice and information strategy across the UK. Your role will be to manage, develop and support our 4 nation advice and information services for foster carers, fostering service staff, prospective foster carers and others across the sector needing advice and information about fostering related issues.
You will ensure the development and delivery of high quality information and advice provision and work closely with policy, campaign and practice colleagues to ensure policy and campaign priorities, training and publications, and future areas of work are underpinned and driven by accurate information and evidence.
You will have excellent inter-personal skills, with the ability to build and maintain collaborative working relationships with colleagues, volunteers, members, families and stakeholders.
Your application will be assessed against the person specification attached to the job description.
For a confidential discussion, please contact Sara Lurie, Director of Practice on 0141 204 1400
Closing date: Thursday 13 May at 9:00 PM
Interview date: Monday, 24 May, by Zoom
To apply please see the 'How to apply' section and please email your application form to recruitment@fostering.net.
Please note: CVs are not accepted.
The Fostering Network is committed to equal opportunities and welcomes applications from all sections of the community and especially encourage applications from groups which are underrepresented. All applicants are treated equally and selected on the basis of individual merit and ability to meet the requirements of the role.
Additionally, we consider family-friendly flexible working arrangements within the role descriptions.
