Role: Team Manager - Fostering, Recruitment and Assessment Team (FRAT)
Salary: Grade L - £56,733 - £59,772 plus retention allowance of £4,971 per annum and zones 2&3 travel card
Contract: Permanent
Team Manager – Fostering, Recruitment & Assessment Team (FRAT)
Are you a passionate and highly motivated social worker, with leadership experience in fostering and assessments? Do you have the creativity and drive to inspire others to change the lives of children in our care through fostering?
There is a local and national shortage of foster carers, and we are committed to tackling this challenge. As part of key initiatives to achieve our fostering sufficiency needs, we are seeking a Fostering Manager to lead our efforts in attracting and assessing prospective foster carers and supporting prospective foster carers through panel to approval.
You will bring a strong understanding of the fostering recruitment process, excellent assessment skills, and the ability to engage and motivate prospective carers and your team. With a creative approach to recruitment, you’ll use your social media awareness and marketing skills and work with others to develop innovative campaigns, ensuring we reach the right people in the right ways.
You are not alone, collaboration is key in this role—you will work closely with internal teams, external partners, and stakeholders to strengthen our recruitment strategy and drive positive change. Tower Hamlets is part of Local Community Foster Greater London East.
If you’re ready to make a real impact and help shape the future of fostering, we’d love to hear from you!
Application Process:
To apply for this exciting opportunity, please complete the application by 21st April 2025, outlining your relevant experience and why you are interested in the role.
Interviews will take place on 28th or 29th April 2025, please hold these dates.
For more information, please contact Nji Oranu – nji.oranu@towerhamlets.gov.uk
Additional Details
Tower Hamlets vision for our borough is that: people are aspirational, independent and have equal access to opportunities; we are a borough that our residents are proud of and love to live in; and we are a dynamic, outcomes-based council using digital innovation and partnership working to respond to the changing needs of our borough. We want people who aspire to our TOWER values: Together; Open; Willing; Excellent; Respect.
Tower Hamlets has a zero-tolerance approach to, and works to eradicate, all forms of discrimination on the basis of race, sex, disability, age, religion or belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital status, status as a civil partner, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy and maternity and looks to employ a diverse workforce representative of those groups. We recognise that people can also be disadvantaged by their social and economic circumstances, so we will work to eliminate discrimination and disadvantage caused by social class.
We are a Disability Confident Employer, which means applicants who declare a disability and meet the essential criteria for the post are guaranteed an interview. Care experience has also been adopted by the Council as an additional protected characteristic.
We welcome applicants interested in flexible working arrangements and also applicants who live in the borough.
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This post is exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to this post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) helps employers make safer recruitment decisions and prevent unsuitable people from working with vulnerable groups, including children. It replaces the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) and Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA).
Tower Hamlets offers the best of London in one borough.
We believe the best place for children is to be raised within their own families, immediate or wider, wherever it is safe and appropriate to do so. Social Workers are at the core of our work with children and families. Our approach is about enabling social workers to build relationships and strengthen families by working with people in a compassionate and understanding way.
We are determined to continue our journey of improvement and deliver outstanding services for children and families of Tower Hamlets, and our offer to staff includes:
The opportunity to work in a richly diverse, challenging and supportive inner London Borough
Competitive remuneration package
Investing in the workforce with end-to-end career support
A manageable and diverse caseload and good quality reflective supervision
Steps to Success, coaching, and bespoke learning and development support from the Learning Academy to develop your practice, with a clear framework for career development and progression into leadership.
Travel card/season ticket loan, Cycle to Work scheme, Local Government Pension Scheme
Opportunities for agile/flexible working
Discounted gym membership, access to free eye test, rent deposit scheme and & You at Work discounts as well as many other benefits
Generous annual leave package and wellbeing service
Smarter Working with new modern technology
If you have any questions about applying for this role, please contact Saima Tahsin, Project Officer at Saima.Tahsin@towerhamlets.gov.uk. For an informal discussion about working in Supporting Families at Tower Hamlets please contact Sam Nair, our Principal Social Worker at Sam.Nair@towerhamets.gov.uk