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The Foster4 Board are now looking for an exceptional, experienced marketer with creative flair and commercial acumen, to act as the regional Marketing and Recruitment Manager. The post-holder will be required to continue to develop the service, covering a period of maternity for approximately 6-9 months. Organisation External Partner Organisation Foster 4 - Warrington Borough Council Location Cheshire Job Category Administration Salary Min £35,934 per annum Salary Max £39,782 per annum Hours per week 37 Weeks per year 52.143 Employment Type Fixed Term Contract Duration 31/01/2021 Closing Date 10/03/2020 Ref No W748 About the role: The post-holder will be responsible for the marketing of the Foster4 service and driving the recruitment of foster carers across the four Cheshire Local Authorities- Cheshire East Council, Cheshire West and Chester Council, Halton Borough Council and Warrington Borough Council, as well as undertaking further development work beyond the marketing and recruitment remit. The role will be based in Warrington, with regular travel across the region. You will manage a team of three full-time Fostering Support Workers (FSWs) and a 0.2FTE Marketing Assistant, who undertake the initial recruitment activity and work virtually across the four LAs. The FSWs are each based in the Warrington hub 2-4 days per week and within their linked Local Authority on the remaining days. You will manage the team face-to-face, via telephone and email, utilising regular supervisions and team meetings, promoting virtual working practices and accommodating the HR policies of the four LAs. As a collaboration of four LAs, Foster4 is also a major stakeholder in the wider, north-west-wide work undertaken by You Can Foster and Placements North West. Therefore, the post-holder will also be responsible for ensuring Foster4’s is acknowledged and for disseminating Foster4’s best practice on a regional level. As the role will involve the transportation, erection and staffing of the service’s promotional stand, particularly during the summer outreach events programme, access to a car and a good level of physical fitness will be required. Flexibility to undertake planned evening and weekend work, regular evening and weekend welfare checks and out-of-hours social media monitoring will also be required. DBS clearance is required. If you are a permanent WBC employee you will need to apply for this fixed term position as an internal secondment opportunity and will need to discuss this with your current line manager prior to applying. Warrington Borough Council is a Disability Confident employer About the service: Foster4 is a sector-leading, pioneering foster carer recruitment service, a collaboration between the four Local Authorities in Cheshire. The service was created with the aim of recruiting, retaining and supporting more Local Authority foster carers. By pooling resources and expertise, we have been able to significantly streamline the customer journey pipeline, strengthen the support offer to carers and become more commercially visible across the region. As a result, enquiries into fostering with us increased by over 40% in the first year. Ultimately, by making the Local Authority the number one service of choice for anyone considering fostering in Cheshire, Foster4 is vital in ensuring that, where appropriate, local children and young people have the best possible chances of being cared for by local people, in their own local area. This can contribute significantly to children and young people having stable, happy childhoods, early permanence and positive futures. We already have over 600 families who foster with us across the Foster4 LAs, who undertake an exceptional role in caring for our children and young people. We are ambitious to continue to develop a sector-leading service, further increasing our placement capacity, quality and stability. Now live for two years, it’s an exciting time to join our service and help us to continue to expand. Foster4 is well-established and wider development work is progressing rapidly. There are ambitions to further align the training, placement sufficiency and assessment functions across the four Local Authorities. A robust governance structure and work streams, made up of representatives from across the region, are driving this work forward to create an even better experience of foster care for children, young people and foster carers. Please note that this job is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

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