Director for Children and Young People

As the new Director for Children and Young People, here in North Yorkshire I am excited to announce significant investment in our children and families service. More capacity. More prevention. Better outcomes. Be part of a service investing in family help and sustainable practice. Across local government, children's services are facing unprecedented demand and funding constraint. Many organisations are responding by reducing capacity and narrowing ambition. We have chosen a different path. In response to the Families First Partnership Programme reforms, we in NYC are seeking to expand out teams in order to drive the changes of supporting children and their families at the earliest opportunity, right time, right person. We are making a significant and sustained investment in our workforce-creating new and additional capacity across children's social care, which will become Family help and our Multi agency child protections teams. At a time when others are making savings, we are growing our teams because we believe that safe, effective and relationship based practice relies on practitioners having the time, support and professional space to do their best work, with children. Hear more from El Mayhew Corporate Director Children and Young People service outline our investment plans, about our children services and new career opportunities visit: https://www.northyorks.gov.uk/cswl-jobs About the role The successful candidate will join a county fostering service committed to developing excellent practice in line with the Fostering Regulations and National Minimum Standards. You will need to be committed to developing excellent outcomes for children through creating productive working relationships with a wide range of services to support our fostering families. Within this role, you will be responsible for the supervision and day to day support of a team of Fostering Social Workers and Fostering Support Workers who support North Yorkshire foster carers. We are looking for an experienced social worker who is ready to take the next step in their professional career or someone who is currently a Practice Supervisor wanting to join our team who has substantial case management experience, who can supervise on a day-to-day basis with effective social work practice to a busy team.

• Qualified Social Worker with current Social Work England registration.
• Experience in fostering and a strong understanding of the assessment process.
• Knowledge of the impact of childhood adverse trauma.
• Supervisory or management experience is advantageous.
• Commitment to building positive working relationships with fostering families and partner agencies.
• The successful candidate will join a county fostering service committed to developing excellent practice in line with the National Fostering Regulations and National Minimum Standards.