In East Riding we are Stronger Together: ‘You can, I can, We can’.

Are you the missing piece of our jigsaw?

Area Manager for Fostering.

East Riding of Yorkshire Council is seeking an innovative individual, skilled in inclusive leadership to join our rated GOOD Ofsted; Children & Families Services team.

As an Area Manager you will lead your teams based in Beverley. The teams are motivated to recruit and retain our Foster Carers.

The successful candidate will be a qualified registered social worker and will join a dedicated team of managers who are responsible for the delivery of statutory fostering services to our children and young people.

You must demonstrate a good understanding of fostering regulations and have experience of managing teams through change and innovation.

As Area Manager you will be required to analyse data, monitor quality assurance and report to our Senior Leadership Team.

ERYC are rated GOOD by Ofsted. Join us on our journey to OUTSTANDING.

This role requires someone dynamic, creative and has excellent interpersonal skills. The ability to work independently, be a motivational leader and encourage individuality whilst delivering our organisational goals.

Our Fostering teams recruit and support our mainstream foster carers and connected carers to deliver an excellent level of care with our children and young people.

We understand the importance of equipping you with the tools to build meaningful relationships and make lasting changes to those we work with and who need us most.

We support our social worker colleagues to deliver fantastic social work and champion social worker wellbeing with a strong focus on learning and development through our Stronger Together approach. Senior leaders are visible and approachable, and practitioners feel valued, listened to and part of the whole service.

There are interesting and exciting opportunities for everyone, which creates a variety of career pathways you can explore with us here at East Riding.

Our ‘grow your own’ approach to social work training, social work apprenticeship degree route alongside the development of the workforce academy, practice standards and quality assurance framework has created a solid foundation for consistent practice to be developed and has contributed to retention and recruitment.

We have created a bespoke practice model that reflects and connects our vision, our value base and our behaviour as one East Riding of Yorkshire approach to working with children, young people and their families, which is nurtured and grown from within East Riding of Yorkshire CYPSSS and owned by our workforce.

We remain committed to Signs of Safety as a practice framework, but this is set within a much wider, values based, model of practice that clearly connects Signs of Safety with the East Riding value base, and our overall approach to making and sustaining relationships with children, families, carers and communities. Our Stronger Together approach is strengths based, solution-focussed, and relational recognising that the very best work with families takes place within the context of excellent, collaborative relationships.

A well embedded model ensures we all have something to centre our practice on so that, while the work may be different, all of our teams are grounded in the same values, beliefs, theories and approaches. Having a well-developed practice model helps to create a common language for the service and enables everyone to understand how we go about doing the right things, in the right way and for the right reasons for children and their families.

We have made excellent progress in our transformation journey, and we are ambitious.

This is an excellent opportunity to shine in a visible, well-resourced and well-regarded social care environment. There has never been a more exciting time to work in East Riding. If this kind of environment resonates with you and you are looking for a new opportunity, we’d be delighted to receive your application.

At East Riding, we know that we are Stronger Together.

Your Exclusive Benefits Package:

As part of your Reward ERYC package, not only will you enjoy a competitive salary (Grade 9), up to 40 days leave entitlement* (including bank holidays) and enrolment into a local government pension, you will have access to our exclusive Reward ERYC platform.