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Assessment Manager
Location: North Shields or Sheffield. Agency-wide role with travel across all office bases as required
Hours: Full Time 37.5 hours per week
Salary £52,382.25 to £56,429.25 per annum.
Reports to: Director – Quality Assurance
Responsible for: Recruitment, Retention, and Development Social Worker and Independent Form F Assessors
Closing date: 5th January 2026
About Team Fostering
Team Fostering is a not-for-profit independent fostering agency that puts children’s futures first. We are committed to providing a first-class fostering service that promotes positive outcomes for children and young people. We endeavour to support our diverse communities and our values and principles shape our practice and development plans. We operate a relational practice model and support our staff to work collaboratively with all stakeholders.
Who are we Looking For?
We are seeking an experienced social work practitioner with management or supervisory experience to manage our foster carer assessment service. This involves managing and developing a pool of Independent Social Workers who are responsible for completing detailed assessments of prospective foster carers. The role is also responsible for our Recruitment, Retention and Development Social Worker and will act as Advisor to our Fostering Panel. The role incorporates an important quality assurance function, ensuring that our assessment process enables us to recruit capable and resilient carers that can meet the diverse needs of children that require foster care. The role is a key part of our safeguarding arrangements ensuring children receive safe and effective care.
Key Responsibilities
- To Manage the Recruitment, Retention, and Development Social Worker
- To Manage the pool of Independent Social Worker (Form F Assessors).
- To ensure and support the development of staff, ensuring their practice remains effective and in line with best practice guidance and research.
- Quality assuring Form F assessments, ensuring they are ready to be presented to Panel within agreed timescales.
- To work with other managers and colleagues, to ensure a joined-up approach to the recruitment and retention of foster carers that meet the needs of our communities.
- To help drive forward continuous improvement, contributing to training, learning and development work across the agency.
- Supporting the review and development of policies and procedures, ensuring best practice.
Wider Responsibilities
You will play a central role in the operation of the Agency, upholding our practice principles and core values. Adopting a one team approach you will support our commitment to continuous improvement, and you will be expected to help drive forward best practice across the agency. You will contribute to the Agency’s quality initiatives, support policy development, and ensure compliance with relevant legislation and National Minimum Standards for fostering.
In return we offer an exceptional range of employee benefits including:
- 30 days annual leave plus 8 days bank holidays
- A blend of home and office working
- A wide range of flexible working arrangements to support a good work life balance
- Flexi time
- Company sick pay scheme
- Pension scheme
- Staff loyalty bonus
- Employee assistance membership
- Cycle to work scheme
- Life assurance cover
- Learning & development opportunities to support your continuous professional development
For an informal chat about the post please contact Stafford Devine, Director of Quality Assurance on 07849 641739.
Please note Team Fostering does not accept CV’s. Applications must be by submission of Team Fostering’s application form.
This post will be subject to an Enhanced DBS Disclosure.
Team Fostering strives to be diverse and inclusive – a place where we can ALL be ourselves. We particularly encourage applications from people who identify as Black, Asian or from a Minority Ethnic background, who are underrepresented within the agency.
Interview Date: TBC
Please note if you are shortlisted for interview we will contact you via the email you have provided. Please ensure you check your emails including your junk folder regularly.
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This post will be subject to an Enhanced DBS Disclosure.
Team Fostering strives to be diverse and inclusive – a place where we can ALL be ourselves. We particularly encourage applications from people who identify as Black, Asian or from a Minority Ethnic background, who are underrepresented within the agency.
Please note if you are shortlisted for interview we will contact you via the email you have provided. Please ensure you check your emails including your junk folder regularly.