Job Opportunity with TACT: Deputy Recruitment Manager

Location: Cardiff

Salary: £43,314 per annum (increasing to £48,126 in 18 months) + £750 Homeworking Allowance
Hours: 35 hours per week

Closing Date: 16/06/2024
Interview Date: 24/06/2024

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Location: Homebased - Wales - travel required for recruitment activity across Wales and the Bristol areas. 

As a ‘not for profit’ organisation, TACT puts the needs of our children and carers first and look to appoint individuals who are as passionate about fostering as we are. We are a homeworking organisation, and we pride ourselves on our flexible working opportunities, available from day one, an extensive wellbeing programme and our benefits package, all curated to nurture a healthy work life balance for all our employees so they can give an excellent service to our carers and the young people and children we care for.

As a foster care charity, TACT invests all surplus income into services, staff, carers, and child development. This means that we have been able to invest unique projects like TACT Connect, our unique and ground-breaking scheme for TACT care experienced young people and adults,  as well as our expanding TACT Education Service and our new Health Service. All our activities are built on our commitment to becoming a fully trauma informed organisation, in line with our key values and ethos.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Recruitment Service as a Deputy Recruitment Manager. This role is responsible for the successful recruitment of new TACT foster carers, proactively building excellent relationships with potential fostering applicants & guiding them through the assessment & approval process. 

Overall Duties of the Deputy Recruitment Manager will include:

• Overseeing the assessment process providing supervision and support to Independent Assessors and internal assessing Social Worker. 
• Managing and providing quality assurance for all Form F assessments through to approval. 
• Working closely with Area Teams to identify training opportunities for applicants in assessment
• Attend and provide up to date information to area team meetings.
• Providing an ongoing customer focused relationship with applicants

We are looking for candidates with:

• BA or Master’s in Social Work or Dip SW, CSS or CQSW qualification
• Current Registration with the relevant professional body
• Experience of working in Children's Services
• A Management qualification (or the willingness to undertake one)
• Experience of working flexibly as part of team
• A passion for ensuring children receive the highest quality care from their foster family
• Experience of delivering training to potential foster families and supporting them in their journey

Further details and application documents here