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Fostering Panel chair
| Posting date: | 12 July 2024 |
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| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 18 July 2024 |
| Location: | Leicester, Leicestershire |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Leicester City Council |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | REQ4419 |
Summary
Are you an excellent communicator with the skills to chair complex meetings, providing focus, managing time, and creating a safe space where a wide variety of views may be expressed?
The Fostering Panel are a diverse team bringing together different skills. The Panel meets to scrutinise Fostering Assessments and Reviews to make recommendations to the Agency Decision Maker in respect of foster carers’ suitability to foster and or recommend any changes to their approval.
For the last year the Panel have continued to meet remotely, fortnightly on a Wednesday, using Microsoft Teams. It is anticipated that Panel Meetings will return to face to face meetings in Leicester City centre towards the end of the year.
This is a permanent position of variable hours. Salary is as follows:
• £500 per Panel
• £250 for training day
Fees include all additional work associated with the role of Panel Chair e.g. member’s appraisals/reviews and Chair’s Report.
Your Role
As a chair of the Fostering Panel you’ll provide leadership and organisational skills when preparing for Fostering Panel meetings by reading Panel papers carefully, identifying key issues and alerting the Panel adviser if necessary, to ensure that the case is adequate for submission to Panel. You’ll ensure that all those attending Panel contribute and are treated with respect and courtesy whilst promoting anti discriminatory practice, and a strengths-based (Signs of Safety) approach. You’ll show attention to detail when checking that electronic draft minutes are clear and accurate, before they are sent to the Agency Decision Maker (ADM) and the next Panel meeting. You’ll also be involved in the recruitment, appointment and termination of Panel members and their annual appraisals. You’ll work alongside Panel Members, Foster Carers, Leicester City Managers and Supervising Social Workers to develop and monitor policies and procedures to ensure high standards of work in the fostering service.
What you’ll need
As the ideal candidate you’ll have experience of sitting on a Fostering Panel either as a Panel member, Vice-Chair or Chair. Experience, whether that be professionally or personally, of the placement of children in foster families and of children being cared for away from their birth family is also a requirement as well as an appreciation of the effects of trauma, separation, and loss of children. In addition, you’ll also have experience of chairing complex meetings whereby you will warmly welcome people attending panel ensuring that panel members are able to explore any concerns they have about matters placed before them and show a knowledge of the fostering regulations as they relate to approval of foster carers. You’ll hold the authority and competence to chair a Panel, ensuring that business is covered and that the Panel operates in accordance with regulations, policies and procedures.
You’ll have the ability to process, summarise and analyse large amounts of complex and sometimes distressing information, employing rigorous quality assurance and analytical skills which are used throughout. You’ll understand how to safeguard and promote children's welfare in foster care using excellent interpersonal, listening, oral and written communication skills.
For an informal discussion please contact Aneeta Hulait Fostering Panel Adviser on 01164544259 or email Aneeta.Hulait@Leicester.Gov.UK
The Fostering Panel are a diverse team bringing together different skills. The Panel meets to scrutinise Fostering Assessments and Reviews to make recommendations to the Agency Decision Maker in respect of foster carers’ suitability to foster and or recommend any changes to their approval.
For the last year the Panel have continued to meet remotely, fortnightly on a Wednesday, using Microsoft Teams. It is anticipated that Panel Meetings will return to face to face meetings in Leicester City centre towards the end of the year.
This is a permanent position of variable hours. Salary is as follows:
• £500 per Panel
• £250 for training day
Fees include all additional work associated with the role of Panel Chair e.g. member’s appraisals/reviews and Chair’s Report.
Your Role
As a chair of the Fostering Panel you’ll provide leadership and organisational skills when preparing for Fostering Panel meetings by reading Panel papers carefully, identifying key issues and alerting the Panel adviser if necessary, to ensure that the case is adequate for submission to Panel. You’ll ensure that all those attending Panel contribute and are treated with respect and courtesy whilst promoting anti discriminatory practice, and a strengths-based (Signs of Safety) approach. You’ll show attention to detail when checking that electronic draft minutes are clear and accurate, before they are sent to the Agency Decision Maker (ADM) and the next Panel meeting. You’ll also be involved in the recruitment, appointment and termination of Panel members and their annual appraisals. You’ll work alongside Panel Members, Foster Carers, Leicester City Managers and Supervising Social Workers to develop and monitor policies and procedures to ensure high standards of work in the fostering service.
What you’ll need
As the ideal candidate you’ll have experience of sitting on a Fostering Panel either as a Panel member, Vice-Chair or Chair. Experience, whether that be professionally or personally, of the placement of children in foster families and of children being cared for away from their birth family is also a requirement as well as an appreciation of the effects of trauma, separation, and loss of children. In addition, you’ll also have experience of chairing complex meetings whereby you will warmly welcome people attending panel ensuring that panel members are able to explore any concerns they have about matters placed before them and show a knowledge of the fostering regulations as they relate to approval of foster carers. You’ll hold the authority and competence to chair a Panel, ensuring that business is covered and that the Panel operates in accordance with regulations, policies and procedures.
You’ll have the ability to process, summarise and analyse large amounts of complex and sometimes distressing information, employing rigorous quality assurance and analytical skills which are used throughout. You’ll understand how to safeguard and promote children's welfare in foster care using excellent interpersonal, listening, oral and written communication skills.
For an informal discussion please contact Aneeta Hulait Fostering Panel Adviser on 01164544259 or email Aneeta.Hulait@Leicester.Gov.UK
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