Advanced Practitioner - Fostering

Posting date:	03 September 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	Competitive
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	03 October 2025
Location:	Wigan, WN1 1NJ
Company:	inploi
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	75733771

Summary

Priority Candidates will be considered in the first instance

Wigan Life Centre South

College Avenue

Wigan

WN1 1NJ

Salary: Grade 10, £45,091 - £49,282 per annum.

37 hours per week

We're on a journey to build a workforce reflective of our Borough.

We are committed to fostering diverse teams where everybody can bring their authentic selves to work and feel that they belong. If you want to work for a Council where everybody is encouraged to meet their full potential and make a difference in our neighbourhoods, we would love to hear from you!

Your role:

You will help to deliver and lead good quality, child centred practice across the service. You will ensure that practice is underpinned by Progress with Unity principles and the Family Safeguarding Approach which is embedded in all our work with children and families. You will demonstrate effective leadership and management to support staff. You will work alongside Team Managers to ensure that the service meets all statutory requirement and practice standards. You will encourage reflection and learning in staff through leading by example, enabling learning circles, group discussions and reflective supervision.

About you:

You will have experience of working with foster carers or with children who are looked after. You will be a passionate practitioner with leadership skills who understands the importance of supporting some of our most vulnerable children to be cared for within fostering families. You will be able to work using initiative and have strong interpersonal skills to not only engage current and potential carers, but to build robust relationships with colleagues, partner agencies and panel members. You will be a team player and be able to see the strengths in all you encounter with a keen commitment to problem solve innovatively.

About us:

Wigan Council has been voted ‘Overall Council of the Year’ at the APSE (Association for Public Service Excellence) Awards. We are signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment ensuring that your service will be continuous or 'unbroken' between the supporting organisations.

The Progress with Unity plan is a place movement for change for the next decade, bringing a new era for Wigan Borough. It draws on the strengths of our individual organisations, recognising that together we can achieve much more for our communities by delivering on our 2 place missions; create fair opportunities for all children, families, residents and businesses and make our towns and neighbourhoods flourish for those who live and work in them.

We are making great strides here in Wigan to make our fostering service even better. We have six fostering team in Wigan, providing a breadth of experience and opportunity across different specialisms. Our fostering leadership team is strong and experienced providing great peer support and challenge. We have lots to celebrate and we want to further develop a consistent trauma informed, therapeutic approach in all our carers. Have a look at what one of our foster carers has to say in our short film and listen to Supported through the Storm poem, inspired by our Million Voices group.

Wigan is a great place to work, and as a Local Authority, we truly value and recognise our staff as its greatest asset. We are embedding the Family Safeguarding Approach in our Children’s Services. We are ambitious about our offer to Wigan’s children and young people and our shared goal is to ensure that young people have accommodation options that prepare them for adulthood. Through our “BeWigan” behaviours, Be Courageous, Be Accountable and Be Positive, we actively encourage innovation, strive to deliver outstanding services and celebrate our successes.

Here at Wigan, we are proud to support flexible working patterns, when the service can accommodate this. We also take a blended approach to where we work, depending on the work we do. This may include working from home, the office, or the community. We like to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits click here to find out more about working for #TeamWigan.

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For further information, please contact Jen Aylesbury-Ball at J.Aylesbury-Ball@wigan.gov.uk

Interview date: Wednesday 17th September 2025

This position is subject to Enhanced Disclosure Procedures plus child barred list check

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