Part-Time Recruitment Officer - Permanent
Working Pattern: 21 hours per week (flexible approach to working outside core hours including some evenings & weekends as required)
Base Location: Bromsgrove
Salary: Up to £23,000 pro-rated
Benefits: 30 days' Annual Leave (rising to 35 days' with length of service) + Bank Holidays, Mileage, Company Pension, Life Assurance x2, Employee Discount Scheme & Medical Cash Plan (all benefits will be pro-rated)
About Us
Set up in 1987 by a small but passionate group of foster parents, we became the UK's first independent foster care agency. That gives us the benefit of over 30 years' of fostering experience and we're still going strong!
The founder members recognised that looked after children - especially those who'd had very difficult starts in life - needed specialist support. So right from the beginning they put the child at the centre of their thinking and surrounded them with an integrated range of support services. In fact, that's what ISP means: Integrated Service Programme.
Over time, this circle of support has increased to include a whole range of professionals that children and foster parents can tap into, whenever they need to. This includes social workers, fostering advisors, teachers and therapists, who all work with our foster parents and the children they look after, helping them understand and manage even the most challenging situations. This is what's known as a 'therapeutic approach' to fostering and it's something that we pioneered.
Role Details
What we need
We are looking for a Recruitment Officer to assist our Fostering teams with the recruitment and selection of high quality and committed foster parents.
Job Purpose
To perform a key role in the recruitment of high quality committed foster parents; ensuring high levels of service & efficient processes are delivered at all times
Key Responsibilities
- Undertaking visits to the homes of prospective foster parents in the community and through online forums, providing advice and assessing suitability for formal assessment
- Writing quality detailed reports
- Monitoring the progress of our prospective foster parents through the recruitment and assessment process
- Supporting the delivery of recruitment events and community activity
- Liaise with Fostering teams to ensure prospective applicants attend required training
- Records management and database maintenance
About You
- Hold a valid driving licence and have unrestricted access to your own vehicle
- Be happy to travel extensively across Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Hereford, Redditch, Coventry, Nuneaton and surrounding areas.
- Able to meet exceed agreed targets
- Work autonomously
- Experience of fostering recruitment is an advantage, though not essential
The successful candidate will be required to complete an enhanced DBS Check, cost of which will be met by ISP.
ISP is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates.
ISP is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment