Overview
In this role you lead a new sub-regional fostering recruitment and retention hub across South-West London to improve how prospective carers are recruited, engaged and approved. You will provide strategic and operational leadership, building cross-borough partnerships and driving transformation using data to inform decisions. You’ll shape a high-performing service that delivers a clear, consistent journey for foster carers and demonstrates measurable improvements. This secondment offers a chance to influence outcomes for children and families at scale.
Responsibilities
- Provide strategic and operational leadership for Foster With South-West London
- Establish and embed a high-performing service offer across participating authorities
- Lead a transformation programme using data to drive decisions
- Oversee a cohesive journey from initial enquiry to approval for foster carers
- Build and maintain partnerships with senior leaders, fostering, communications and marketing teams
- Drive continuous improvement by identifying recruitment bottlenecks and testing innovative approaches
- Coordinate cross-borough collaboration to deliver value for all authorities
Key requirements
- Strategic leadership across organisational boundaries
- Ability to communicate complex issues to senior stakeholders
- Experience using data and insight to drive improvement
- Resilience, sound judgement and collaborative leadership
- Commitment to improving outcomes for children and foster families
- Strong leadership and management experience including performance management
- collaborative leadership
- influencing stakeholders
- curiosity and pragmatism
- data-driven decision making
- transformation and change management
- service improvement
Contact Details:
Royal Borough of Kingston Upon Thames Recruitment Team
