Families that care. Teams that empower. Futures that flourish.
We are looking for a visionary and compassionate Service Lead to drive innovation and excellence across our Fostering and Adoption Service. This is an incredible opportunity to lead a dedicated teams focused on building safe, loving, and resilient homes where children can truly thrive.
Your Purpose
You will provide strategic and operational leadership across the Fostering and Adoption Service—ensuring our Carers are supported, our teams are inspired, and our children are at the heart of every decision.
You will be the catalyst behind stable loving homes, robust support networks, and a community of care where children feel heard, understood, and empowered.
What will my day look like.
Leading, mentoring, and inspiring our workforce.
Ensuring all services meet and exceed regulatory and statutory standards,
You will also be a key voice in our recruitment and retention strategies that value, support, and continue to grow our foster carer community.
You will work in collaboration with partners, carers, children and young people to co-design a service built around real lives and real voices and embed trauma-informed and relational practice across all aspects of the service
You will work alongside the Service Lead for Kinship Care to support our Carers and children thrive within their own family networks
What You Bring
Proven leadership in fostering and Adoption or children’s services
A deep commitment to children’s voice and a belief in their potential
The ability to influence, innovate, and embed high standards Empathy, resilience, and clarity of vision.
For more information, please refer to the attached guidance and role profile.
We reserve the right to close our adverts early if we have received a significant volume of suitable applications.
In order to fully comply with Safer Recruitment guidelines, if you are successful with your application, you must meet the below criteria and be able to provide:
At least one reference must be from your current or most recent employment, placement or work experience (if you are an agency worker at NELC, please provide your agency as a reference)- You must provide a professional/company email address (we cannot accept personal email addresses)
- References must cover the last 3 years, any reasons for gaps should be detailed in your enhanced reference form. Your references will only be requested if you are offered and have accepted a position
Check out our NELC Benefits brochure attached for more information on the brilliant benefits avaialable working at North East Lincolnshire Council!
Do you need support?
If you need any help applying for this position, please contact Wendy Trask on 07702 338542 (text or call). Wendy can support with digital access as well as offering advice and guidance about completing the different sections of the application form.
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