Job Description

Salary

69,337

Contractual hours

37

Basis

Full time

Hours

Full Time, Permanent

Job category/type

Children's Services

Date posted

11/07/2025

Job reference

NELC400000244

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 Service. This is an incredible opportunity to lead a dedicated team focused on building safe, loving, and resilient foster homes where children can truly thrive.

Your Purpose

You will provide strategic and operational leadership across the Fostering Service--ensuring our foster 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 home, 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 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

What You Bring

Proven leadership in fostering 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.

If you would like an informal discussion, please contact queenie.carrie@elincs.gov.uk

We reserve the right to close our adverts early if we have received a significant volume of suitable applications.

As part of your RewardNEL package

, you will have a generous leave entitlement (including bank holidays) and enrolment into a local government pension.



You will also have access to our

exclusive

RewardNEL

platform.

This includes a variety of salary sacrifice schemes including Cycle2Work, Holiday Extra and Tusker (Car Lease), discounts at local coffee shops and bars, direct access to our inhouse wellbeing support, free and discounted local car parking as well as instant access to new savings at major retailers, entertainment and hotels.



NELC staff can also benefit from flexible working and excellent training and development opportunities and a Fostering friendly scheme.

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

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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We regularly review data to ensure our recruitment processes are fair, transparent and promote equal opportunities for all. We also have an in-house Equalities Champions Group that works to promote and embed

inclusivity

in the workplace, helping us identify areas where we can take positive action, and make the organisation a safe space for colleagues to feel connected.