Salary: £38,220 - £42,839
Grade: J-K
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: 37 per week
Location: Northallerton, North Yorkshire
A welcome from the Corporate Director of Children and Young People
Thank you for your interest in joining our Children and Young People’s service.
As the new Director for Children and Young People, here in North Yorkshire I am excited to announce significant investment in our children and families service.
More capacity. More prevention. Better outcomes.
Be part of a service investing in family help and sustainable practice.
Across local government, children’s services are facing unprecedented demand and funding constraint. Many organisations are responding by reducing capacity and narrowing ambition. We have chosen a different path. In response to the Families First Partnership Programme reforms, we in NYC are seeking to expand out teams in order to drive the changes of supporting children and their families at the earliest opportunity, right time, right person.
We are making a significant and sustained investment in our workforce—creating new and additional capacity across children’s social care, which will become Family help and our Multi agency child protections teams. At a time when others are making savings, we are growing our teams because we believe that safe, effective and relationship based practice relies on practitioners having the time, support and professional space to do their best work, with children.
Hear more from El Mayhew Corporate Director Children and Young People service outline our investment plans, about our children services and new career opportunities visit:
https://www.northyorks.gov.uk/cswl-jobs
About the role
North Yorkshire Council have a national reputation for excellence, and we are extremely proud of the work our Children’s Services do; Ofsted has recently recognised their hard work, rating us as Outstanding across all areas. We now have a number of opportunities available to join our highly acclaimed service within the Fostering team.
Requirements
We have dedicated teams providing the supervision and support to all approved foster carers across the county. You would be joining an existing experienced team of Fostering Social Workers, who are responsible for North Yorkshire foster carers. Within the teams there are also a FTE Practice Supervisor, Team Manager, Fostering Support Workers and dedicated business support.
Applications are invited from qualified Social Workers, ideally experienced in fostering and have a good understanding of the impact of childhood adverse trauma. You will need to be committed to developing excellent outcomes for children through creating productive working relationships with a wide range of services to support our fostering families.
The post of Fostering Social Worker involves a range of professional skills; however, this role will predominantly focus on the supervision and support of approved Foster Carers ranging from newly approved Foster Carers to those who care for the most complex children and young people in care.
Applicants would benefit from an understanding of the whole fostering process, but specifically the requirements to support and supervise Foster Carers. In addition, you should be familiar with the statutory responsibilities throughout their on-going approval.
The post involves a degree of working outside normal office hours for home visits and group work. North Yorkshire Fostering offer an Out of Hours phone line between 6-10pm weekday and 2pm-6pm weekends, it is an expectation of the post that you are part of this rota which equates to 2 slots per month (Full time).
Before applying via this vacancy please review additional information about working for North Yorkshire Council, what staff say about working in North Yorkshire, our CPD offer and career opportunities visit in addition to the job description and interview dates https://www.northyorks.gov.uk/cswl-jobs
For further information regarding the roles contact Portia Staveley at Portia.Staveley@northyorks.gov.uk or Rosie Appleby at Rosie.Appleby@northyorks.gov.uk
Key Dates
Closing date: Sunday 17th May 2026
Interview dates are stated on the campaign site https://www.northyorks.gov.uk/cswl-jobs
Key Documents
Enhanced Level DBS Disclosure is required for appointment to this post.
It is a criminal offence for people who are barred from working in Regulated Activity (under the Safeguarding and Vulnerable Groups Act 2006) to apply for roles that require them to work unsupervised with adults or children at risk.
We are committed to the inclusion, safeguarding, and promoting the welfare of children and adults at risk.
North Yorkshire Councils’ purpose is to deliver services and facilities to the diverse residents and visitors of North Yorkshire. To ensure we deliver inclusive services we strive to have a diverse workforce where everybody can be themselves by respecting differences and embedding equality of opportunity. We celebrate diversity and recognise each other’s contributions; we therefore welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds.