Family Placement Panel & Engagement Officer

About the role

How would you like to use your creativity and organisational strengths to help children across the Island thrive?

As a Family Placement Panel & Engagement Officer
, you’ll take an active role in coordinating fostering and adoption panels, managing agendas, logistics, statutory checks and communications, while also driving foster carer recruitment through marketing campaigns, events, digital content and community outreach. You’ll work independently and out in the community to raise awareness of fostering and adoption, helping ensure children have the best possible opportunities in life.

This role gives you the chance to use your skills with real purpose, combining organisation, communication and creativity in a way that directly strengthens foster care provision. You’ll shape campaigns, build relationships, create digital content and contribute ideas that influence how the Island understands and engages with fostering. If you’re ready to make a meaningful impact and grow your experience in engagement and service support, apply now.

• ✓ A competitive salary that increases each 12 months until you reach the salary maximum.
• ✓ A generous annual leave entitlement, a Privilege Day and 10 Bank Holidays; your annual leave will increase after your first year and again after your third year.
• ✓ A flexi-time scheme where you can accrue additional time worked to take as leave.
• ✓ Enjoy occasional remote working opportunities, with prior agreement from your manager.
• ✓ Subject to meeting eligibility criteria, the IOM Public Service offers two pension arrangements: the Isle of Man Government Unified Scheme 2011 or the Isle of Man Government Defined Contribution (DC) Arrangement.
• ✓ Access to the Learning, Education and Development training facility, which is exclusively for Public Service employees, to keep on top of your continuous professional development.
• ✓ Free access to the Isle of Man Government Staff Welfare Service which offers professional counselling, emotional support and sign-posting on a wide range of issues.
• ✓ Ability to apply for an unpaid career break after 3 years’ service.
• ✓ Access to the Isle of Man Public Service Cycle to Work scheme after your first year of employment.
• ✓ Access to the Government staff canteen where you can purchase affordable meals, drinks and snacks.

We are the largest employer on the island delivering a diverse range of services to the people of the Isle of Man. We care, nurture and value our employees’ wellbeing, development and career and place great importance on rewarding the commitment by our wonderful employees.

We support and promote flexible working, recognising the importance of working flexibly around your life and commitments and the benefits in improving work-life balance. We are happy to discuss flexible working arrangements where possible and if interested you should discuss this with the Recruiting Manager.

The Isle of Man Public Service is committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates equality, diversity and inclusion. We understand how a wide range of views and experiences can benefit us as we work together for the Isle of Man.

Your candidate experience is important to us. As a proud member of The Circle Back Initiative, we commit to respond to every applicant that applies for an Isle of Man Public Service role.

We are committed to net zero by 2050 and as an entire nation UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, we are transforming public services for a sustainable future and your contributions will directly benefit our community, economy, and environment.

A basic police check is required for this post, the cost of which will be covered by the Isle of Man Government.

Please note a relocation package is not available for this role.

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