Head of Fostering and Adoption Employer: Suffolk County Council Address: Endeavour House, Ipswich, Suffolk IP1 2BX, Hybrid working Salary: £74,716 - £84,404 per annum including performance related pay progression Hours: 37 hours per week, flexible working options available Contract: Permanent We''re recruiting for a Head of Fostering and Adoption to provide strategic and operational leadership across our fostering, adoption and kinship services. Your focus will be on strengthening sufficiency and building effective permanence pathways, ensuring children experience stable, nurturing care and achieve permanence without unnecessary delay. Providing stable homes built on love is our priority for our children in care. About the role You''ll lead both the strategic direction and day-to-day delivery of these services, with clear accountability for sufficiency, quality and performance. Your role is to ensure children and young people are supported to live in safe, stable family homes and achieve positive, lasting outcomes as a consequence of their care experience. You''ll lead the teams and provision that recruit, assess and support carers and adopters, ensuring children move into the right long-term homes at the right time. Working as part of the Children and Young People''s (CYP) senior management team, you''ll oversee performance, risk and improvement across your services, while contributing to wider priorities for children and families. In this role, you will: