Social Worker - Adoption Support
Children's Services

Adoption Support Social Worker

Health and Wellbeing

Looked after Children

Adoption – With the Regional Adoption Agency, Adoption Now

Ref: G6/OL-34766

Contract: Permanent.

Salary: £31,371 - £34,788 pro rata

Hours: 18.5 hours

Based: Adoption Now, First Floor Howell Croft,, Howell Croft North, Bolton, BL1 1QY.

Closing Date: Sunday 5th January 2020

Shortlisting: Tuesday 7th January 2020

Interview Dates: TBC

Job Description & Person Specification.doc
Oldham Right to Work in the UK.doc

Role Overview:

 

To ensure effective assessments and provisions of services to adopted children, adoptive families and birth families who require them.

 

An exciting opportunity has arisen for you to join Adoption Now, a busy, committed and experienced adoption service.  We are keen to have an energetic and motivated social worker to join us within our newly formed Regional Adoption Agency. Adoption Now is a partnership with Bolton, Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside, Bury and Blackburn with Darwen Councils.

 

The role will be based in the Adoption Support workstream of the agency and is based in Bolton. You will be an employee of Oldham Council and you will be seconded to Bolton MBC.

 

Adoption Now has an ambitious plan for our Adoption Support service that includes a range of enhanced training opportunities. These opportunities currently include approaches such as Theraplay, DDP, NVR and Therapeutic Life Story Work to support and assess the needs of adoptive families.

 

For further information please contact: Maggie Crabtree 01204 336171

 

Key Responsibilities:

  • To ensure that adopted children and their adoptive families who may need support, receive appropriate assessments which identity needs.
  • To create, develop and deliver a range of support services. (this may involve some evening and weekend working).
  • To work with social workers and other professionals/agencies as appropriate, to ensure delivery of appropriate interventions and support to adopted children, their adoptive families and birth relatives as appropriate.
  • To lead the development of responsive adoption support, including therapeutic interventions.
  • To provide advice and consultation to social workers, link workers and adoptive families.
  • To assist in the delivery of a training programme for staff and adoptive families.

Key Requirements:

  • To be a qualified as a social worker and registered with the HCPC
  • Experienced in assessments with good written and communication skills
  • Knowledge and skills grounded in safeguarding and statutory responsibilities in relation to children and adults.
  • To maintain a high level of knowledge in relation to developments within the field of adoption support, and to assist the department in any changes necessary to maintain a high standard of service.
  • To assist in the monitoring, evaluation and performance management of adoption support plans, together with the wider service.
  • To cooperate fully with external monitoring of the service, including inspections. 

About Us:

 

Oldham is committed to developing a Co-operative future; one where citizens, partners and staff work together to improve the borough.  Anyone joining the council is coming into an ambitious organisation with big plans. We are working hard to build a brighter future for our borough and we need people from a wide range of backgrounds to continue delivering the best for our communities.

 

The Council has a clear set of Values and Behaviours, our Values outline how we do business and we share these borough wide with our residents, partners and businesses.  Internally we have translated these values into five cooperative behaviours which outline the priority areas of focus for all staff at all levels. You can view the Values and Behaviours on our Greater. Jobs pages Working for Oldham

 

For details of how we use your data please see out privacy notice: Privacy Notice

 

Please note that should a vacancy that has been released for internal or external recruitment be deemed suitable for an at risk employee, it can be pulled back at any point up to the post being formally offered to an external candidate or an internal candidate that is not at risk of redundancy. 

 

We welcome applications from residents of Oldham as part of our campaign to Get Oldham Working.  For more information please visit http://www.oldham.gov.uk/get_oldham_working

 

Location
Adoption NoW Regional Adoption Agency
Vacancy Description
 

Adoption Support Social Worker

Health and Wellbeing

Looked after Children

Adoption – With the Regional Adoption Agency, Adoption Now

Ref: G6/OL-34766

Contract: Permanent.

Salary: £31,371 - £34,788 pro rata

Hours: 18.5 hours

Based: Adoption Now, First Floor Howell Croft,, Howell Croft North, Bolton, BL1 1QY.

Closing Date: Sunday 5th January 2020

Shortlisting: Tuesday 7th January 2020

Interview Dates: TBC

Job Description & Person Specification.doc
Oldham Right to Work in the UK.doc

Role Overview:

 

To ensure effective assessments and provisions of services to adopted children, adoptive families and birth families who require them.

 

An exciting opportunity has arisen for you to join Adoption Now, a busy, committed and experienced adoption service.  We are keen to have an energetic and motivated social worker to join us within our newly formed Regional Adoption Agency. Adoption Now is a partnership with Bolton, Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside, Bury and Blackburn with Darwen Councils.

 

The role will be based in the Adoption Support workstream of the agency and is based in Bolton. You will be an employee of Oldham Council and you will be seconded to Bolton MBC.

 

Adoption Now has an ambitious plan for our Adoption Support service that includes a range of enhanced training opportunities. These opportunities currently include approaches such as Theraplay, DDP, NVR and Therapeutic Life Story Work to support and assess the needs of adoptive families.

 

For further information please contact: Maggie Crabtree 01204 336171

 

Key Responsibilities:

  • To ensure that adopted children and their adoptive families who may need support, receive appropriate assessments which identity needs.
  • To create, develop and deliver a range of support services. (this may involve some evening and weekend working).
  • To work with social workers and other professionals/agencies as appropriate, to ensure delivery of appropriate interventions and support to adopted children, their adoptive families and birth relatives as appropriate.
  • To lead the development of responsive adoption support, including therapeutic interventions.
  • To provide advice and consultation to social workers, link workers and adoptive families.
  • To assist in the delivery of a training programme for staff and adoptive families.

Key Requirements:

  • To be a qualified as a social worker and registered with the HCPC
  • Experienced in assessments with good written and communication skills
  • Knowledge and skills grounded in safeguarding and statutory responsibilities in relation to children and adults.
  • To maintain a high level of knowledge in relation to developments within the field of adoption support, and to assist the department in any changes necessary to maintain a high standard of service.
  • To assist in the monitoring, evaluation and performance management of adoption support plans, together with the wider service.
  • To cooperate fully with external monitoring of the service, including inspections. 

About Us:

 

Oldham is committed to developing a Co-operative future; one where citizens, partners and staff work together to improve the borough.  Anyone joining the council is coming into an ambitious organisation with big plans. We are working hard to build a brighter future for our borough and we need people from a wide range of backgrounds to continue delivering the best for our communities.

 

The Council has a clear set of Values and Behaviours, our Values outline how we do business and we share these borough wide with our residents, partners and businesses.  Internally we have translated these values into five cooperative behaviours which outline the priority areas of focus for all staff at all levels. You can view the Values and Behaviours on our Greater. Jobs pages Working for Oldham

 

For details of how we use your data please see out privacy notice: Privacy Notice

 

Please note that should a vacancy that has been released for internal or external recruitment be deemed suitable for an at risk employee, it can be pulled back at any point up to the post being formally offered to an external candidate or an internal candidate that is not at risk of redundancy. 

 

We welcome applications from residents of Oldham as part of our campaign to Get Oldham Working.  For more information please visit http://www.oldham.gov.uk/get_oldham_working