Support Worker - Adoption Post Order
| Posting date: | 25 January 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 24 February 2025 |
| Location: | Leicester, LE3 8RA |
| Company: | Leicestershire County Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 4549 |
Summary
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: Hybrid / County Hall, Glenfield, Leicester, LE3 8RA
Worker Category: Hybrid Worker
Salary: £31,074 - £33,294 per annum (pro-rata for part-time)
Working Hours: 37 Hours per week - Mon - Fri
Contract Type: Fixed term for (12 months),
Closing Date: 6th February 2025
Interview Date(s): TBC
About the Role
The team are looking for an experienced and passionate support worker to work within our supportive and approachable of social workers, Team co-ordinator and Team Manager.
The post holder will be responsible for
- Delivering family support services to adoptive parents and their children.
- As a key position, the post holder will be responsible for providing some direct work with adoptive families who need specialist advice and support.
- Support in the development of innovative adoption support services, especially developing the services support offer through in-house therapeutic services
- Building up skills and knowledge in the team in relation to supporting families who are experiencing significant issues in relation to trauma and post placement challenges
- Provide one to one support to families who are referred for post adoption support.
- Developing and deliver post adoption training workshops for adoptive carers.
- Promoting our post order support services
- Keep accurate data, reports and records of who has used the service.
- The post holder will also be a key source of information on national adoption support policies and practices for Leicestershire County Council’s staff working in adoption support.
An enhanced DBS check is required for this post.
For information on our approach to the recruitment of ex-offenders, please see our policy statement.
About You
To apply for this post, you must have
- Knowledge of the Adoption Support Fund and how this can to utilised to support families where there are support needs post order.
- Specific knowledge / experience / understanding of post adoption support issues unique to families who are caring for children with a care experiences and trauma backgrounds
- Experience of working within health, education, or looked after children setting
- Ability to work under own initiative as well as be a strong team player
- Ability to communicate well and work in partnership with a range of national and regional partners/stakeholders on multiple work-streams and meet deadlines
- Ability to work with sensitive and confidential issues.
- An empathetic approach to helping and supporting people
You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.
In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Lisa Deakin - Team Manager Permanence
Telephone: 01163052823
Email: Lisa.Deakin@leics.gov.uk
How to Apply
Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.
To apply for this job, please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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