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About Adopt London South:

Adoption London South is a forward-looking Regional Adoption Agency partnership, working across 10 South London councils.  This is an exciting time to join ALS, now that Greenwich has joined and there will be opportunities to join Adopt London projects. 

As the Regional Adoption Agency we  work closely with Adopt London partners and also with national projects to improve adoption. We have a strong partnership with We are Family support community and others across the sector.

Our aim is to build best practice across South London by providing a range of adoption services children, adoptive families, birth parents and adopted adults. We are looking for people to join us in building the service to improve outcomes in adoption.

The role:

We are looking for a consultant social worker in the South East Assessment Team to lead on specific areas to support the team including.

  • deputise for the team manager in their absence
  • stepping in to undertake visits at short notice when social workers are unavailable across the region
  • supporting colleagues by Quality Assuring PAR, APR  or other reports for adoption panel to ensure that they are of a good standard and meet timescale deadlines
  • Being a lead on;  and coordinating specific areas needed to develop a modern adoption service eg EP, adopter training
  • Provide information, advice and guidance to colleagues within the team and to partners across the service in line with our service standards

To join our committed, stable and diverse adoption social work teams preparing or supporting families for South London children. 

Adoption social workers work with families and children, adopted adults and birth parents. 

Reducing race disparity in adoption is a key objective for everyone in ALS, ensuring we have the right adopters.   In the assessment team and pre-order support teams 34 South London children have benefitted from Early Permanence and a new London wide project is developing this further.

There will be opportunities to develop your group work and training skills in preparing adopters to meet the therapeutic needs of children affected by early traumatic events and the experience of loss.

This  vacancy is in South East Assessment and Pre-order Support team. Agile working is established in ALS, with home visits usually from home.  The role is based at Tooley Street but meetings can take place at venues across our region.

Our offer includes:

  • A systemic framework of social work practice
  • A vibrant place and Service to work with and a diverse community
  • Strong commitment to partnership working with our Local Authority colleagues.
  • Commitment to Personal Development
  • Flexible Working

To find out more, please e-mail Lucy.Macharia@southwark.gov.uk 

Additional Information:

  • Full time post - Monday to Friday (standard 36 hours per week)
  • Permanent role
  • Enhanced DBS Check is required
  • Internal applicants only

Benefits and more information:

From flexible working to job sharing (where possible) we are committed to providing a healthy work life balance. You will benefit from 28 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), rising to 36 days with continuous service, a generous local government salary related pension, cycle to work and cycle loan scheme, season-ticket loan, confidential wellbeing and counselling support. For more information about the wide variety of benefits you can take advantage of please visit our Staff Benefits page

 

Recruitment timetable:

Closing Date: 29/05/2022
Interviews and Assessments: 14/06/2022

We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together programme. We particularly welcome applications from members of the Black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.

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