Job Introduction
Employed by Staffordshire County Council.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for experienced and highly motivated children’s social work practitioner/manager to join our committed team at Together4Children. We are an innovative regional partnership providing the Regional Adoption Agency (RAA) for Shropshire Council, Staffordshire County Council, Stoke-on-Trent City Council, and Telford & Wrekin Council. We are recruiting additional Regional Adoption Agency Advisers to join our developing service.
Main Responsibility
You will also work with Local Authorities within the region to quality assure Child’s Permanence Reports and provide professional advice to Agency Decision Makers, where the Care Plan for a child is adoption.
If you are passionate about ensuring that children in care achieve permanency and you have 5-years post qualifying children’s social work experience (including significant direct experience of adoption practice), we would welcome your interest in this challenging and rewarding role.
Staffordshire County Council (on behalf of Together4Children) is offering this post on a permanent basis. The formal work bases for the posts are:
Post 1 - Staffordshire Place 1, Stafford, ST16 2DH.
Post 2 - Civic Centre, Glebe Street, Stoke-on-Trent, St14 1HH
Occasional travel will be required across the region. Together4Children operate an “Agile Working” approach to service delivery. We support blended working between home and office where this meets service needs and work together using Microsoft Teams and other shared IT applications to facilitate this.
Together4Children and our partner Councils are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
This position is subject to a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) which will require you to disclose details of all unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions in your application form.
The Ideal Candidate
Working with our Lead Agency Adviser, the successful candidate will be responsible for the delivery, quality assurance and management of one of our Regional Adoption Panels. The job role will involve managing local resources to ensure the effective delivery of panel and agency advice functions within a locality; and working with the Lead Agency Adviser to provide an effective service across the wider region.
For an informal conversation about this position, please contact Kim Adams (Lead Regional Adoption Agency Advisor) 07977580282/ Kim.Adams@shropshire.gov.uk, or Lana Morris (Principle Manager, Central Permanency Hub Together4Children) 07393919524/lana.morris@stoke.gov.uk, or Nicola Hope (Head of Service Adoption and Kinship, Staffordshire) 07792396199/Nicola.hope@staffordshire.gov.uk
Closing Date: Sunday 15 January midnight.
Interview Date: 20 January 2023 in Stafford Place 1.
About Staffordshire County Council
We are no ordinary county council:
Our Values:
The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.
Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:
We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.
We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too.
Our benefits:
We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.
In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to a range of benefits.
Our recruitment process:
As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities
As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Silver Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post.
As you’ll know safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people/vulnerable adults is important to us and that’s why this position is subject to a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service. If applicable you should disclose details of unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions in your application form.
