Job Introduction
Are you a dedicated and highly motivated professional with the passion and commitment to make sure that children have the opportunity to grow up in loving, safe and secure home? If the answer is yes, then we need you!!
As a Regional Family Finding Practitioner within the Central Regional Permanency Hub, and as part of Together 4 Children you'll work effectively with children and families across the region to secure improved outcomes.
Together4Children operates through a hub and spoke model enabling Local Authorities to benefit from core central functions and networked regional delivery, whilst retaining direct service delivery functions within their own borders. This ensures the Partnership reflects the local context, adapted to meet the needs of local children and families, and maintains clear links to local Children & Families Services.
Main Responsibility
Working together with the Together4Children Permanency Coordinators, as a Regional Family Finding Practitioner you will support the coordinators to work in collaboration with Children's Social Workers to achieve timely, well planned adoptive placements for Looked After Children and will undertake a range of functions relating to Permanency/Adoption Support. You'll hold a mixed allocation of children across the regional footprint and there will be the expectation that you travel in order to meet the needs of the service.
You'll be working through a whole family approach to deliver a comprehensive range of Permanency Services relating to family finding. This may include a Family Finding caseload of complex adoptive children and families, using evidence-based programmes, tools and approaches.
This will mean working with Looked After, and previously Looked After Children and Young People, their parents, Carers, and families; completing direct work relating to Family Finding (including emergency work), maximising their involvement in accordance with outcomes identified in the child’s plan.
You'll also be part of our duty rota for the Adopter Recruitment Enquiry Line and other activities within the Central Regional Permanency Hub (as appropriate). And, If required, on occasions provide verbal or written evidence in both civil and criminal Court Proceedings, as directed by the Regional Permanency Coordinator.
Full job description and person specification for this role can be viewed on our Staffordshire job board here: Jobs and careers with Staffordshire County Council
The Ideal Candidate
To be successful in this role you'll need to be:
- Experienced in working with children and families and ideally have experience in working
- Have knowledge about the National Adoption Agenda
- Have some skills and knowledge in direct work with children and will have experience in moving children on to adoption and will have a proven record of doing this successfully
What to know more and apply ?
If you would like further information or have an informal chat please contact Lana Morris Principal Manager Central Permanency Hub on: 07393919524 or via email Lana.morris@stoke.gov.uk
Package Description
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 Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire
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.
