Qualified Social Worker - Children's Adoption Team

Posted 28 April 2021
Salary £32.00 - £35.00 per hour
Job type Contract
Discipline Social Care
ReferenceBen - Adoption_1619599099
Contact NameBen Holden

Job description

Remedy Recruitment Group are looking for a qualified social worker who can work in the adoption team.

Main Purpose of the job:

  • Contribute to the delivery of an effective Adoption family finding and matching service as part of a social work team, improving outcomes for children and young people.
  • Manage caseloads of children with a placement order, where a placement order has been applied for in care proceedings and who have been relinquished, utilising specialist expertise in family finding and matching.
  • Work closely with the child's social worker to identify and match prospective adopters
  • Work with colleagues across Adopt London East to ensure the child is matched to an appropriate adopter within agreed timescales
  • Use a range of tools and techniques to develop children's profiles and promote the child in both on-line and direct forums
  • Work with the Team Manager and Head of Service to develop the service
  • Work from an agreed local base across 4 London Boroughs to family find for and match children across East London

Ensure children and young people are adequately protected in line with Havering LSCB and departmental policy and procedures and relevant legislation.

Why join Remedy?

1st tier agency

2 payrolls a week

Referral bonus's up to £400

Excellent service