Family Finding Senior Practitioner

Job Title: Family Finding Senior Practitioner

Contract: Fixed-Term for 12 months

Hours: 21 hours per week

Salary: £24,600 – £26,607 per annum - pay award pending (FTE £41,000-£44,345)

Location: Westminster with flexibility for home working

Coram Ambitious for Adoption Regional Adoption Agency [RAA] is a commissioned Voluntary Adoption Agency delivering statutory adoption support services and Family Finding for a number of local authority partners. The post adoption post holder will be located in Westminster, as part of the wider RAA partnership located across London and surrounding areas. The hub services for the RAA include the recruitment, assessment and support of Coram approved adopters, which are located at the Coram Campus in London.

The post holder will be employed by Coram, a service with a long track record of serving children well and outstanding ratings from Ofsted. The task for the Regional Adoption Agency is to ensure that all children who have a plan for adoption are given every chance to have that ambition realised and when placed in a permanent family receive the relevant support as their needs change and develop.

About the role

We are seeking a dynamic Family FindingSenior Practitioner wishing to play an active role in the delivery and development of a high quality adoption service but as part of the Coram Ambitious for Adoption RAA.

The post holder will be responsible for being the lead professional in Family Finding and assisting with providing a statutory post adoption service to local residents. This includes working collaboratively with other family finders and post adoption workers across the RAA.

The post holder will have access to services within Bi-Borough to undertake this task and be part of a bigger network of support from colleagues from across the RAA. All Coram staff are actively engaged in activities with colleagues to improve the quality of services and to develop themselves as adoption practitioner.

To arrange an informal discussion – please contact: Sally Beaumont – Service Manager at Coram Ambitious for Adoption RAA –Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea: Sbeaumont@westminster.gov.uk

To apply for this role, please click on the 'apply now' button below to complete the application.

Closing date: Friday 22nd March 2024 at 23:59

Interview date: Thursday 4th April 2024 

Coram is an equal opportunities employer and we believe a diverse workforce enables us to improve the services to the children and families we help. We are genuinely committed to encouraging candidates from all sections of the community we seek to support. This includes those from, Asian, African, Caribbean and other minority ethnic backgrounds, those that identify as LGBQT+, those with disabilities, those with lived experience of care, those with neuro-diversity, and those from other groups who are underrepresented at Coram.

If applicants feel comfortable, we would encourage them to draw on lived experience as well as professional experience in their personal statement as part of their application.

We are committed to the safeguarding of children and where appropriate will require the successful applicant to undertake a check from the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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