Social Worker - Asye Considered

Social Worker - Permanency Service – ASYE considered

Are you eager to be part of a truly interdisciplinary team that thrives on innovation and excellence?

Do you want to make a positive impact on the lives of children in care, help them find a permanent family and support them through transitions, and beyond?

Do you have the drive to recruit, assess, support and develop families who want to provide a child a permanent home?

Have you the flexibility to work within a therapeutic setting that empowers colleagues, parents, and children to address complex and challenging matters?

Do you want to be stretched, learn and develop your insight and practice?

Look no further! Family Futures is actively seeking a Social Worker who aligns with our ethos and ambition to provide high quality permanence placements for complex children. This matters as much as direct experience, and we welcome applicants who are ASYE.

About Family Futures

Family Futures is a not for profit, independent adoption agency and therapy centre in London, rated ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted in 2022 for the fourth consecutive time. We have a reputation for innovation and offer a high-quality service - an integrated multi-disciplinary, assessment, treatment and family-finding service for children who are traumatised or have attachment difficulties.

The role

You will be part of a small team that works together and shares the tasks: recruitment of adopters, assessment, family finding and ongoing support to families. You will be involved in the development of the service and your views, and insight are encouraged.

You will be allocated cases from assessment and with a therapist from Family Futures will take applicants through the assessment process to approval and be their support in family finding, matching and post placement. You will work with our therapy colleagues post placement and be an advocate and conduit for therapeutic post placement services for our adoptive families.

We are always looking to ways to develop our service and have a working relationship with our marketing team to have lively and relevant podcasts about adoption, our offer to adopters and to spark and stimulate debate. We look forward to your input, ideas and being part of our information evenings.

Being a creative team, we are always looking for new ways of working and forming partnerships to develop services of excellence that children who need permanence deserve. We need you to be flexible, of agile mind and willing to embrace areas of work that may be new to us all.

The team meets monthly, and you will have regular informal guidance and formal supervision on a monthly basis. You will be part of the wider service of Family Futures and attend monthly Team Days to learn, share and develop the service and your practice.

We are looking for an individual who is:

• A qualified and SWE registered Social worker with some experience in the field of adoption and/or fostering.
• Has good analytical skills and be able to provide assessments that are cogent, timely and evidence based.
• The motivation to be work with families and derive satisfaction from seeing the development of adopters Not fazed by complex needs, challenges and adversity
• Embraces a parent-positive and child friendly approach
• Able to work in a small team and be a team player
• Wants to develop their knowledge base and interest in multi-disciplinary working through a therapeutic lens.
• Enjoys working with adoptive parents in groups and individually Thrives in a collaborative and integrated team environment.

What we offer

A friendly and supportive environment to enable you to have positive impact on the lives of children who need permanency. At Family Futures we invest in our team members' growth and well-being. As a Social Worker, you will have the opportunity of Level One Theraplay training to upon successful completion of the probationary period.

This is an exciting and challenging role, and a wonderful opportunity for someone who wants to be part of a team of professionals who are helping adopters to be therapeutic in their parenting and supported to meet the needs of traumatised children.

Benefits of joining Family Futures

• High-quality supervision and professional development training.
• We run regular Learning Forums to support and learn from each other
• An empowering and encouraging environment
• A nurturing environment for staff to work, including a weekly self-care session.

We believe that embracing different perspectives enriches our agency's culture and strengthens our ability to serve the children and families we work with. Therefore, we welcome applications from candidates from a wide range of lived experience and are actively recruiting people from the global majority, i.e. Black, Asian, dual heritage, and minority ethnic groups as they are currently under-represented at our organisation.

We are an equal opportunities employer and committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workforce. We encourage applications from suitably qualified applicants regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

Family Futures is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. The organisation follows safer recruitment practices to protect children and adults at risk of harm and will require the successful applicant to undertake an enhanced DBS disclosure.

Family Futures is a menopause friendly employer.

We are based in Finsbury Park, North London and offer a hybrid work model.

For an application pack please email Simran Sandhu, HR Administrator, by email via the button below or call 020 7354 4161. If you would like to discuss the role further, please use the above contact details and request to speak with Sue Hughes, Assessment Services & Permanency Director, or Philip Kane, Permanency Team Leader.

Further information about our services can be found on our website https://www.familyfutures.co.uk/.

Salary: £32, 000 - £40, 000 per annum.

Closing date for applications is midnight Sunday 31^st March 2024 with interviews scheduled to take place on Thursday 25^th April.