Social Worker - Adoption Now

Location

Bolton, Greater Manchester | United Kingdom

Job description

Social Worker – Adoption Now

Adoption Now

18.5 Hours Per Week

Grade H/I scp 27 £17,872.50 to scp 35 £21,710.50 per annum – actual pro rata salary

(scp 27 £35,745 to scp 35 £43,421per annum – full time equivalent salary)

Fixed Term Contract Until February 2026

The Role

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An exciting opportunity has arisen for you to join Adoption Now, a busy, committed, and experienced adoption service.  We are keen to have an enthusiastic and motivated social worker to join us within our Regional Adoption Agency. Adoption Now is a partnership with Bolton, Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside, Bury and Blackburn with Darwen Councils.

The role will be based in the Adoption Support workstream of the agency and is based in Bolton.

Adoption Now has an ambitious plan for our Adoption Support service that includes a range of enhanced training opportunities. These opportunities currently include approaches such as Theraplay, DDP, NVR and Therapeutic Life Story Work to support and assess the needs of adoptive families. 

For further information please contact:

Maggie Crabtree 01204 336171

About You

You will have the skills, knowledge, and experience to ensure effective assessments and provisions of services to adopted children, adoptive families and birth families who require them.

You will be able to:

• Ensure that adopted children and their adoptive families who may need support, receive appropriate assessments which identify needs.
• Create, develop, and deliver a range of support services. (This may involve some evening and weekend working).Work with social workers and other professionals/agencies as appropriate, to ensure delivery of appropriate interventions and support to adopted children, their adoptive families and birth relatives as appropriate.
• Lead the development of responsive adoption support, including therapeutic interventions.
• Provide advice and consultation to social workers, link workers and adoptive families.
• Assist in the delivery of a training programme for staff and adoptive families.
• Cooperate fully with external monitoring of the service, including inspections.

You will need to be:

• A qualified as a social worker and registered with Social Work England.
• Experienced in assessments with good written and communication skills.
• Knowledgeable in safeguarding and statutory responsibilities in relation to children and adults.
• Able to demonstrate a high level of knowledge in relation to developments within the field of adoption support, and to assist the department in any changes necessary to maintain a high standard of service.
• Able to assist in the monitoring, evaluation, and performance management of adoption support plans, together with the wider service.

About Us

This is your opportunity to join us at an exciting time as we have strong ambitions for the borough. 

Bolton is a great place to work. We are a welcoming organisation that wants to contribute to a place where people feel active, connected and prosperous. We are passionate about improving the outcomes and experience of Bolton people. We want Bolton to be a vibrant place built on strong cohesive communities, successful businesses and healthy, engaged residents.

As an employer we want to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment, by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits, including discounts and exclusive gym membership prices and salary sacrifice schemes. In addition, we offer a generous annual leave allowance, flexible work opportunities, access to a Pension Scheme, as well as a range of employee wellbeing and support services.  

For more information about working for Bolton Council, please see the Work with Us page on greater.jobs;  for advice and support with your application, contact [email protected]

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We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An Enhanced DBS with check of relevant barred list is therefore required for this post.

This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English as per the person specification.

This organisation has signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. That means we will recognise your continuous or ‘unbroken’ service in any Greater Manchester local authority or NHS organisation, Transport for Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service or Greater Manchester Combined Authority, giving you access to our service-related benefits.

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£17.87k per annum