Permanence Team - Support Worker (Internal Applicants Only)

PLEASE NOTE THIS POST IS ONLY OPEN TO INTERNAL APPLICANTS

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location: County Hall, Glenfield, LE3 8RA

Worker Category: Fixed Location Worker

Salary: £31,074 - £33,294 per annum (pro-rata for part-time)

Working Hours: 37 hours Mon - Fri

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: 15th November 2024

Interview Date(s): 28th November 2024

About the Role

The work of the team is to provide permanence through identifying and matching children and adopters together. This requires taking the lead in securing early permanence by taking responsibility for a child's journey to an adoptive placement from the point that adoption is considered to be a potential outcome. The team are looking for experienced and passionate support workers to work within our stable and developing team alongside supportive and approachable managers and team.The post holder will be responsible for delivering family support services to children, first families, foster carers and adoptive parents. As a key position, the post holder will be responsible for providing some direct work and support services to children with care plans of adoption and with their first and adoptive families who need specialist advice and support.

The post holder will also be a key source of information on national permanence policies and practices for Leicestershire County Council's staff working in permanence services.

A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.

About You

To apply for this post, you must:

• Have an applicable qualification that demonstrates knowledge of child development/trauma and attachment
• Have an awareness of matching standards to support with family finding and post adoption contact in order to support children, foster carers, first families and adoptive families.
• Specific knowledge / experience / understanding of adoption issues unique to families who receiving services from the permanence team either first families or adopters caring for children with a care experiences and trauma backgrounds
• Be able to evidence your skills and knowledge of creative, innovative, and relationship-based practice, working in collaboration with families and professionals.
• Demonstrate enthusiasm and passion for practice and be committed to helping us build a real culture of reflection and learning.
• Commitment to Trauma Informed practice.
• Have a full valid driving licence and access to a vehicle.

You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.

In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.

Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.

Interested in Flexible Working?

We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.

Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.

For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:

Rebecca Gibson - Team Manager Permanence & Emma E Johnson - Team Manager Permanence

Telephone: 01163050904 or 01163052345

Email: [email protected] or [email protected]

How to Apply

Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.

To apply for this job, please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format, please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning 0300 3030222 (select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: https://emss.freshdesk.com/support/home.

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