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Full Time Permanency Service Team Leader (37.5 hours pw)
- Are you experienced in managing fostering and/or adoption services?
- Are you committed to providing the best quality foster carers and adopters for troubled children?
- Do you want to work in a multi-disciplinary team of skilled professionals to ensure good therapeutic Post Adoption and Fostering support, and to motivate and support other social workers to do so too?
If the answer’s ‘yes’ – get in touch!
Why? Family Futures is:
- An adoption and adoption support agency awarded an outstanding rating by OFSTED in 2018 for our third consecutive inspection.
- Has a reputation for innovation and offering a high-quality service - an integrated multi-disciplinary assessment, treatment and family finding service for adopted and fostered children who often are more challenging to place or to maintain in placement.
- Now developing a therapeutic fostering service to bring our skills and wrap-around support to children in care
As the Permanency Service Team Leader you will be responsible for continuing to develop and support our Adoption Service, be a central part of developing our exciting new Therapeutic Fostering Service and manage the staff within these services to help them maximise and develop their skills and practice.
We Need an energetic experienced manager with a background in permanency services who will lead a small team of social workers in the Permanency Service and carry a small caseload of assessing adopters and foster carers, and post approval support. You will also (for an additional salary element) take a turn at staffing the out of hours support line.
Ideally applicants will have experience of both fostering and adoption. However, given our experience in adoption, it is more essential that the Permanency Team Leader brings experience and knowledge of fostering and is willing to build their skills in adoption.
We Offer:
- High quality support, supervision and training
- The opportunity to work creatively, as a key part of our multi-disciplinary team, in a child-centred way, informed by current research, using a well-evidenced model of understanding the need of children with traumatic histories.
- Small caseloads, meaning you can work in depth with families and support the staff team to do so
- Competitive salary and a supportive working environment, which recognises the stress of this type of work and nurtures staff, enabling staff to grow their skills and gain satisfaction from supporting carers/adopters to become therapeutic parents and children to heal and thrive.
Family Futures is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We expect all staff to share our commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and follow safer recruitment practices to protect children and adults at risk of harm, requiring the successful applicant to undertake an enhanced DBS disclosure.
This is a permanent position. Salary: £46,000 - £51 000 per annum
In response to Covid 19 we have had to adapt our services, therefore the role is currently largely home-based with some days at our office in Islington.
Closing date for applications is midnight Sunday 14th February 2021 with interviews scheduled to take place on Monday 22nd February 2021.
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Head of Student Development and Activities
Salary: £30,614 (£33,629 fte)
Hours: 32 hours per week if start before June 2021. Full time hours (36.25 pw) 1st June 2021 onwards
Contract: Permanent
Team: Student Opportunities and Development
Reports to: Assistant Director of Charitable Services
uea(su) is a vibrant, fast paced, student-led environment and we are looking for a new Head of Student Development and Activities to lead our Activities and Opportunities team. The team is part of the charitable side of the SU and works collaboratively with our Student Voice, Advice and Communications, Marketing and Insight departments, as well as with our colleagues in the commercial side of the organisation.
As the strategic lead for student volunteering across the organisation you will be responsible for developing our training, support and recognition framework for our volunteers, ensuring that they get the most of their volunteering experience in terms of enjoyment, skills and employability. You will also be skilled in stakeholder management, working closely alongside our elected student officers and our partners at UEA.
You will be experienced in event management, engaging students or young people in activities, opportunities and volunteering, and embedding a safety culture in all of the above.
This role is responsible for ensuring the broadest range of students engage in our activities and student groups, so you will be closely involved in our anti-racism and diversity work, as well as managing our outreach and widening participation projects.
Our team is friendly, inclusive and dedicated to providing students with the best experience – whether that is through our Buddy scheme for first years, our online Flativities programme for housemates or the hundreds of student-led clubs and societies that we support.
All Student Union staff are currently taking a temporary reduction in hours to reduce expenditure during the pandemic. If appointed before June 2021 then this role will be working 32 hours per week. From 1st June onwards it is anticipated that the role will be employed on a full time (36.25 hours per week) basis
We’re committed to equality of opportunity for all and are passionate to ensure that our staff reflect the diverse student body we serve. We welcome applications from individuals regardless of their race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, age, gender, or disability. You can be yourself with us and be part of a union that celebrates diversity.
Closing date: Monday 15th March 2021
Interviews: Will be held remotely on 25th March 2021.
For more details and how to apply please visit our website: https://www.ueasu.work/career-staff-roles
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.