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Our client, Herefordshire Council is looking for a Qualified Social Worker to join their Early Permanence team. Adoption Central England (ACE) is the current Regional Adoption Agency (RAA) for Herefordshire Children's Services and was formed in 2017. Herefordshire joined ACE in July 2019 and this is when the Early Permanence Hub was also established, to ensure we achieve timely permanence for our children with care plans of adoption. The Early Permanence Hub is a small, friendly team now based in the CP/Court service, consisting of a Managing Practitioner, Family Finding Social Worker and Family Support Worker. The team coordinates and facilitates adoption family finding and robust matching for Herefordshire children. We are responsible for supporting social workers to identify suitable adoptive families with the appropriate therapeutic skills to meet the individual needs of Herefordshire children with care plans of adoption, now and across their life course. We work closely with Child ADM, prospective adopters and their social workers, the children's teams and fostering, and support the whole service with drop in sessions and advice on all matters relating to adoption. You will need excellent communication skills as you coordinate the team around the child. We offer guidance in relation to maintaining relationships with birth family post adoption, we diarise timelines to reduce drift or delay for children, and complete adoption matching panel paperwork. We support children's social workers through the adoption process from start to finish and mentor newly qualified workers, and those inexperienced in the field of adoption. We create bespoke transition plans for children, facilitate and chair a number of meetings for prospective adopters with professionals and manage all matching tasks to ensure children do not spend a day longer in care than necessary. We occasionally work out of hours to oversee transition plans with daily check ins' to ensure we continue to meet the needs of the child at every stage. We are responsible for collating all pertinent information on Mosaic to produce adoption data and have had positive feedback from Ofsted and partners about the quality of work we do and the impact upon children in achieving permanence. Benefits of working with Remedy A personal one-one service from your highly experienced dedicated consultant. Top tier supplier across London giving us first access to jobs Referral bonus - up to £250 per person placed. Double payrolls each week. Terms & Conditions apply You will be required to fully register with Remedy for all locum positions. Remedy Social Care is a APSCo Standard agency and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the vulnerable. Successful applicants will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the DBS. Our objective is to be an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from everyone with suitable skills and ability regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, gender, disability, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief. All applications will be accepted and reviewed solely on merit.
Barnardo's are excited to be recruiting to a new post - a Wellbeing Practitioner who will be embedded within the Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children and Young People (UASC) team within Nottinghamshire County Council. This new opportunity will be part of the larger Time 2 Talk team based within Nottinghamshire County Council's Leaving Care team. We are recruiting to one fixed term post of one year at 37 hours per week. This post will be employed by Barnardo's and will primarily be based in Arnold. However the post will involve travel across the County and potentially further afield depending on where UASC young people are located. Nottinghamshire County Council's UASC team works across children in care and leaving care services, and works with young people from the age of approx. 14 to 25. We are looking to recruit 1 full time (37 hours) Wellbeing Practitioner for one year with the following qualifications/skills/experience: A professional qualification (Minimum Diploma level), with evidence of continuing professional development in a field relevant to child and young person mental health Registered with a Professional Body such as BACP, HCPC, UKCP, NMC Experience in supporting children and young people in one or more ways detailed below: Person Centred Therapy Integrative Behavioural (DBT, CBT) Counselling EMDR An understanding of the challenges UASC young people face. An understanding of legislation and policies in relation to Safeguarding young people. A commitment to and understanding of the need to work with UASC young people in a trauma informed way. A commitment to working in partnership and collaborating with the Leaving Care team and Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust particularly the Transitions team, the Children in Care CAMHS team and Adult Mental Health services. Experience offering mental health support, consultation and interventions to young people and professionals working with them; ensuring the young person actively participates in planning their own support. Previous applicants need not apply. When completing your application please refer to your skills knowledge and experience in relation to the Person Specification, Job Description and Additional Information document (if applicable). This should be done with an understanding of the context of the service described. Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible. Pay & Reward Framework We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's values. We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people. For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which was rolled out 1st April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a key pillar of our People & Culture Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to grow and develop in their career at Barnardo's as it will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues to progress through the pay band of their role. Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the minimum to mid-point of the pay band - this ensures that pay progression steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours. More details on Barnardo's pay framework can be found upon application. Benefits Workplace Offer: What it means for you The world of work has changed. We are understanding of what works best for our colleagues both current and future as we look to embrace this new way of working. Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or any combination of these. Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements. 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing after 5 years service The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our HolidayPlus scheme A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options Service related sick pay from day 1 Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension Cycle2work scheme Interest free season ticket loans Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal 20% discount at Barnardo's stores Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer T&C's apply based on contract