Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: County Hall, Glenfield, LE3 8RA
Worker Category: Fixed Location Worker
Salary: £42,498 - £46,344 per annum (pro-rata for part-time) plus market premia £2,250
Working Hours:37 Hours per week
Contract Type: Fixed term / Secondment for (12 months )
Closing Date: 26th June 2025
Interview Date(s): 23rd July 2025
About the Role
Are you a passionate and experienced social worker looking to make a lasting difference in the lives of children and families? We're seeking a dedicated Senior Practitioner to join our Adoption Assessment and Support Team, where you will play a key role in delivering high-quality services to prospective adopters and adoptive families alongside the Team Manager.
In this pivotal role, you will lead on complex Prospective Adopter Reports, provide expert support and guidance to colleagues, and contribute to the continuous development of adoption services. You'll bring your deep understanding of attachment, trauma, and permanency planning, along with strong assessment and communication skills. You will oversee stage 1 assessments of prospective adopters and supervise the support workers within the team.
Join us in creating brighter futures-where your expertise and leadership will help children thrive in stable, loving homes.
An enhanced DBS check is required for this post.
For information on our approach to the recruitment of ex-offenders, please see our policy statement .
About You
To apply for this post, you must respond to and provide evidence of the following essential criteria within your personal statement. This should be no more than 1,000 words.
To apply for this post, you must:
* Have a Social Work degree or equivalent, e.g. CQSW, DipSW (with specialism in children's services) and be registered with Social Work England.
* Preferably, you will have a number of years of post-qualifying experience in Childcare social work, including experience in adoption, i.e., family finding and matching through to Adoption Orders.
* Be able to complete reports such as Prospective Adopter Reports to a high standard and work within tight deadlines where needed.
* Be able to evidence your skills and knowledge of creative, innovative, and relationship-based social work, working in collaboration with families and professionals. Ideally, you will already be confident in the application of the Signs of Safety methodology.
* 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 in balancing their working lives with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances while 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:
Caramjit Supra - Assessment Team Manager
Telephone: 01163055160
Email: Caramjit.Supra@leics.gov.uk
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 telephoning0300 3030222 (select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: https://emss.org.uk/support .
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