| Salary £36,363-£40,777 Per annum | Permanent, Full Time, 37 hours per week | Pro Rata
International Sponsorship – this role is not open to international sponsorship
Are you ready to be part of a team committed to enhancing the lives of adoptive children, their families and adopted adults? Join us as a Social Worker, where your expertise will be valued, and your dedication celebrated. At Adoption, Lancashire & Blackpool (ALB) you will have the opportunity to significantly impact the future of adoption, and drive innovation within the field.
We're currently looking for an experienced social worker to join our Adoption Support Team within Adoption, Lancashire & Blackpool (ALB) which is a Regional Adoption Agency, hosted by Lancashire County Council (LCC). ALB delivers the Family Finding, Recruitment & Assessment and Adoption Support on behalf of the two authorities. This post is advertised as a grade 8/9, with the possibility of the successful candidate being appointed as a senior social worker practitioner subject to experience, knowledge and skills. As this is a peripatetic position, the successful candidate may also be required to work wihtin the wider ALB service.
Our Adoption Support Team provides support to families affected by adoption across Lancashire and Blackpool. This includes support to birth families and adopted adults. Our team offers a range of support from training workshops, social events as well as one to one support to children and their families. We also support adopted adults in understanding their early life history. This role is a permanent, full-time position.
Would you like to be part of an innovative and creative team?It is an exciting time for service, and in particular Adoption Support, where we have created our Adoption Communities and our Therapeutic Service. Our Adoption Community includes peer groups for adopted children, young people and their parents, specialist workshops and developing a peer buddying and mentoring offer, which you will host alongside our team members. In addition to this, you will be responsible for promoting our therapeutic service with our families with potential to co-deliver some of these workshops.