Adoption Support Team Manager

Role Responsibility

About the role

We are looking for an Adoption Support Team Manager to join our creative and forward thinking management group.  In APSE we have three dedicated teams that provide adoption support, post order,  to the families and children in our community.  We are unique in that our adoption support teams are multi-disciplined, with social workers, senior practitioners and senior therapists working alongside one another.    We have been successful in securing funding from the Department of Education to help us become a Centre of Excellence, for adoption support.  Our adoption support teams are passionate about providing creative and meaningful support to families.  We are looking for an experienced manager who has worked with families therapeutically.     APSE is also committed to becoming a DDP (Dyadic Developmental Practice)  informed regional adoption agency, so any manager joining our service would receive an opportunity to engage in this training. 

Skills we are looking for: 

- Inspiring leadership and management

- An enthusiasm for partnership working across 3 different LAs in the South East

- Knowledge of childcare legislation, statutory guidance and Child Protection Procedures

- Positively manage and contribute to service development within the team and across the service

- Ability to present complex information in writing and in person.

- Ability to undertake confident analysis and decision making

-  Ability to work with Case Management systems and ensure management information in maintained.

About you

Your social work degree – CQSW, DipSW or equivalent – must be supported by professional registration and extensive post-qualification experience. This experience should include supervision, adoption or permanency planning, joint working with partners in the statutory, private and voluntary sectors. You should be confident in your ability to lead and develop a team and with an in-depth understanding of safeguarding procedures, legislative frameworks and social work theories relating to children’s services, you’ll have the expertise needed to contribute to practice and policy development.

In return, we offer an attractive, a competitive salary, £3000pa retention payment after qualifying period, £2000 car allowance and a good pension scheme.

This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure application to the Disclosure and Barring service and registration as a qualified Social Worker with Social Work England.

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Closes 18th May with interviews on 22nd May.

Contact Details

For more information or an informal discussion about this post, please contact Rachel Dobson - rachel.dobson@kent.gov.uk 

About the Company

KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county's working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds and faiths, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

Please note – if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.