Team Manager - Regional Adoption Agency Adoption Partnership South East (ASPE) 

Role Responsibility

Family Finding Team Manager in the Regional Adoption Agency Adoption Partnership South East (ASPE)  (KR12)

About the role

We are looking for a Family Finding team manager to join our creative and forward thinking management group.  The Family Finding team is passionate about finding the right family for every child who needs an adoptive family.  They are developing new ways of working, ensuring every child’s needs are identified and that there is a bespoke plan of support in place to help a child settle and grown within their new family. The team works closely with the children's social workers across Bexley, Kent and Medway  by offering specialist advice at every stage of a child’s adoption journey. 

Skills we are looking for: 

• Inspiring leadership and management to promote the best adoption outcomes for every child

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

• The ability to work across APSE with assessment and adoption support colleagues to ensure the best use of resources

• 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 work flexible hours to fit with the needs of young people and families - including evening and weekends as required.

• Present complex information in writing and in person.

• Undertake confident analysis and decision making

• 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 child 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.

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.