Senior Social Worker, Strengthening Families Team – Adoption support – closing date 27 July 2022

Are you committed and passionate about delivering high quality adoption support? If so, please join us! We are an innovative team who are creative and highly committed about giving children and families the very best services possible.

We provide support for a wide range of children including those over four years old, sibling groups, children from diverse ethnicities and who may have physical or learning disabilities. With access to our specialist therapeutic services, we are proud to provide excellent lifetime support for our families’ adoption journeys.

We are looking for an experienced adoption social worker ideally with some form of specialist therapeutic experience. We can support you to undertake training including Theraplay and/or Dyadic Development Practice (DDP) training to build on your existing knowledge and to support your success in the role. There will be external clinical supervision and opportunity to participate in regular DDP external supervision meetings.

As part of the Strengthening Families Team, you will be carrying out some individually tailored and in-person packages of therapeutic work with adoptive children and their adoptive parent/s. You will also be helping to plan and co-deliver some in-person therapeutic group work sessions (known as Adoptee Voices) on a regular basis.

Address Line 1
7 Southern Court
Address line 2
South Street
Town
Reading
Postcode
RG1 4QS
Postholder needs own transport
Yes
Contract type
Part timePermanent
Location
Central Reading
Salary
Salary in the range £20,869 to £24,348 per annum (£35,098 to £40,948 per annum FTE)
Contact
PACT HR, HR Assistnt
Mobile
07596 322630
How to apply

To join our inspirational organisation where you can make a real difference, please visit http://www.pactcharity.org/careers for further information, a job description and details of how to apply.

Open for applications from
29 June 2022
Closing date for applications
27 July 2022
Scheduled interview date
4 August 2022
Will my application be acknowledged?
All applicants, successful or otherwise, can expect to receive a reply from us in due course