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Administrative Assistant (Training and Events)

| CoramBAAF

We are a looking for an administrative assistant to join our small but busy, dedicated and friendly team. We arrange over 150 courses a year for more than 3000 people on a wide range of topics supporting practitioners in adoption, fostering and kinship. Courses are delivered online as well as in person. We pride ourselves on working as collaboratively as possible, while also recognising our individual areas of expertise and responsibility. The postholder will play a key part in the effective coordination and smoothly running of our training and events programme.

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Team Manager (Fostering)

| Community Foster Care

As a Team Manager (Fostering) at Community Foster Care the postholder will promote the ambitions and dreams of children, by leading and enabling our team of Supervising Social Workers and Family Support Workers, whilst reporting to the Registered Manager.  The postholder will do this by recruiting, enabling and enhancing foster families to provide safe, stable, loving, nurturing family homes.  The postholder will harness CFC resources and therapeutic approach to achieve this. We have two Team Manager posts, one based in Lancaster and one in Gloucester. Each will take a lead on managing and developing a specialist area.  Therapeutic and Practice Development or Recruitment and Retention of Foster Carers

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Independent Social Worker

| Coram IAC

We are seeking to recruit experienced freelance Social Workers to assess applicants for their suitability as adoptive parents and Early Permanence carers. The postholder must be able to take work in London and the surrounding counties. Applicants must be self-motivated, able to work to deadlines and be flexible in meeting the needs of the applicants and the agency. Substantial experience in adoption work is essential. An Induction and ongoing training will be provided.

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Fostering, Adoption & Permanence Panels Members

| Southend-on-Sea City Council

We are looking to recruit independent Fostering, Adoption & Permanence Panel members with a variety of personal and professional experiences to join our central list of Panel Members and ensure we have sufficient members to enable Panel to carry out its regulatory functions. Our aim is for our Fostering, Adoption & Permanence Panels to be fully representative of the children, carers and families that we work with in Southend-on-Sea and of our local population and local communities. We are interested in recruiting people from a range of diverse backgrounds and experiences but particularly in candidates who are care-experienced, those from diverse and underrepresented communities and backgrounds and those with experience of being a foster carer or kinship carer and those from related professions such as Police, Education and Health. We are particularly interested in recruiting experienced qualified social workers interested in the work of fostering and adoption to our panel central list.