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Social Worker / Senior Practitioner
Social Worker / Senior Practitioner This 12 month fixed term post is based in the Recruitment and Assessment Team. The postholder will be joining a dynamic and progressive team where children are at the centre of everything we do. The role involves assessing applicants for their suitability as adoptive parents and Early Permanence carers and to support families through the different stages of the adoption process until an Adoption Order is granted. Coram Ambitious for Adoption Social Worker: £29,510.45 - £31,767.62 per annum (FTE £39,725.60 - £42,764.10) Senior Practitioner: £32,596.57 - £35,178.45 per annum (FTE £43,880 - £47,355.60) Coram Campus, Bloomsbury, London, WC1N 1AZ 26 hour per week

Exploring Expertise: Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder

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This session aims to provide adoption services and practitioners an overview of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD). It aims to help fostering and adoption services by providing strategies and resources to assist adoption agencies who are working with children or young people with a FASD diagnosis. Our presenters are Sandy and Martin Butcher, co-founders and co-chairs of the Hertfordshire FASD Support Network. Our Chair is Alice Sewell a trainer at NationalFASD.

Introducing PACE principles in practice

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The PACE parenting approach was developed by Dr Dan Hughes for parents and carers of children who are adopted or live in foster or kinship care families. PACE stands for Playfullness, Acceptance. Curiosity, and Empathy and is an attitude has proved to be helpful for many professionals working in adoption, fostering or kinship care services.

Events Officer
Events Officer We are looking for someone to join our small, dedicated team as Events Officer. This role is pivotal in organising and co-ordinating our webinar programmes, dissemination events and conferences. As part of the Training, Consultancy and Events team, they work in close collaboration with staff across CoramBAAF including colleagues with roles in policy and development and membership services. The successful candidate will be able to work on their own initiative; be good at managing priorities and meeting deadlines as well as being able to work with a wide range of external stakeholders. CoramBAAF £32,158 per annum Based at Coram Campus, Bloomsbury, London and hybrid of office and home working (at least one day a week in the office) 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

How seriously are we considering the impact of intergenerational trauma?

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Dr Lynn Snow reflects on her visit to the Salt River Maricopa tribal nation, where she explored their adoption, fostering, and kinship agency. She shares insights into the generational trauma experienced by the nation and raises important questions about how we can improve our support and practices.

Independent Social Worker
Independent Social Worker We are looking for independent assessing social workers to undertake Form F assessments. This is a hybrid working role and the postholder will assess prospective foster carers using a combination of video calling and face-to-face visits before making a recommendation of their fostering suitability. Our foster panels are usually held virtually. Action for Children £2000 per assessment (plus expenses) London and the Southeast Form F Assessor N/A