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Team Manager - Adoption
Team Manager - Adoption This is a great opportunity for a high calibre Social Worker to take their first step into management, or for an existing Team Manager with relevant experience in children's social work to join Adoption Southeast (ASE), the regional adoption agency for the Surrey, West Sussex, East Sussex and Brighton area. The post-holder will need to demonstrate commitment to securing permanence for looked after children through adoption, capacity for contributing to ongoing service development and ability to collaborate with local authority and regional adoption agency colleagues. The post-holder will need to be a a confident casework supervisor who is able to provide robust management oversight of the prospective adopter journey and assessments of adoption support needs (for families who have adopted their children).
Surrey County Council - Adoption South East £48,632 - £52,625 per annum Woking, Surrey orbis/TP/18313/33465 36

Improving the local offer and approach to kinship care

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Dr Jahnine Davis, National Kinship Care Ambassador, recently published her Insights Report Improving the kinship local offer and approach to kinship care. The event is an opportunity to hear from Jahnine reflecting on the learning in her report and what this means for local authorities developing a local offer.

Senior Communications and Marketing Officer
Senior Communications and Marketing Officer The Senior Communications and Marketing Officer is responsible for devising and delivering a programme of regular membership and customer communications using a range of tools and platforms to achieve this and to monitor effectiveness. The postholder will plan and implement the production of high-quality marketing materials, communication tools and content (written, audio and visual) that raise awareness, drive engagement and generate take up of CoramBAAF’s member benefits and services. The postholder will maintain and develop brand assets to ensure all communications remain effective and consistent. The role is ideal for someone who wants to build on their existing knowledge, skills and experience in a small, friendly and busy organisation. CoramBAAF £35,000 per annum Coram Campus, London WC1N 1AZ (with flexibility for hybrid working) 35
Technical Administrator
Technical Administrator The Technical Administrator plays a central part in AFKA Cymru’s service. The post holder will take a lead role in the provision of a technical online service, as well as an administrative, secretarial and reception service and assists in the provision of information and advice to the general public, member agencies and specialist disciplines.

Mae'r Gweinyddwr Technegol yn chwarae rhan ganolog yng ngwasanaeth AFKA Cymru. Maent yn arwain y gwaith o ddarparu gwasanaeth technegol ar-lein, yn ogystal â gwasanaeth gweinyddol, ysgrifenyddol a derbynfa ac yn cynorthwyo i ddarparu gwybodaeth a chyngor i'r cyhoedd, asiantaethau sy'n aelodau a disgyblaethau arbenigol. AFKA Cymru £27,344 - £30,151 pro rata Home working with the ability to occasionally travel to the Cardiff office 30

Kinship Care Law Commission Consultation : Amendments to Current Legislation (SGOs, CAOs and Kinship Foster Care)

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The Law Commission has published its Kinship Care Consultation Paper. It sets out the key issues they have identified with the legal frameworks that govern different types of kinship care arrangements. Alongside reflections and analysis, the paper also sets out their provisional proposals for reform. Join our legal and kinship consultants for opportunities over three lunchtime events to hear the proposals and share your thoughts.

Facilities Coordinator
Facilities Coordinator We have a great opportunity for a Facilities Coordinator to join our small established team to support the work of the charity by ensuring our buildings remain in good repair and ensure an excellent standard of health and safety for our staff and visitors. The postholder will assist our Estates Manager in the maintenance of Coram’s buildings and grounds. Responsibilities will include monitoring the work distribution amongst our facilities team, logging and allocating work requests, delivering day to day repairs to our properties and overseeing contractors on site. The postholder will carry out regular checks, maintenance, and scrutiny of all locations at our site. Health and Safety checks and site security will form a regular aspect of the weekly programme. Coram £30,000 to £32,000 per annum (dependent on experience) Coram Campus, Bloomsbury, London 35

Anti-racist practice and cultural humility in social work

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FREE FOR MEMBERS
Our social work practice must be guided by the values and principles of anti-racist practice and cultural humility. This means embedding them into all aspects of our work with families, bringing self-awareness of our own biases, assumptions and privileges, and centering families’ lived experience. 

This course is an opportunity to understand key concepts and consider why anti-racist practice and cultural humility matter. You will be supported to explore how you can build relationships with families that honour diverse perspectives and recognise unique needs, and explore tools to enable you to better understand the identities of children and their families. You will then consider how this understanding can be applied to your practice to develop culturally appropriate assessments and interventions that reflect the lived realities of children and families and take account of their intersecting identities.

Adopting a brother or sister

Bookshop product- 978 1 907585 00 5 - Hedi Argent

This short, colourful booklet is part of CoramBAAF’s series of publications for children and young people, which aim to explain concepts in adoption and fostering that they may find difficult to understand.

Training Development Consultant
Training Development Consultant We are looking for a Training Development Consultant to join our Training and Events Team. CoramBAAF has a long-standing reputation as a provider of high-quality training, conference and consultancy services aimed at social work, health care, legal professionals and also, when appropriate, foster carers and adopters. CoramBAAF runs a workshop and conference programme across England and offers bespoke training services to agencies. The post-holder will work with the training team colleagues to quality assure and keep up to date training programme content including session activities, slides, workbooks, references and trainer notes according to CoramBAAF house style. The post-holder will work with the Training, Consultancy and Events Manager and CoramBAAF colleagues to develop new training events and materials, informed by customer enquiries, suggestions from associate trainer consultants and input from CoramBAAF colleagues. CoramBAAF £38,000 FTE Hybrid of home and some office based working in London 35 hours per week (spread over 5 or 4 days open to discussion)