Self-employed Form F Assessor
As a self-employed worker with Barnardo’s, the post holder will be a part of our amazing team of professionals working with our organisational values at the heart of their everyday practice. We are recruiting registered social workers to undertake Form F assessments on an independent basis. This is a home working role, combined with face-to-face visits to families where the post holder will get to know the applicants better and undertake health & safety assessments. We are particularly looking for assessors who can potentially work with applicants across the South-East and South of England, including London and parts of Essex.
Barnardo's Fostering South East and London
£2,000 per Form F Assessment plus 40p mileage
South, South East, London, Essex, plus North East and Yorkshire
Various
Fostering Panel Chair
Hertfordshire Fostering Service is looking to recruit an experienced, self-employed professional, who holds a Social Work Qualification, to act as an Independent Chair for Hertfordshire Fostering Panels. It is desirable that applicants have existing experience as a Chair or Vice Chair of fostering panels, with an appreciation or lived experience of foster care.
Hertfordshire
£600 per day and £300 per half day
Stevenage or MS Teams virtual meetings
Fostering Panel Chair
Varied
Administrator
Contract: Fixed term until 28th February 2025. This is an exciting role for an Administrator to join our Adoption Team. The successful candidate will support the busy adoption telephone enquiry line and on line enquiries offering a crucial supportive role to the Duty Manager. This will involve responding to members of the public who want to find out more about adoption with Coram, providing advice and guidance as required. The role also involves co-ordinating information events and adoption activities
Coram Ambitious for Adoption
£15,195 per annum (FTE £25,325)
Coram Campus, Bloomsbury, London, WC1N 1AZ (Hybrid working with the expectation that staff come into the office at least one day per week)
21 hours per week
IRM Medical Adviser
We are looking for a Medical Adviser to provide medical advice to IRM panels reviewing determinations by fostering agencies and determinations by adoption agencies in England who are minded not to approve or to terminate the approval of applicants. The Medical Adviser will be responsible to the IRM Contract Manager and Service Manager but will also need to develop working relationships with the IRM caseworkers and administrative team and the panels they are providing advice for.
Independent Review Mechanism
An hourly rate of £38.25 (currently under review) is payable for medical advice and £33.30 for panel attendance (also currently under review)
Homebased
Variable depending on service needs and caseload
Adoption South East Panel Chair
Adoption South East is seeking to appoint an Independent Panel Chair for one of our three Adoption Panels. Adoption South East is the Regional Adoption Agency created by a strong and creative partnership between West Sussex, Brighton and Hove, East Sussex and Surrey Councils. The Independent Chair will be employed by East Sussex County Council who host the central functions of the Adoption South East and they will be supported by a Panels Manager, Panel Adviser and a Panel Administrator. The successful applicant will have current experience as the Chair of a Panel and have confidence in effectively chairing complex meetings. The Panel Chair will take responsibility for ensuring that business is conducted in accordance with the adoption regulations, standards, and guidance and in keeping with the regional agency's policies and procedures.
Adoption South East
£500 per Panel
Virtual
orbis/TP/202663/39114
Variable (usually two Panels each month on a Wednesday)