Adoption Social Worker

Barnardo's Adoption Midlands and South West has an exciting vacancy for a Social Worker to join its expanding Service covering work predominantly in the Central / Midlands area. You will be joining an experienced and stable staff group who embrace working in a creative,open and transparent manner with adopters, to provide children with permanence in a family who understand the lifelong nature of adoption and the impactof issues such as developmental trauma, attachment and neuroscience.

As a Social Worker you have the chance to make a real difference in the lives of Children, Young People and Families by :

• Recruiting, assessing and approving a diverse range of adoptive families to meet the needs of waiting children
• Matching the needs of children nationwidewith the skills ofappropriate adopters
• Ensuring all adopters have access to excellent training, guidance and support when they require it, including managing ongoing contact with birth family
• Working directly with adoptive families promoting a trauma informed approach andhelping build and maintain family relationships
• Being part of Barnardo's undertaking to children, young people and adopters to continuously learn and improve

If you have a passion and drive tomake a positivedifference to children and adopters we would like to he...