Job Title : Senior Social Worker

Service : CoramIAC

Salary : £38,000 - £42,000 per annum

Hours : 35 hours per week

Contract : Fixed-Term - 6 months

Location :   Based in our Cockfosters Office until January 2025 then moving to Coram Campus (with hybrid home working)

About Coram

Coram is committed to improving the lives of the UKs most vulnerable children and young people.

We support children and young people from birth to independence, creating a change that lasts a lifetime.

Coram is the UKs oldest childrens charity founded by Thomas Coram in London helping vulnerable children and young people since 1739. Today, the Coram group helps more than one million children, young people, families and professionals every year by providing access to the skills and opportunities they need to thrive.

About CoramIAC

Coram IAC, is a Voluntary Adoption Agency, which specialises in Intercountry Adoptions.

Coram IAC - Intercountry Adoption Centre - now part of the of children's charities have been working with families adopting from across the world for over 26 years. Coram IAC is a charity, not-for-profit and an accredited, legally registered adoption agency. We run outstanding services to support children and families affected by adoption. With the majority of our adopters being from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds adopting from countries they are connected to our staff team also reflect this diversity. We have had four consecutive outstanding judgements from Ofsted, our regulator,

About the role

The primary role of Senior Social Worker (Intercountry Adoption) is to assist the work of the Assessment Team Manager in managing the two-stage approval process at Coram IAC. The role will include some face to face client contact in the form of complex case work, second opinion visits, risk assessments, initial interviews, progress decisions, training sessions etc. The Senior Social Worker will support the monitoring and management of the day to day running of the assessment processes for applicants; the Assessment Team Manager will oversee this.

Coram IAC predominantly serve prospective adopters from the global majority and as such recruit and train a highly diverse and skilled group of adopters to enable the best outcomes for

They will be responsible to the Senior Leadership and Operational Management Team and Assessment Team Manager and Senior Social Workers. Internal relationships will be principally with case workers, other Senior Social Workers and Senior Business Support throughout the Agency.

They will be a team player who is comfortable at the prospect of working in a small, busy and growing agency. Being organized, effective and able to work in a creative and flexible manner are essential to the role.

To apply for this role, please click on the 'apply now' button below to complete the application.

Closing Date : Monday 22nd July at 9am

Interview Date : Friday 26th July 2024

Coram is an equal opportunities employer and we believe a diverse workforce enables us to improve the services to the children and families we help. We are genuinely committed to encouraging candidates from all sections of the community we seek to support. This includes those from, Asian, African, Caribbean and other minority ethnic backgrounds, those that identify as LGBTQ+, those with disabilities, those with lived experience of care, those with neuro-diversity, and those from other groups who are underrepresented at Coram.

If applicants feel comfortable, we would encourage them to draw on lived experience as well as professional experience in their personal statement as part of their application.

We are committed to the safeguarding of children and where appropriate will require the successful applicant to undertake a check from the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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