Family Practitioner

About the job

Key information

18.5 hours per week

What will I be doing?

This Family Practitioner role will sit within Adopt South West’s Maintaining Relationships Team – Adoption Support service.

The post holder will primarily support the functions within the Maintaining Relationships Team.

This will include:

• Supporting proactive planning and review of Keeping In Touch (KIT) plans. This will include providing advice, guidance and training to colleagues and external professionals, as well as conducting, and supporting others to, review plans alongside adopted young people, adoptive parents and birth relatives.
• Working to support positive Keeping In Touch arrangements through work to facilitate direct and indirect keeping in touch methods. This might include attending and supporting adoptive families, adopted children, and birth relatives to communicate effectively and enjoy positive time together. As well as supporting effective letter writing and other means of communication support adopted children and young people to gain a full sense of their identity.
• Supporting birth relatives to understand adoption processes where a plan of adoption may have been made for their child by a local authority. Supporting them to benefit the child, where they are able, through engagement in life story work and meeting with the adoptive family. There will also be signposting for birth relatives to other relevant support where wanted.
• Planning, providing and facilitating positive group work and support groups opportunities for adopted children and young people, adoptive parents, birth relatives and adopted adults.

The post holder will be expected to be flexible to complete other family practitioner tasks such as, family finding and assessment of adoption support need on occasion, but this will not be the focus of this post.

The post holder will need to work flexibly across the Adopt South West regional adoption agency area which covers Cornwall, Devon, Plymouth, Somerset and Torbay local authority areas. The work base therefore can be agreed to suit the post holder within the region.

What is in it for me?

• DCC embraces the positive benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to providing an environment that is inclusive and safe. We welcome applications from people who share our commitment to stop discrimination, challenge inequality and promote diversity across Devon. More information can be found on our Equality and Diversity webpages.
• Happy to Talk Flexible Working – The Council offers flexible working arrangements in terms of when and where people work e.g. hybrid working, part-time, condensed hours etc.
• We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
• This role requires the ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence and fluency in English.
• Personal data we collect from you will be processed in accordance with the Applicant privacy notice.
• For more information about Working for Devon please visit our Working for Devon page.
• We cannot consider visa sponsorship at this time. UK Right to Work is required. For further guidance on right to work in the UK, please visit: Work in the UK

DBS check

This role requires a DBS disclosure.

Supporting documents and information

For an informal discussion please contact Hannah Clay, hannah.clay@devon.gov.uk.

Please ensure when completing your application form that you provide a supporting statement which demonstrates how you meet the essential and desirable criteria as described in the person specification of the job description. Applications may not be taken forwards if the supporting statement is not adequately completed.

Apply on the Devon County Council/Adopt South West website

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