Job Ref: 215626684

Date: 2022-01-21 14:17:07

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Registered Manager with Adoption experience needed for a specialist adoption agency based in Milton Keynes.

Connect2socialwork are urgently looking for a Registered Manager to join a specialist adoption agency which provide a range of services to people who have been touched by adoption. They are especially committed to recruiting adoptive families for children who wait the longest and have been supporting the most vulnerable children in society for 150 years.

They recruit adopters from approximately a 50-mile radius of our base in Milton Keynes and welcome all kinds of families for all kinds of children.

They are seeking an Adoption Manager to lead and support their adoption team into a post-pandemic way of working, creating stability, identifying more efficient ways of working and enabling excellence in the services offered to families and children. This is a senior leadership role in a charity and the postholder will be required to positively influence the development of the team and staff group and the experience of children, young people and families. The Adoption Manager also plays a key role in adopter recruitment, development of policy and practice – and will act as the Registered Manager for the service.

The postholder will work closely with the Adoption Support Manager to ensure seamless end to end support both before and after placement.

This adoption agency is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. They are an equal opportunities employer.

Job benefits:

* Hybrid working with remote working set up
* Great teams to work with, including two experienced consultants that share supervision duties
* Initial 6 month FTC
* Salary: Circa £45k FTE

Job Requirements:

* Eligible to work in the UK
* 5+ years post qualifying experience
* 2+ years management experience (minimum level 4 management qualification)

Benefits of working for Connect2SocialWork:

* Free DBS and compliance service
* Access to a wide range of roles nationwide, as well as exclusive roles to C2SW
* Your own dedicated consultant with extensive knowledge
* Work for an agency owned by Kent County Council
* Prompt and reliable payroll system
* "Refer a Friend" bonus – get £250 for each social worker you refer who we successfully place*
* "Warm Welcome" bonus – get £250 when you secure a role through our agency*

If interested in this role or any other, please contact Lisa Hallinan on (phone number removed) or email a CV to (url removed)

About Connect2SocialWork
Connect2SocialWork is wholly owned by Kent County Council. In addition to our links with KCC, we have managed services in place with Hampshire County Council, Surrey County Council and Luton Borough Council. We also provide available work with the majority of the local authorities nationwide. Our commitment to you is we will work proactively and tirelessly to market you until we find you that perfect role.

All posts are subject to satisfactory DBS check and references. *Terms and conditions apply.

Connect2Staff/Connect2Kent, part of Commercial Services Trading/Kent Ltd, is an equal opportunities Employment Agency & Business and positively encourages applications from all suitably qualified and eligible candidates

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