Job vacancies
Adoption East Midlands launched in 2019 as a collaborative venture between Derby, Derbyshire, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire councils to provide a regional adoption service. Adoption East Midlands provides all aspects of adoption recruitment, assessment, family finding, and the coordination of adoption support services. We are a successful child-focused service, making a real difference to the lives of children and adoptive families.
Current vacancies
Adoption Support Social Worker
We are looking for a full time adoption support social worker to join our team for a fixed term period of 12 months. This is an excellent opportunity to join our Regional Adoption Agency, Adoption East Midlands and to make a positive contribution to supporting adopted children and young people and their families.
The post is within the Adoption Support Service and we are looking for a suitably qualified and experienced Social Work England registered social worker who has at least 3 years post qualifying experience, with excellent interpersonal and assessment skills. You will be joining our therapeutic helpdesk social workers within the Adoption Support Service who work across the Adoption East Midlands region (Nottinghamshire, Nottingham City, Derbyshire, and Derby City). Our helpdesk is multi-disciplinary, therapeutic team, working closely with peer mentors from the Peers4Peers service. The team are the first people families communicate with when they contact the Adoption Support Team.
To find out more about the vacancy please visit the Nottinghamshire County Council jobs page.
Adoption panel membership
We don't have any vacancies for panel members at this time however, we are driven to increase the diversity of our panels in respect of having a better mix of panel members from various ethnic origins. We welcome expressions of interest if you feel you can add value to our panels in this respect. You must also have recent relevant adoption experience.
For more information and to express interest, please email: PanelManagers.Adoption@adoptioneastmidlands.nottscc.gov.uk
