Adoption Family Finding Social Worker
4 days ago
Job description
Terms and Conditions: Full time, Fixed term until December 2026, 37 hours per week
Department: Children's
Closing Date: 30th November 2025
Interview date: 3rd December 2025
BwD is currently part of a Regional Adoption Agency (RAA). This post is based in our Blackburn with Darwen area of the RAA and includes statutory case responsibility for children cared for under Placement Orders as well as family finding to ensure that permanence through adoption is achieved where possible and appropriate. The work is very varied and involves getting to know and building a relationship with children for up to two years of their life.
You will start by tracking children who are on PLO or in the court arena alongside the allocated social worker, attending care planning meetings to help form the permanence plan for the child, advising the case holding social worker and at times the court on matters relating to adoption. You will ensure that the child joins a family that can become their permanent family at the earliest possible time. At the point that adoption becomes the plan you will visit the child, profile them and start to consider adoptive families who can meet their needs. From the point of Placement Order you become the allocated social worker and will gain statutory responsibility for the child, completing all LAC functions including visits, PEPs, reviews, etc whilst also continue family finding or progressing with a match. You will ensure that the child's voice is central and that all documents including the CPR and other life story documents are written in a way that will help the child to understand when they are older their identity, journey and the decisions made on their behalf.
The role includes direct work with the child to help prepare them for adoption and deepen their understanding of why they are unable to live with their birth family or foster carers. Finally, you will support the child in moving to their adoptive family, support the child and family until an adoption order is made and present the evidence to court which robustly analyses the ongoing need for adoption for that child with that family.
The role also allows opportunities to develop professional skills by taking on team and service wide roles such as delivering regular training, developing the information given to children, birth families and adopters and being involved in the quality control of elements such as early permanence.
Due to the nature of the role and the Adoption Regulations, it is ideally suited to a social worker who has three years post qualifying experience within Children's Statutory Social Work, however we would be happy to consider applicants with slightly less experience but relevant skills, knowledge and understanding.
Job detailsJob reference
REQ04448
Date posted
12/11/2025
Application closing date
30/11/2025
Location
Blackburn with Darwen
Salary
Grade H SCP , £39,862 - £44,075 per annum
Package
Blank
Contractual hours
37
Basis
Full time
Job category/type
Other
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