Family Support Worker

**Family Support Worker**
**Scale 5 (£27,711 - £30,060 pro rata, actual salary £16,851 - £18,279)**
**22.5 hours, Part-Time**
**Permanent**
**Hybrid: Etrop Court and homeworking**

Application Deadline: 21 November 2024
Shortlisting Date: 25 November 2024
Interview Date: 2 and 3 December 2024
Interview Type: Face to face

**Your Role**

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Adoption Support Team at Adoption Counts to support our First response team.

This role will be predominantly based within our First Response Team who support adoptive families within our region. This role will also involve supporting young people and their families who are 18+. This will include supporting access to funding through the ASGSF, signposting to other services and offering advice and support.

We are seeking to appoint an experienced Family Support Worker who has a good understanding of:

- The potential impact of early years trauma upon a child’s development, behaviours and attachments
- Therapeutic parenting
- How to build positive working relationships with families and young people

**About You**

We are seeking to appoint someone who has a good understanding of the issues faced by children who have suffered trauma and the qualities needed in adoptive families to meet those needs. You should be a good communicator, a team player and be passionate about achieving positive outcomes for children.

**About Us**

Adoption Counts is a Regional Adoption agency, delivering adoption services in Cheshire East, Manchester, Salford, Stockport and Trafford local authorities. The agency was one of 5 national demonstrator projects and was the second agency to go “live” in July 2017 and continues to play a lead role in national developments and have strong links with the DFE. Covering a large geographical area, we function in a hub and spoke model.Hub functions such as recruitment, marketing, performance management, panel management and finance are based in Wythenshawe. The area is then covered from three geographical spokes-the northern spoke being in Salford, central in Wythenshawe, and south based in Wythenshawe and Middlewich.

Family support workers are based in Wythenshawe at Etrop Court. We offer a high level of management support while challenging ourselves to provide services that strive to be the very best.

Stockport local authority who are the host agency will employ staff, who therefore benefit from all Stockport terms and conditions.

If you are passionate about adoption, work to the highest standards and want to join a forward thinking agency, then this is an exciting opportunity not to be missed.

At Stockport Council we are one ambitious team on a mission to create opportunities for everyone who lives, works and spends time in the borough. Working at Stockport Council means contributing to one of the most thriving towns in the North. We’re keen to recruit people with the right values and behaviours that can help us ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do.

We are proud to be recognised under the Good Employment Charter as an organisation committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues. As members of the charter, we have been recognised as a great place to work for all colleagues and pledge to pay the real living wage, engage staff in key decisions and endorse fair and flexible working conditions.

**Click here** to find out more about the Employee Benefits you will receive when you join our team**

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