Leeds City Council

**Job Introduction**:
**Job Title**: Adoption Advisor

**Salary**: C1 £27,711 - £30,060

**Hours**: 37 hours per week

**Contract**: Permanent

**Location**: The base can be either Leeds/Bradford/ Huddersfield and will involve some working from home.

One Adoption West Yorkshire has an exciting opportunity to join the Regional Adoption Agency as an **Adoption Advisor**.

As an Adoption Advisor, you thrive on making a positive impact to the lives of children and families. You will be responsible for supporting the recruitment of adopters from initial enquiry, as well as supporting the finding of families for children and the provision of adoption support. This role will support children to maintain connections with their birth family, support with events such as fun days and deliver support groups for children and adopters.

Being an adoption advisor is a rewarding yet challenging role; it about the incredible opportunity to make a lasting, positive impact on a child's life and to support families through their adoption journey.

Leeds City Council is one of the largest employers in the region with over 14,000 employees. We seek to recruit and develop talented individuals who embody our council values and ambitions.

**About you**

As an **Adoption Advisor**, you will bring to the role:

- Experience of working with children and families
- Ability to communicate effectively with people at all levels, including written and verbal skills
- Ability to work on your own initiative and as part of a team
- Skills that will assist in the preparation and delivery of events, training and support programmes
- Ability to work under pressure and be reliable, flexible, and dependable.

**About the role**

As our next **Adoption Advisor**, you will play a crucial role in supporting the recruitment of adopters, ensuring compliance with safeguarding procedures, and maintaining and updating systems, records, and databases. You will also assist in the preparation and delivery of events and support programmes for those impacted by adoption. The role includes supporting children to maintain connections with birth family and supporting family finding for children. The role is integral to our One Adoption West Yorkshire team, where you will contribute to and learn from the best practices in adopter recruitment, family finding for children, and delivering adoption support services.

**What we offer you**

We take pride in offering the best employee experience, with benefits including:

- A competitive salary and annual leave entitlement plus statutory holidays
- Membership of the West Yorkshire Pension Fund with generous employer contributions
- Continuing professional development opportunities
- A range of staff benefits to help you boost your wellbeing and make your money go further

**Interviews will take place on: 3rd October 2025**

**How to apply**

If you have any queries or would like an informal chat about the role contact:
**If you do not have the right to work in the UK, you must consider your own eligibility for sponsorship for a particular role through the**Skilled Worker visa**route before applying. To be eligible for sponsorship you'll usually need to be paid the standard salary rate of at least £41,700 per year or meet one of the other eligibility criteria. Ensure you are eligible before applying.**

**Job Purpose**:
**Responsibilities**
- Provide a timely, positive and professional response to initial enquiries received from prospective adopters taking initial information, booking home visits and updating systems and databases.
- Take a positive customer focussed response to initial enquiries and ensure every effort is made to make contact with prospective adopters within the time limit stipulated.
- Arrange and conduct, initial home visits to prospective adopters within agreed timescales.
- Ensure that initial home visit reports are written up and completed within 48 hours and of a high standard.
- Prepare reports, maintain and update systems, records and databases and deliver excellent customer service at all times.
- Ensure all documentation including consents to statutory checks are completed without delay.
- Ensure compliance with safeguarding procedures and make clear that the safeguarding of children and the promotion of their welfare is given absolute priority in all recruitment, family finding and support activities.
- Contribute to and learn from the best practice in adopter recruitment, family finding for children and delivering adoption support services.
- Support the marketing and local area teams with community based recruitment activity and support adoption events where necessary.
- Keep performance records and written details/records of all contacts and contact activity, including all visits and to update records and database systems.
- Responsible for the interface with administrative and IT systems and to ensure that existing systems are maintained, developed and responsive to the smooth and effic