Hours: Part-time 4 hours per week
Salary: £10 per hour
Location: Home working, supporting families across Yorkshire and Humber
Duration: Fixed term for 3 months

We are looking for someone who ideally has personal experience of adoption but at least sound knowledge of current adoption issues, or a strong interest in developing such knowledge, to provide a peer support service to families across One Adoption North and Humber and One Adoption West Yorkshire. Some of the main responsibilities of the role are:

• Delivering a high-quality adoption consultancy programme to assist adopters in managing transitions
• Support individual families in the OANH or OAWY area with peer to peer goal-based intervention service over 3 months.
• To work with families to achieve agreed goal-based outcomes
• To work to a plan for transition
• To signpost families to relevant support
• To provide 6 online support sessions of 50 minutes via zoom covering the programme topics agreed within timescale.
• To follow a programme of support and monitor progress regularly.
• To empower families to work closely with schools, settings and relevant professionals encouraging them to build and strengthen relationships.
• To complete admin and paperwork relevant to the family including evaluation paperwork.

In order to be considered for this role you are required to complete an application form. Adoption UK is required to comply with a pre-employment vetting process for all prospective employees. Prospective employees of Adoption UK are to meet the following requirements;

• Provide eligibility to work in the UK and identity documentation
• Complete a satisfactory employment/education history check
• Complete a satisfactory enhanced DBS check

For further information on the role please contact Sam Parkin on 07468 690664.

Closing date: 27 January 2021

You can also download the full candidate pack below:

Candidate Pack

Download the application forms below:

Employment application form

Equal Opportunity Monitoring Form