Lead Officer Adoption, Special Guardianship and Holding On

Salary: Grade 12: £51,515 to £58,857 per year plus 6% supplement in lieu of a lease car

Location: Scunthorpe

Hours: 37 hours per week

DBS: Yes Enhanced with Barred List Check

The Vacancy

Are you an ambitious social work leader, passionate about improving the lives of the most vulnerable children and their families? Can you build upon excellent practice, securing the best adoption and special guardianship outcomes for children? Can you innovate and inspire, supporting parents and carers to provide stable loving care now and into the future? If so, we want to hear from you!

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Lead Officer – Adoption, Special Guardianship and Holding On to join our outstanding Children and Families services in North Lincolnshire. Within this role you will provide leadership and management with key responsibility for adoption, special guardianship post order support, and Holding On, our local approach to supporting birth parents of adopted children. Working closely with social work and key partners, both locally and as part of the Adoption Links regional adoption agency, you will drive best outcomes to achieve our One Family Approach ambition for children to thrive in their families, achieve in schools, and flourish in their community.

North Lincolnshire Council is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all sections of our community regardless of age, disability, sex, race, religion, belief or sexual orientation. North Lincolnshire Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

North Lincolnshire Council offers, agile, flexible working and in-house training with a focus on the wellbeing of our workforce with access to an array of training and resources and support in your continuous professional development.

To apply and be considered for this position your application will clearly evidence the job description and employee specification attached.

If you would like any further information, please contact Jo Wilson, Head of Youth Justice and Regulated Care at Jo.Wilson@northlincs.gov.uk

The Council

We are collectively organised around the people and place of North Lincolnshire. Together we ensure that our communities are safe, well, prosperous and connected. We are ambitious for North Lincolnshire, we want our area to be the #BestPlace for our residents by being the #BestCouncil we can be. We achieve this through living our values – equality of opportunity, excellence, integrity and self-responsibility – in all that we do.