Job vacancies
Adoption East Midlands launched in 2019 as a collaborative venture between Derby, Derbyshire, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire councils to provide a regional adoption service. Adoption East Midlands provides all aspects of adoption recruitment, assessment, family finding, and the coordination of adoption support services. We are a successful child-focused service, making a real difference to the lives of children and adoptive families.
Current vacancies
Adoption support social worker
We are looking for a suitably qualified and experienced Social Work England registered social worker who has at least three years post qualifying experience, with excellent interpersonal and assessment skills.
You will be instrumental in supporting families, from initial contact with the agency to carrying out holistic assessments in discussion with the family and professionals to identify their needs to determine the most appropriate plan of support. Alongside working with families where direct pieces of work are carried out with children/adoptive parents, you will also be involved in developing and supporting our programme of universal services which include information and resource sharing, co-delivering peer support opportunities and learning events.
You will be expected to contribute to improving outcomes for all our children and families and understand the concept of safeguarding children within adoption. You will need to be highly organised, flexible, and able to build excellent interpersonal relationships with service users and colleagues alike.
If you would like an informal chat, please contact Helen Redford on 0115 8040161.
You can apply for the vacancy on the Nottinghamshire County Council website here.
Adoption panel membership
We don't have any vacancies for panel members at this time however, we are driven to increase the diversity of our panels in respect of having a better mix of panel members from various ethnic origins. We welcome expressions of interest if you feel you can add value to our panels in this respect. You must also have recent relevant adoption experience.
For more information and to express interest, please email