Senior Practitioner/Development Officer – Recruitment, Retention, Learning and Development

Scottish Adoption and Fostering; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity at a leading organization in adoption and fostering, where the successful candidate will help ensure the best outcomes for care-experienced children and young people. This role involves providing essential support to adoptive and foster families, facilitating their learning and development while working in a hybrid setting, including evening and weekend obligations.

Qualifications

• Experience in social work or a related field.
• Skills in training delivery and development.

Responsibilities

• Provide services to adoptive and foster parents.
• Lead delivery of Adoption Prep and Skills to Foster training.
• Support recruitment and retention of prospective foster and adoptive parents.

Skills

Communication

Empathy

Job description

An exciting new opportunity has arisen for an experienced worker to join the highly skilled team here at Scottish Adoption and Fostering. If you are passionate about helping us to achieve the best possible outcomes for care experienced children and young people through the provision of high-quality adoption and foster care we want to hear from you.

The post holder will have responsibility for providing a service to adoptive and foster parents and children/young people to ensure that the best outcomes for children and young people are always achieved in line with statutory and regulatory requirements, alongside Agency policies and procedures.

The role involves a range of tasks designed to support the recruitment and retention of prospective foster and adoptive parents. In addition, the post holder will have responsibility for the learning and development opportunities afforded adoptive and foster parents and staff including a lead role in the delivery of Adoption Prep and Skills to Foster training.

NB we operate a hybrid approach with a mix of home and office-based working. The role will include some evening and weekend work mainly linked to the delivery of Adoption Prep and Skills to Foster training.