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Permanence Co-ordinator

Employer: Telford & Wrekin Council
Location: Darby House, Lawn Central, Telford TF3 4JA
Salary: £35745 to £38890
Closing date: 9 Mar 2021
Reference: TWC000004646

Sector: Health & Social Care / Work
Job Type: Social care
Contract Type: Full time permanent
Working Pattern: Flexible hours
Hours: Full-Time

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Permanence Coordinator

Salary Grade: PO6 £35,745-£38,890 per annum

Full-time - 37 hours per week

Would you like to work for an ‘Outstanding’ local authority – one with an established management team, committed to developing excellent practice and ensuring that our staff receive the best support we can offer?

Telford and Wrekin’s Children's Services invite you to join us in our exciting transformation journey. We are seeking someone with strong / outstanding adoption knowledge as well as ability to track and positively influence permanence for children and young people across the wider Childrens services system.

This is an exciting time for Telford and Wrekin’s Children’s Social Care as we move forward on our Transformation Journey. We are looking to recruit a Permanence Coordinator to play a central role in promoting good permanence planning and ensuring children within Children’s Social Care achieve permanency in a timely manner.

Following our successful bid to adopt the FAMILY SAFEGUARDING MODEL and MOCKINGBIRD in Telford and Wrekin, we are looking to recruit a Permanence Coordinator who is able to support the embedding of a ‘permanence culture’.

The post holder will:

• Provide consultation and guidance to front line staff with regards to permanency planning with a focus on achieving permanency.

• Refer children with adoption plans or in need of early permanence placements in a timely way to the Regional Adoption Agency and undertake regular liaison with the Regional Adoption Agency to monitor progress of children referred.

• Maintain tracking systems for Telford and Wrekin’s looked after children to monitor outcomes and challenge drift.

• Work collaboratively with the Performance Team to develop a performance dashboard and tracking system.

To excel, you’ll need a social work qualification and registration with Social Work England.

Telford and Wrekin Council takes seriously the responsibility to safeguard and promote the welfare of all the children and young people entrusted to our care and it is our expectation that all staff will share this commitment. We will ensure continuous development and improvement of robust recruitment processes and procedures that promote a culture of safeguarding amongst our workforce. Completion of an enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check is a requirement for working with children and young people.

This post is covered by the Code of Practice on the English Language Fluency Duty for public sector workers.

As per Job Description.

For more information about working for Telford & Wrekin Children's Social Care, please view our recruitment page: https://www.telford.gov.uk/cscr

Please contact Jan Bright if you have any queries regarding the post - jan.bright@telford.gov.uk or 01952 384445.

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Telford & Wrekin Council is an award winning council, and we were recognised as Local Authority of the Year 2022 at the Municipal Journal Awards, and the Association for Public Service Excellence Council of the Year in 2021.

At Team Telford we work hard to protect, care and invest to create a better borough and our employees are at the heart of everything we do. Having the right people, with the right skills, in the right roles allows us to deliver the excellent services that residents and businesses on the borough expect from us.

Our friendly and passionate teams are trusted by leaders and managers to deliver this ambition. We invest and nurture our workforce and support our employees to develop and thrive. The better we are the bigger difference we make to the people we serve.

In return we also offer a great range of benefits including competitive salaries, flexible working hours and work arrangements, employee discounts, salary sacrifice schemes, a local government pension scheme and generous annual leave entitlement.

At Telford & Wrekin Council, we know that having a diverse workforce is key to providing the best possible services to our community. We celebrate having a diverse and inclusive culture where people are able to be themselves at work, and everyone has a voice and we know we are stronger and better connected as a result.

We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and where our data shows that specific groups are under-represented within our workforce, our adverts will actively encourage applications from these groups.

We are also proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, committed to recruiting and retaining people with disabilities or other health conditions. You can find out more about this and our ‘guaranteed interview scheme’ here

You can also read more about our Recruitment and Selection Policy commitments and Recruitment of Ex-Offenders here

If you are unable to complete an online application form please contact the HR helpdesk on 01952 383601 or email hrhelpdesk@telford.gov.uk

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Website: http://www.telford.gov.uk/
Telephone: 01952 380000
Location: Telford & Wrekin Council
Darby House
Lawn Central
Telford
Shropshire
TF3 4JA
United Kingdom

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