Maintaining Links Support Worker
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Maintaining Links Support Worker
Location: Leeds, UK (Hybrid) | Closing Date: 03 December 2024
About the Job
ID: 1353 Maintaining Links Support Worker
Service: [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal], Leeds
Salary
- Grade 2 Point 16: £24,971 FTE per annum, rising to £27,504
- Additionally, £480 home-based allowance FTE per annum
Location: Hybrid work with travel to Hollyshaw House, Leeds
Hours: 37 hours per week (full time). Part time hours will be considered.
We offer flexible working arrangements.
Contract: Permanent
About [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] & the Role’s Impact
At [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] we support people through change, challenge or crisis. It’s what we’ve done for over 150 years. We protect children, support young people and adults and offer direct, practical help to families and communities.
We see first-hand the power of family to shape lives, for better or worse, so we speak up for the importance of family in national and local policymaking, amplify family voices and represent the changing needs of families in the UK today.
Are you passionate about supporting birth families in post adoption support? [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal], the UK's largest independent adoption support agency, is looking for a dedicated Maintaining Links Support Worker to join our busy Adoption Support team in Yorkshire. This role is central to our mission of placing birth parents at the heart of our work. We aim to provide compassionate, professional assistance to help families navigate post adoption contact plans with their children.
Main Responsibilities
- Supporting Families: Provide online one-on-one support to birth parents to help them stay in touch with their children through writing letters and other forms of contact.
- Emotional Guidance: Offer compassionate support to parents as they navigate the emotional complexities of contact arrangements.
- Remote and In-Person Assistance: Work with families both remotely and in-person, offering tailored support relating to post adoption contact arrangements.
- Commitment to Birth Parents and relatives: Uphold [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]'s core value of keeping birth parents central to our work, advocating for their voice in the adoption process.
Main Requirements
For details check the job description and person specification.
Benefits
- Annual paid leave entitlement commencing at 25 working days plus bank holidays
- Up to 6% matched-pension contributions
- Flexible working arrangements from day one
- Enhanced paid sick leave and paid family leave provisions
- Eye care and winter flu jabs vouchers
- Cycle to work scheme
- Investing in your professional development with ongoing quality training and career development opportunities
How to Apply
Download and submit a completed Application Form linked to the [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] job advert. Closing Date: Monday 2nd December 2024 at 5pm. For direct queries or if you would like to discuss any aspect of the selection process or flexible working requests, please email: [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal].
Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
We are happy to consider any reasonable adjustments. We are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Intersectionality is important to us and we particularly welcome applications from ethnically diverse communities, LGBTQIA+ candidates and disabled candidates. We offer a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role, and will reimburse your travel cost if you attend an interview.
*Ordinarily [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] appoints new starters at the starting point of the salary scale (with subsequent annual pay progression), unless you have experience that would justify appointment further up the salary scale or there are any other exceptional reasons.