we are looking for an adoption social worker to join a voluntary organisation on a permanent basis in south east london this is an excellent opportunity to continue a rewarding and challenging career in social work your main duties will be to recruit assess train and support a diverse range of adopters and permanent carers for children to undertake work to achieve permanence for children to contribute to the development of the adoption agency ensuring the highest standards of professional practice to identify training needs and delivering training as required to undertake par assessments of potential permanent carers and annual adoptionfoster carer reviews presenting these to the adoption panel as and when required to provide regular support via telephone and supervisory visits to permanent carers to plan and facilitate support groups when requested to monitor and review the suitability and competence of permanent carers ensuring they provide a safe healthy nurturing and learning environment for childrenyoung people to ensure that permanent carers fully understand the task competencies to be achieved and the standards expected including record keeping and complaints and representation procedure to participate in negotiation with local authorities to ensure that each child or young person placed is carefully matched with a permanent carer capable of meeting their needs to endeavour to obtain all pertinent information including chronologies lac documentation and core assessment forms from the local authorities or other relevant parties as soon as possible and share these with potential carers to facilitate introductory visits to permanency carers and provide introduction information to monitor childrenyoung people and their families to ensure they are being provided with support services that respond to their assessed needs and that value diversity and promote equality to be aware of the child protection procedures and report immediately any matters concerning child protection or child care concerns to a manager the responsible placing authority and the area where the child is living to ensure that childrenyoung people s opinions and those of significant others are sought over all issues which are likely to affect their daily life and their future and are aware of how to raise any concerns or complaints to support permanent carers in preparing children and young people for independent or semiindependent living to undertake direct work and assessment of childyoung person adoptive parents and permanent carers according to identified needs working in partnership with permanent carers to help identify any needs within the family with all members of the child s network including contribution to all relevant meetings and any other tasks defined to participate in the duty and out of hours system as required to sit on an adoption and permanency panel or fostering panel if required you must hold a recognised social work qualification be hpc registered have a good working knowledge of relevant legislation including children s act adoption law child protection procedures national minimum standards for adoption and fostering services and the uk national fostering standards the successful applicant will be contracted to 35 hours