About the role
This is a permanent contract working 37 hours per week. This post is based in Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Adoption which is the Regional Adoption Agency providing adoption services for Cambridgeshire & Peterborough.
This is an exciting time to join Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Adoption as we have established ourselves as Regional Adoption Agency and developing our services to improve performance and develop innovative best practice.
You will be providing the Birth Relative Outreach Support to birth relatives of children who have been adopted. It is a hugely rewarding role and will be working alongside a dynamic and therapeutically trained adoption support team.
For more information or to chat about this opportunity please contact Kelly Johnson at Kelly.Johnson@cambridgeshire.gov.uk.
What will you be doing?
As a Support Worker, you will provide independent ‘counselling’ services to birth parents/relatives who have children in the adoption process or who have children that have already been adopted. This will include emotional support, signposting to a range of other services, giving and clarifying information about the adoption process and occasionally supporting birth relatives with direct contact. You will need to be able to travel around the region.
About you
You will need:
- A Professional Counselling / Psychotherapy Qualification and registration with a relevant professional body i.e. BACP, UKCP, UKRCP, BPS
- Ability to prioritise tasks and work on own initiative against deadlines
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Proven negotiation skills especially when working with customers who may be upset and stressed
- Self-sufficient in planning and organising own work, including recording, storing and retrieving required data and information
- To be an active team player by contributing to the development of the service, ensuring the customer is always at the centre of such developments
- Good ICT skills
- Fluent in English
Our benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits:
- Flexible working
- Flexible Bank Holidays
- A comprehensive wellbeing package
- Our Cambs Rewards employee discounts
- A comprehensive pension scheme.
- IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network.
- Camweb our staff intranet helping to keep you informed
- An employee recognition scheme
About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities.
Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.
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