At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead a team to support adopted adults and their families, ensuring high-quality service delivery.
- Company: Respected organisation dedicated to making a meaningful difference in people's lives.
- Benefits: Generous leave, matched pension contributions, professional development, and health perks.
- Other info: Join a forward-thinking team committed to excellence and continuous improvement.
- Why this job: Make a real impact while shaping the future of adoption services.
- Qualifications: Professional qualification in social work or counselling with experience in post-adoption work.
The predicted salary is between 40000 - 50000 £ per year.
This is an important opportunity to join a respected service supporting adopted adults, birth family members and their descendants, and to help shape high-quality practice that makes a meaningful difference in people’s lives.
Main Responsibilities:
- Provide professional leadership, supervision and operational oversight across intermediary services.
- Support a team of PAYE and sessional Intermediaries and Researchers, oversee service quality and safeguarding practice, and contribute to service development and strategic growth.
- Build strong relationships internally and externally, ensuring that our services remain responsive, safe and effective.
- Provide supervision, guidance and practice leadership to Intermediaries and Researchers.
- Oversee referrals, allocations, case progression and case closure across the service.
- Support decision-making in complex and higher-risk cases, including safeguarding concerns.
- Lead service development, quality assurance activity and continuous improvement work.
- Maintain oversight of active cases and case records to ensure high standards of practice.
- Represent the service in meetings with internal colleagues, commissioners and external professionals.
- Support recruitment, induction, training and ongoing development of staff and sessional workers.
Main Requirements:
- You will hold a professional qualification in social work, counselling or psychotherapy, and bring strong knowledge of the lifelong impact of adoption.
- You will have experience in post-adoption and permanency work, alongside the confidence to supervise staff, manage competing priorities and contribute to service development.
- We are looking for someone with excellent communication, sound judgement, a collaborative approach and a clear commitment to safeguarding, equality, diversity and inclusion.
Benefits:
- An annual paid leave entitlement that commences at 25 working days (pro-rata), and after a full year of service, rising each April by one day, subject to a maximum of 30 working days plus bank holidays.
- Up to 6% matched-pension contributions.
- 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.
We are forward looking, ambitious and committed to continuous improvement. We are a people focused, can-do organisation, which strives for excellence in all we do and operates with mutual respect.
Locations
Private Intermediary Practice Manager in Leeds, London employer: PAC-UK Part of Family Action
Join a forward-thinking organisation dedicated to making a meaningful difference in the lives of adopted adults and their families. As a Private Intermediary Practice Manager, you will benefit from a supportive work culture that prioritises professional development, offers generous annual leave, and provides a range of employee benefits including enhanced sick leave and a cycle to work scheme. With a strong commitment to safeguarding, equality, and continuous improvement, this role presents an excellent opportunity for those looking to grow in a collaborative and impactful environment.
Contact Details:
PAC-UK Part of Family Action Recruitment Team
