Social Worker, Family Advocacy & Support Services

London Borough of Hillingdon (with hybrid work as applicable)

£40,837.92 - £43,960 per annum (dependent on experience)

Job Title - Social Worker Adoption - Family Finding

Contract - Permanent

Hours -Full Time (35 hours per week, Monday – Friday)

Salary - £40,837.92 - £43,960.00 (dependent on experience)

Location - Coram Ambitious for Adoption Regional Adoption Agency – Hillingdon location with flexibility for home working

Coram is committed to improving the lives of the UK's most vulnerable children and young people.

We support children and young people from birth to independence, creating a change that lasts a lifetime.

Coram is the UK's oldest children's charity founded by Thomas Coram in London helping vulnerable children and young people since 1739. Today, the Coram group helps more than one million children, young people, families and professionals every year by providing access to the skills and opportunities they need to thrive.

Coram Ambitious for Adoption Regional Adoption Agency [RAA] is a commissioned Voluntary Adoption Agency delivering statutory adoption support services and family finding located in the London Borough of Hillingdon Council building, but as part of the wider RAA partnership located across London and surrounding areas. The hub services for the RAA include the recruitment, assessment and support of adopters which is located at the Coram Campus in London.

We are currently recruiting for a Social Worker to lead and develop the family finding service for the London Borough of Hillingdon.

The post holder will be employed by Coram, a service with a long track record of serving children well and outstanding ratings from Ofsted. The task for the Regional Adoption Agency is to ensure that all children who have a plan for adoption are given every chance to have that ambition realised and when placed in a permanent family receive relevant support as their needs change and develop.

We are seeking a dynamic family finding Social Worker wishing to play an active role in the delivery and development of a high-quality adoption service but as part of the Coram Ambitious for Adoption RAA. The post holder will be responsible for being one of the professionals in family finding and assisting with providing a statutory post adoption service to local residents.

This includes working collaboratively with other family finders and post adoption workers across the RAA and providing targeted therapeutic support through the ASF. The post holder will have access to services within Hillingdon to undertake this task and be part of a bigger network of support from colleagues from across the RAA. All Coram staff are actively engaged in activities with colleagues to improve the quality of services and to develop themselves as adoption practitioner.

We are committed to making adoption happen for children where this is the plan and are very proud to be working with our adopters and our adopted young people in shaping the future of the service. We will be maintaining the very best of local authority adoption practice and the outstanding family finding services at Coram to deliver an innovative adoption service that will transform children’s lives.

The family finding service is a key platform of delivery for Coram Ambitious for Adoption regional agency that will be growing and transforming as the regional agency progresses in the next year, and new staff will play a significant role in these developments.

Closing Date: 27/11/2026

Interview Date: TBC

Coram is an equal opportunities employer and we believe a diverse workforce enables us to improve the services to the children and families we help. We are genuinely committed to encouraging candidates from all sections of the community we seek to support. This includes those from global majority ethnic backgrounds, those that identify as LGBQT+, those with disabilities, those with lived experience of care, those with neuro-diversity, and those from other groups who are underrepresented at Coram.

If applicants feel comfortable, we would encourage them to draw on lived experience as well as professional experience in their personal statement as part of their application.

We are committed to the safeguarding of children and where appropriate will require the successful applicant to undertake a check from the Disclosure and Barring Service.