Social Work Adviser

Our work includes:
- Our free specialist advice and advocacy service, staffed by experts in child welfare law and practice, supports parents and kinship carers in England, helping them to understand their rights and options.
We pioneer innovative child welfare practices so that children can live safely in their family. For example, we introduced family group conferences to the UK so families lead on making a safe plan for their child’s welfare.
- Lifelong Links: We designed this approach to build and strengthen family and support networks for children and young people in care across the UK.
- We are the leading national policy and legal authority on kinship care. Our campaigning successes include securing the two-child tax credit exemption for kinship carers and recent reforms to legal aid. We provide the secretariat to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Kinship Care and the Kinship Care Alliance.
- We support families to use their voices and experiences to help shape the child welfare and family justice system including through our parents’ and kinship carers’ panels.
- As Social Work Adviser you will be an integral part of Family Rights Group’s social work team, while playing a key role in influencing the charity’s work, including policy, advice, project and campaign activities.

Due to exciting recent developments and funding, this role will also act as the strategic lead in the development of the organisation’s family and young people’s engagement work.

The scope of the role will ensure that you build on the organisation’s strong reputation with social care practitioners and decision-makers, keeping ahead of relevant research developments and best practice locally and internationally, and putting the experiences of families at the centre of child welfare discussions.

In all areas of your work, you will listen to the families we are working with and will be focused on ensuring that our work addresses their needs.

Benefits of working for Family Rights Group include:
- A generous pension (5% employer contribution).
- 27 days holiday allowance (rising to 30), plus 3 additional days at the end of the year.
- Playing a key role in a nationally-recognised and growing programme.
- A wide-ranging Employee Assistance Programme for all staff and other well-being initiatives, including a cycle to work scheme.
- Joining a small team of committed staff in a values-driven organisation.
- This is a full-time role, but we will also welcome flexible requests and if applying for less than full-time hours, this should be specified in the application form. Below is a full job description and person specification for the role. Please read it carefully before applying.

The charity is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion in all aspects of its work, including employment.

We are committed to being a disability confident employer. As well as providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process, we are actively seeking applicants with disabilities for our roles.

Interviews will be provisionally held online on 23rd November.
‘If you would like an informal conversation about the role prior to applying, please contact Pam Ledward (pledward@frg.org.uk).

To apply, kindly submit an application form and equal opportunities monitoring form to office@frg.org.uk by by 13th November (9am).