Vacancy Professional aid workers with didactic experience (24 hours)

Introduce…

Fiom is the expertise center in the field of unwanted pregnancy, distance & adoption and kinship questions. We offer information and help with unwanted pregnancy, education and aftercare in the field of adoption and guide people in their search for biological family at home and abroad. In addition, we manage the KID-DNA Database, which enables a match between a donor child and an anonymous donor. The basic principle of working at Fiom is the right of self-determination of unwanted pregnant women, the right of a child to know where it comes from and to grow up while retaining its own identity. We do all this with about 80 motivated employees from our offices in 's-Hertogenbosch and Houten and from our home workplaces. Soon we will start with the establishment and design of the Expertise Center Intercountry Adoption. This will be a network organization of stakeholders around the theme of intercountry adoption. Adoptees, adoptive parents, birth family and other involved parties can visit the Expertise Center for information such as access to files, psychosocial assistance, searches and legal support.

For Program Adoption Facilities we are immediately looking for:

Professional counselors with didactic experience

(24 hours)

The Adoption Facilities Program provides mandatory information and preparation for prospective adoptive parents and offers specialist adoption aftercare. We offer practical parenting support and, if necessary, refer you to the right assistance.

What does the job involve?

Together with a colleague, you provide information and guidance to groups of prospective adoptive parents. You are also part of the (telephone) source of information for adoptive parents, adoptees and professionals in the field of adoption aftercare. A versatile position in which you provide (prospective) adoptive parents, adoptees and their families, as well as professionals with the right information, guidance and advice, and in which you facilitate the transfer of knowledge. Your service-oriented attitude and capacity for empathy ensure that you get to the heart of a request for help, so that you can help or refer people further. You switch effortlessly between the different activities and you can set priorities well. You identify and initiate quality improvements.

What are you going to do?

You provide group information to prospective adoptive parents, so that they can make a well-informed choice whether to adopt or not and know what is involved in raising an adopted child.

You supervise the group process and you lead discussions together with a colleague.

You will deal with themes such as attachment, grief, identity, loyalty and trauma in relation to adoption.

You also give presentations to professionals and you give courses to adoptive parents about, among other things, trauma processing or puberty.

You maintain contacts with partners from the adoption chain and you contribute to the promotion of external expertise by sharing knowledge.

You contribute to the further development of the information and other meetings.

Who are you?

You have a (minimum) HBO working and thinking level with a completed psychological and/or pedagogical training.

You have several years of experience in providing training and/or information and you have experience in setting up an online learning environment and online interaction.

You have knowledge of and insight into the themes of the information provision and the laws and regulations regarding distance and adoption.

You have up-to-date knowledge of the developments around adoption and non-biological parenting.

You remain firmly upright at times of peak load. You have a service-oriented, flexible and energetic character.

You have experience working with heterogeneous groups, small and large, and you have knowledge of group dynamics.

You are able to contribute to the development of the Distance and Adoption knowledge collection.

You have excellent didactic and communication skills.

You master the English language and are able to provide information and courses in English.

You can work independently as well as in a team.

What do we offer?

A challenging job, work that matters and enthusiastic and pleasant colleagues.

We work hybrid, so you get a telephone and laptop on loan.

An appointment for 1 year, with the possibility of extension.

Salary in accordance with the Collective Labor Agreement for Social Work, scale 9 (€3,049 to €4,495) gross per month for a full-time employment contract of 36 hours per week

An end-of-year bonus of 8.3% and a holiday allowance of 8%, both part of a flexible individual budget.

Working days to be divided in consultation

Room for personal growth and development through a personal career budget.

Scheme for an allowance for commuting costs.

A pension insurance from the PFZW.

Apply

For questions or more information about the position, please contact Ans Rijk on 06-82306383 or Chris Thie on 06-82301049.

Do you see yourself in the profile? Send your resume and motivation to vacancies@fiom.nl no later than August 31, 2022 (link sends email)citing application for professional care providers. We will not process applications without a motivation letter. This vacancy is posted both internally and externally at the same time.

Acquisition in response to this vacancy is not appreciated.

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