Overview
Are you passionate about working restoratively and “with” families to enable families to live together? If you are, we have an exciting opportunity for a six‑month secondment to cover the Family Group Conference (FGC) Lead. The FGC service is part of the Edge of Care Service within Futures Matters and we are looking for an experienced practitioner who is dynamic, passionate, motivated and who wholeheartedly believes in supporting families to stay together through drawing upon family strengths and support to enable children to remain cared for within their family.
The core purpose of this post is to manage and allocate requests for an FGC into the team in a timely way, provide advice and guidance to our partner agencies and teams within the Local Authority, oversee management and quality assurance of service delivery and family plans, supervise the team and promote collaborative decision‑making. This post is for 18.5 hours per week, working the latter part of the week with attendance at the team meeting on a Wednesday.
Responsibilities
- Responding and managing all referrals/requests for a Family Group Conference into the team
- Allocating all requests appropriately to the Family Group Conference Convenors
- Providing advice and support to the districts around the criteria and appropriateness of holding a Family Meeting or Family Group Conference
- Providing quality supervision to the team, quality assuring all work undertaken by the team, and undertaking observations
- Working collaboratively with the Edge of Care Service, supporting other Senior Practitioners and teams and covering in their absence when required
Qualifications
- CQSW/Dip SW or relevant degree or equivalent experience and understanding of Family Group Conference principles, methodology, completed training, and extensive experience of undertaking Family Group Conferences
- Experience in coaching and mentoring others and having a supervisory role within Social Work
- Experience in undertaking observations of practice, quality assuring work that includes family plans and risk assessments
- Experience delivering quality supervision and providing high challenge/high support
Benefits
- Salary £45,091 – £44,075 (pro rata to 18.5 hours)
- Supportive working environment aimed at achieving a healthy work‑life balance
- Access to company rewards and benefits programmes
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