Family Group Conference Coordination Manager
Directorate: Health and Wellbeing
Division: Children's Social Care and Early Help
Ref: G8/OL - 18078
Contract Type: Fixed Term (2 years)
Salary: £34,106 to £38,052 (Grade 8)
Hours: 36.66 per week
Location: Oldham Civic Centre
Closing Date: Sunday 7th April 2019 (midnight)
Shortlisting & Interview Dates: TBC
Role Overview:
Working within Children’s Social Care and Early Help, you will lead and manage a dynamic team implementing a new and innovative Family Group Conferencing Service across Children’s Social Care and Early Help.
Key Responsibilities:
- To manage the Family Group Conference team and lead the development of the Family Group Conference service.
- To co-ordinate Family Group Meetings, responsible for preparing families and professionals for meetings and reviews.
- To be responsible for the negotiation, mediation and facilitation of the Family Group meeting processes.
- To lead the development of the Family Group Conference methods and ways of working at lower levels before families are in Children’s Social Care.
- To lead the role out of Family Group methodologies across children’s services.
Key Requirements:
To succeed in this role you will need:
- Management skills to deliver model across Oldham.
- The skills to engage children/young people, families and professionals in the Family Group Conferencing and Family mediation processes.
- You will need to believe in the effectiveness of family-led planning and work from a strengths perspective and have the energy and drive to progress the development of the FGC service.
- You will promote it within localities via meetings, presentations, written reports, data analysis.
- Support other colleagues to be able to be able to use the FGC approach to further embed the service.
- Knowledge and/or experience of the Signs of Safety approach to practice would be an advantage but not essential.
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