Children’s Services
Early Help
Family Group Conference Coordinator x 2 posts
Ref: G7/OL-35042
Contract Type: 2 year fixed term
Salary: £31,371 - £34,788 p.a.
Hours: 36.66 per week
Based: Civic Centre
Closing date: Monday 20th January 2020
Shortlisting & Interview Dates: TBC
Job Description and Person Specification.docx
Role overview
Working within Children’s Social Care and Early Help, you will be part of a dynamic team working to implement a new and innovative Family Group Conferencing Service across Children’s Social Care and Early Help.
Key responsibilities
- 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 support the development of the Family Group Conference methods and ways of working at lower levels before families are in Children’s Social Care
- To support the role out of Family Group methodologies across children’s services
Key Requirements
To succeed in this role you will need:
- 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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