Job Title: Team Leader, Family Connect
Salary: £41,511- 44,711 per annum
37 Hours per Week
Location: Wildwood, Worcester (Hybrid working arrangement)
Team: Family connect (part of the family front door)
Permanent
The Role:
As part of the Social Care reforms, we are further developing our Children’s Family Front Door to not only support the great work we already do, but to also develop this further; helping families access the right help and support at the right time, reducing their anxiety about being referred to children’s social care and preventing them from escalating into crisis or needing more acute services later on . This goes to the heart of what we want to achieve for our Worcestershire families enabling them to stay together and thrive within their own communities accessing the right help and support at the right time.
Family Connect will play a key role for families and children’s services helping families who do not need children’s services intervention and support to access community services and support at level 1& 2 (and potentially level 3 needs). Preventing them falling through the gap and not getting help and support when they need it and later on needing more acute or crisis support. Family Connect will also lead on information sharing with partners in line with Working Together 2023 and partnership agreements on requests of information and manage the early help in the community portal (in EHM).
The team will work closely with the other teams and pods both within the Family Front Door service area and the three new district Family Help teams. The management and leadership of the team will be led by two Team Leaders and there will be two full time equivalent Advanced Social Work Practitioner (ASWP) posts within the team.
As part of our design and implementation of the social care reforms we are pleased to be able to develop and offer this new role to our children’s social care workforce.
We currently envisage that as a team leader you will take a lead role in managing and developing the family connect team working alongside the ASWP’s in the team to support and supervise non-social work qualified colleagues in the team and carry out decision making on partnership “information sharing”, providing advice and guidance on safeguarding child and adult issues. This will involve having oversight of the allocation and throughput of work in the team, and timely decision making on a range of work at this level of need e.g. requests for information.
As team leader you will work closely with partner agencies, colleagues at the family front door and other stakeholders in the community to deliver safe and appropriate services to children and their families; supporting positive outcomes and reducing needs, risk and vulnerability wherever possible.
We are seeking skilled and experienced leader who has experience of managing, coaching and developing staff members and able to demonstrate a sound knowledge of safeguarding and the application of the levels of need; ensuring that families receive the right support at the right time.
This new family connect team will bring together a range of children’s services staff who are very skilled and experienced in this work and will provide you with a great opportunity to influence the design and development of this new service.
For an informal conversation please speak to Group Manager: Charmaine Anderson.
Benefits:
You’ll find an overview of the benefits Worcestershire County Council have to offer on our webpage
Some of these offers include:
- Great Holiday Entitlement: As well as bank holidays, you'll get 26 days paid holiday (pro rata for part-time staff). This goes up to 31 days when you have been with us for 5 years. If you get more than 26 days where you work now, don't worry because if you join us without a break, we'll match your holiday up to 31 days. If you’re successful and want to take advantage of this do let us know!
- Brilliant Pension Scheme: The Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) is a nationwide, career average pension scheme and is a valuable part of the pay and reward package for employees working in local government.
- Professional Learning & Development: We actively encourage learning and development for all our staff should they want to progress further or explore other areas within the organisation.
- Flexible Working: We are proud to offer hybrid working to provide a better work/life balance where possible.
Equality & Diversity: The County Council is committed to equality of opportunity for all citizens and celebrates the diversity of all its residents.
Application Closing Date: 5th August 25
Attached documents
Children's Team Leader JD PS.pdf
