Team Manager - Family Help

An exciting opportunity has become available in our North Family Help team. We are looking for a dedicated individual to manage the Family Help team within our Neighbourhood Services for Children and Families, providing support, supervision and operational oversight of the day to day function of the team. The team is a multi-disciplinary team including Keyworkers, Social Workers, Parenting Practitioners, Youth Workers and various specialist workers, working with children and families with multiple and complex needs to ensure positive outcomes.

The role: You will work closely with the Deputy Service Manager to lead the team in overseeing the delivery and quality of targeted interventions with children, young people and their families. You will provide casework supervision (including case direction and reflective practice) and professional consultation to Family Help Supervisors and other practitioners working within Family Help services, promoting the development of teams’ practice knowledge and of service delivery. You will ensure the highest professional standards are delivered through robust quality assurance processes in order to maintain excellent knowledge of legislation, regulation and practice methods, including Signs of Safety, Systemic and the Bristol Practice Framework. You will provide multi-agency and partnership working through chairing of complex multi-agency and family meetings, as well as representation at strategy meetings and Locality meetings.

Please note that this role is also subject to an Enhanced DBS Check.

Why Bristol City Council? At Bristol City Council, we go that extra mile for our people; we offer a work environment which is fast moving and supportive, giving you the chance to use your skills and develop new ones within a high-profile organisation. Join us and you’ll receive an excellent rewards package including flexible working and flexitime, membership of the Local Government Pension scheme, and a generous annual leave allowance. In addition, you’ll be working in a supportive environment where you’ll have the chance to make Bristol a better place and contribute to its future.

To be shortlisted for interview you’ll need to demonstrate how you meet each of the essential criteria in the Person Specification within the Further Information section of your application. On occasion we will receive high numbers of applications, we may then shortlist against the desirable criteria along with the essential criteria, so if you can, please demonstrate how you meet this in your application.

We're a Disability Confident employer which means we value recruiting and retaining disabled people. Any job applicants who consider themselves to be disabled and meet the essential criteria in the Person Specification are guaranteed an interview. We'll make reasonable adjustments throughout the interview process and provide continued workplace support throughout your career. Bristol City Council strives to have a workforce that reflects the communities it serves, we are therefore committed to ensuring diversity in our hiring process. We welcome, develop and promote people from all sections of the community. Appointments will be made on merit.

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