Family Group Decision Making Assistant in City of Westminster

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key part in expanding Family Group Decision Making (FGDM) across Haringey as part of the borough's new social work reforms. As a Family Group Decision Making Assistant, you will help practitioners develop the confidence and skills to deliver high quality FGDM processes that support families to make sustainable plans for children and young people.

You’ll deliver training, offer professional consultation, promote best practice, and occasionally facilitate FGDM meetings yourself. A key element of the role is working directly with families, extended networks, and community connections to identify strengths, explore solutions, and ensure the child’s voice is central. You’ll also contribute to developing guidance, resources, and tools that help embed and sustain strength-based family decision-making across the service.

This role is ideal for someone passionate about empowering families, driving systemic change, and championing approaches that make a genuine, lasting difference.

About the Team: You’ll join Haringey’s Safeguarding and Social Care Service, working closely with the Family Group Conference Coordinators and a wide network of social care professionals. The team is committed to building and strengthening family and community networks so that children and young people can thrive in safe, supportive environments.

The FGDM team plays a vital role in supporting practitioners across Children’s Services – providing training, consultancy, and guidance that enable consistently high standards of practice. Collaboration is central to how the team works: you’ll engage with social workers, early help partners, health and education professionals, and community groups to champion a culture where families are active partners in decision-making.

You’ll be a confident communicator with the ability to build positive relationships with professionals, families, and young people from diverse backgrounds. You bring experience of working directly with children and families, and ideally you have delivered or been involved in family-led meetings, or you’re willing to undertake training to become accredited in Family Group Conference practice.

Your strengths include:

• Delivering training
• Presenting to varied audiences
• Writing clear reports and resources
• Organised and able to work independently
• Comfortable managing work to deadlines and project milestones
• Solid understanding of child welfare legislation, policy, and practice

Above all, you are committed to empowering families, promoting participation, and helping practitioners embed strengths-based approaches so that children and young people receive the best possible support.

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.

Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement of 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.