Family Group Conference Co-ordinator

Are you ready to champion family led planning across a transforming children's services? Are you a calm, skilled facilitator who brings families together when it matters most? Put families at the heart of decisions with #TeamNEL. As part of our ongoing commitment to empowering families to be involved in the decisions that affect their lives, we are developing our Family Group Decision Making practice. An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Family Group Conference Coordinator within North East Lincolnshire Council's Children's Services.

Your role will include facilitating Family Network Meetings and Family Group Conferences alongside supporting the implementation of Family Group Decision Making training and practice development across services. You will champion the principles of Family Group Decision Making across our partnerships advocating for family led decision making approaches.

We are looking for someone who is passionate about empowering children and families to create meaningful and lasting change. You will have experience of working with children and families, multi-agency working and have knowledge of legislation and guidance for working with children and families. You will have either a relevant level 4 qualification or equivalent knowledge, skills and experience.

Your knowledge and skills will include building and developing relationships to enable a positive difference to children and families. You must have a clear understanding of the principles of Family Group Decision Making whilst we will invest in your ongoing learning and development in family led planning and decision making approaches.

As part of our team, you will be supported through relational leadership with high aspirations for children and families and who are committed to empowering them to thrive. We offer you the opportunity to work in a supportive and friendly team, contributing to family led practice to support children and help families to stay together safely. We offer you diverse training and professional development opportunities, a highly rewarding environment where you can really make a difference to the lives of children, their families and family networks as well as a range of workplace benefits.

Regular individual and reflective child focussed, professional and personal supervision. A relational approach in all aspects of practice. Accessible and proactive management that creates the conditions for the workforce to flourish and make a real difference to people's lives. A highly supportive team and working environment.

In order to fully comply with Safer Recruitment guidelines, if you are successful with your application, you must meet the below criteria and be able to provide: At least one reference must be from your current or most recent employment. You must provide a professional/company email address (we cannot accept personal email addresses). References must cover the last 3 years, any reasons for gaps should be detailed in your enhanced reference form. Your references will only be requested if you are offered and have accepted a position. Please note: This role requires a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at a level appropriate to the post. It is a contractual and essential requirement that the successful candidate is registered with the DBS Update Service.

If you need any help applying for this position, please contact Wendy Trask on 07702 338542 (text or call). Wendy can support with digital access as well as offering advice and guidance about completing the different sections of the application form.