We are working closely alongside a Local Authority in Camden to assist with the appointment of a Family Support Manager, on a 2-Weeks contract, highly likely to be extended at clients discretion. Please apply with your CV for immediate consideration.

Rate of Pay: £26.85 - £35.56 per hour

Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage Family Workers (FWs), within a combined HV and FS team, maintaining a focus on high quality practice, positive
  customer experience and better outcomes
• Manage operational delivery of family support casework, ensuring efficient allocation and referral, case management and case recording
  systems
• Provide reflective case supervision and day-today support for FWs, ensuring they are supported to engage and work with children and
  families, including those with challenging circumstances, complex needs, in need of safeguarding and child protection and SEND
• Provide expertise in family support practice, including whole family assessment (CAF), Lead Professional role, Team around the Family
  (TAF) meetings and family action plans
• Manage safeguarding practice and systems for the team of family workers, ensuring effective collaboration with CSSW/MASH and early
  help colleagues

Experience :

• Experience of managing and delivering high quality family support, including for families with highly complex needs and challenging
  circumstances
• Experience of providing flexible and responsive services, working in partnership with families to achieve high levels of engagement and
  meet need
• Experience of reflective supervision to facilitate continuous learning, thinking together and staff professional development
• Experience of operating case referral, management, allocation and recording systems, meeting the agreed timescales and effectively
  prioritising according to need and risk
• Experience of partnership working in a multi-agency team, with a wide range of colleagues, services and organisations to provide
  integrated services for families
• Experience of supporting and implementing change programmes and new ways of working
• Experience of using Microsoft packages (word, outlook, excel), case recording and performance monitoring systems

Please note:

• You should be available to work immediately or at a short notice.
• You should have right to work in U.K

Disclaimer: Brackenberry Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. We are committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. Unless otherwise stated all of our roles are temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent. Important: We will interpret your application as being permission to submit your CV to this role (with the right to represent you) unless you advise us to the contrary. Incase the role requires an enhanced DBS, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.

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