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Following significant growth and investment in Gloucestershire Children’s Services, we are creating the new position of Family Help Team Leader. In Gloucestershire we are passionate about ensuring we continue to build resilient, diverse multi-disciplinary teams as we implement the Department for Education's Families First Partnership Programme (FFPP) reforms.

Our new Family Help teams work alongside our Intensive Intervention Teams and Early Intervention and Community Teams - which include Parenting Practitioners, Intensive Family Support Workers, Family Group Decision Making Practitioners, SEND support practitioners and multi-agency partners such as employment advisors, mental health practitioners, IDVAs and our local network of children’s centres and family hubs - to provide responsive, flexible, relational support to families in need of support.

About the role

Family Help Team Leaders will be part of a collaborative multidisciplinary leadership team working alongside a Family Help Team Leader (Social Work) reporting to a Family Help Team Manager. Together, you will lead a team working across Family Help (from targeted early help to court work) helping ensure families experience continuity of support from a trusted lead practitioner rather than unnecessary changes in workers as needs change. 

You will hold expertise and responsibility for ensuring excellent outcomes for children supported through Targeted Early Help and Child in Need. You will be the team’s link person for coordinating Family Help plans delivered by Family Help Leads in the local Family Hubs.

You will supervise a team of Family Help Leads with backgrounds in a range of disciplines and offer the whole team advice, guidance and oversight of evidence-based support and interventions.

As a Family Help Team Leader, you will ensure that your team builds positive and purposeful relationships with children, young people and their families, undertaking Family Help assessments, coordinating multi-agency support and delivering evidence-informed interventions that build resilience, reduce risk and improve outcomes. You will offer excellent reflective supervision aligned to Gloucestershire’s Relational Systemic Practice Framework.

If successful, you will be supported through a comprehensive workforce development programme run by Gloucestershire’s Academy, including Families First training, reflective supervision and opportunities to develop specialist expertise in Family Help practice such as training opportunities in parenting programmes, safer relationships domestic abuse programmes, and systemic practice.

As these are new posts, we are recruiting permanent Family Help Leads to work across the following districts:

• • Tewkesbury
  • Cotswolds
  • Stroud
  • Forest of Dean
  • Cheltenham
  • Gloucester

Reward and support

 For all your hard work, you will receive the following:

• • between £48,226- £51,356 per annum subject to experience
  • flexible and agile working opportunities
  • 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years continuous service
  • option to purchase 10 days of additional leave per year
  • family friendly policies and benefits to help support you and your family
  • supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision
  • Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
  • access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone
  • an in-house Occupational Health service
  • employee discount scheme
  • links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) and the Young Employees Network
  • career development and qualification opportunities
  • access to our Social Work Academy
  • Cycle to Work scheme (eligibility criteria and t&cs apply)
  • Green Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme (eligibility criteria and t&cs apply)

What we offer

• • the opportunity to be part of significant national reform and service development
  • a supportive, experienced and values-led workforce
  • practice underpinned by Systemic Practice and a commitment to learning and development
  • meaningful work that helps prevent escalation to higher-level services
  • flexible working arrangements where service needs allow

You will be joining an authority that is committed to delivering the best possible outcomes for children and families, recognising the importance of reflective practice, collaboration, and professional curiosity.

About you
 

We are looking for motivated and compassionate managers who will:

• • lead and motivate multidisciplinary teams to deliver high-quality, child-centred services
  • provide strong professional supervision and support, helping staff to develop, perform and achieve their potential
  • build effective partnerships across health, education, social care and community organisations to achieve the best outcomes for families
  • make confident, evidence-based decisions, balancing risk, need and available resources
  • drive continuous improvement and positive change, creating a culture of learning, reflection and professional development
  • champion high standards of practice, quality assurance and service excellence
  • communicate and influence effectively, adapting their style to engage families, colleagues, partners and senior stakeholders
  • demonstrate emotional intelligence and resilience, remaining calm and effective in challenging and fast-paced environments
  • be highly organised and adaptable, able to manage competing priorities and respond to changing demands
  • promote equality, diversity and inclusion, ensuring services are fair, accessible and responsive to the needs of all children and families
  • build positive relationships and professional networks, working collaboratively whilst constructively challenging where necessary
  • hold a full driving licence and have access to a car

How to apply

For an informal chat about this role, please contact cswrecruitment@gloucestershire.gov.uk and they will put you in touch with the suitable hiring manager.

Company: Gloucestershire County Council

Salary: £48,226 - £51,356

Location: Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire

Sector: Health and Social Care

Sector: Health

Sector: Social Care

Job Role: Team Leader