Are you passionate about ensuring children and families have safe, positive and meaningful time together? We are looking for two Family Time Leaders to oversee the delivery of high-quality Family Time sessions across our Family Safeguarding and Children's Disability Service. In this role, you will manage a team of Support Workers, oversee the Family Time rota, support staff with challenging situations, and work collaboratively with social care professionals to ensure every child's welfare is prioritised. These are new roles being added to our service, so this is an opportunity to make a genuine difference for children, young people and families – supporting them through some of the most important moments in their lives.
Responsibilities
* Managing and supervising Support Workers delivering Family Time sessions.
* Providing onsite support when needed during Family Time and managing challenging or emotionally demanding situations.
* Ensuring Family Time is delivered consistently and, in a trauma‑informed way.
* Overseeing and contributing to the Family Time rota and ensuring it adapts to demand, priorities and safeguarding needs.
* Collaborating with Family Safeguarding Managers in the management of Family Time Agreement Meetings, Reviews and Reintroduction Meetings.
* Working collaboratively with Social Workers, Business Support staff and other key teams.
* Ensuring paperwork, safeguarding information and training are kept up to date.
This role requires the ability to drive and have access to a car, alongside the willingness to work flexibly during times when Support Workers are supervising their Family Time Sessions. An enhanced with barred list DBS check is required for this post. For information on our approach to the recruitment of ex‑offenders, please see our policy statement.
About You
To apply for this post, you must be able to evidence in your application how you meet the following criteria:
* Have a relevant qualification in social care, child development, or related field (e.g. NVQ Level 3 or equivalent) and have experience working with children, young people and families.
* Have experience of managing challenging situations and supporting staff in emotionally demanding environments. Whilst having experience of supervising staff in a social care or family support setting would also be desirable, it isn't essential.
* Know how to apply family‑time‑settings safeguarding procedures, relevant legislation and trauma‑informed practice.
* Be able to lead, motivate and support a team effectively, using excellent communication and interpersonal skills, both written and verbal.
* Be able to manage conflict and resolve issues sensitively, and professionally to be able to meet the needs of your own team but equally those you work collaboratively with.
* Have strong organisational and IT skills, for record keeping, communication, rostering and analysing data.
* Understand how to ensure equality, diversity and inclusion principles are implemented within service delivery.
In addition, we expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the interview process. Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability. We are a Disability Confident Employer.
If you share our passion to make a difference for the people of Leicestershire, we'd love to hear from you. Click the apply button to submit your application, ensuring that you upload a supporting statement that explains how you meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above. Without this information, we won't be able to assess your suitability for the role, and your application will be rejected. For tips on how to write your statement, see the How to Apply section on our career site.
At Leicestershire County Council, we're committed to making a real difference in people's lives. Our aim is to work with communities and partners to deliver public services that make Leicestershire the best possible place to live and work for everyone. Our employees play a key role in supporting this goal and helping us deliver the vital services we provide to the people of Leicestershire. Whether you're starting your career or looking for your next challenge, you'll find a place with us where your ideas are valued, and your work has purpose. For further information on what it's like to work for us and the benefits we offer, please refer to the following
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