Overview
As the Family Help Service Lead, you'll be responsible for the continued shaping and delivering of targeted family help across Stockport. You'll oversee the offer of early, effective support for children and families, ensuring services are timely, joined-up and responsive. Working alongside other leaders you will be integral to implementing the Family First Partnership Programme.
Responsibilities
* Lead a skilled team, including social workers, family help coordinators and family help intervention workers and work closely with partners across education, health and social care to ensure children and their families get the right help at the right time.
* Focus on prevention, collaboration and positive outcomes; champion a culture of continuous improvement and keep the voice of children and families at the heart of everything you do.
* Provide confident leadership, supervision and challenge, championing the value of early help and accessible support in neighbourhoods.
* Lead through change to bring stability, motivation, and a clear direction to teams during times of transformation.
Requirements / Qualifications
* As a passionate, qualified social worker and experienced leader, you will bring skills and insight to guide, support and inspire a workforce delivering targeted early help at the right time.
* You will have a clear understanding of thresholds, the importance of intervention at the earliest opportunity, safeguarding and when escalation required when a child may be at risk of harm.
* Reflective and relational in your approach, you will build strong partnerships across agencies and communities.
Our approach / About Stockport Council
At Stockport Council we are one ambitious team on a mission to create opportunities for everyone who lives, works and spends time in the borough. We re keen to recruit people with the right values and behaviours that can help us ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do.
Commitment to wellbeing and inclusion
We are proud to be recognised under the Good Employment Charter as an organisation committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues. As members of the charter, we have been recognised as a great place to work for all colleagues and pledge to pay the real living wage, engage staff in key decisions and endorse fair and flexible working conditions. Stockport Council is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive workforce culture - a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and communities to join our workforce.
Work arrangements
We want our employees to have a good work life balance and in many job roles we can offer a range of flexible/hybrid working arrangements. We also have inclusive employment policies and staff engagement forums to support our diverse workforce. We will listen to, learn from, and develop our workforce.
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