Contact Supervisor

**Full Time 37 hours per week**

The Supervised Contact Service are seeking a flexible & enthusiastic individual who has a desire for working with children and their families. The right individuals will be passionate about safeguarding children and will be child-focused in their practice to promote positive relationships between children and their families. The Service continues to work towards developing a restorative and relational practice framework as an underpinning ethos to ensure that we are working with and for our children and families.

The Supervised Contact Service facilitates court ordered contact sessions between children and their families across Devon. Supervised contact supports the physical safety and emotional wellbeing of a child when it is determined this may be at risk whilst they have contact with their family member.

As a Contact Supervisor, you would be expected to work closely and professionally with your colleagues, Social Workers, Foster Carers and other Court or Social Work professionals to deliver positive and meaningful contact sessions for children and their families, during this challenging period of their lives.

You will be responsible for the recording of information around sessions and will have keyworker responsibilities for individual families.

The Supervised Contact Service is made up of 4 service areas across Devon: North Devon, East & Mid Devon, Exeter and South Devon. You will be based in one of these areas, but the service works Countywide, therefore you may be allocated work in another area across Devon, with agreed transport time and travel expenses covered.

**Devon County Council**
We offer an environment that is supportive and rewarding, working as part of a team who are passionate about the work they do to improve the lives of young people and their families in Devon. As well as this, we have some fantastic employee benefits available:

- We promote a healthy work-life balance and offer flexible working arrangements wherever possible, including working from home.
- Generous annual leave allowance.
- Employee Assistance for the times you may need some support and a variety of employee wellbeing services.
- Auto enrolment onto our Pension Scheme and optional pension enhancement through our Additional Voluntary Contribution scheme.
- A Flexible Benefits Scheme via salary sacrifice to obtain benefits such as, ‘cycle for work’ and health screenings.

**DBS information**
This post requires a criminal background check via the Disclosure procedure.

If you think that you have these qualities and are interested in joining our team, we would love to hear from you. For an informal chat please contact **Glenn Lobb**, on 07814 779948.
- We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
- The Council offers flexible working arrangements in terms of when and where people work e.g. hybrid working, part-time, condensed hours etc.
- This role requires the ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence and fluency in English.
- Personal data we collect from you will be processed in accordance with the Applicant privacy notice.
- Happy to Talk Flexible Working.
- For more information about Working for Devon please visit our Working for Devon page.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £22,369.00-£24,496.00 per year

Work Location: One location