Family Group Conference Co-ordinator

3 months ago

Peterborough, United Kingdom Teddar Limited Full time

**Enhanced DBS required for this role.**

**Main purpose of the job**
- The core purpose of this post is to promote collaborative decision-making and active participation with families to achieve better outcomes for the children and to maintain positive family lives.

**Role specific duties and accountabilities**:

- Take responsibility for all referrals for a Family Group Conference from the various teams within timescales.
- To visit family members across Peterborough to outline the Family Group Conference process and negotiate the attendance of a family wide network (which may include significant others, such as friends or community networks).
- Responsible for organising venues in the community across Peterborough inviting all family members, significant others, and the relevant professional to attend the Family Group Conference.
- Prepare relevant professionals for the meeting and assist them in producing written information for the family which is clear and concise and provides information about concerns and potential resources.
- Ensure the work of Family Group Conference, is recorded on the agreed database, in line with the departmental policies and procedures.
- Facilitate the Family Group Conference and ensure that the family has clear and usable information explained by professionals to inform their deliberations.
- Ensure confidentiality is maintained at all times within the agreed boundaries with the exception of applicable risk and safeguarding policies.
- Promote and develop participative and empowering practices and services for children and families and work in partnership with families, referrers and service providers e.g. school staff, health visitors, housing, mental health workers etc. To bring together the right service providers to inform the Family Group Conference process in order to support families in making plans that reflect the wider needs of the child or young person.
- Provide training for referrers, other professionals and community groups about the Family Group conference model.
- Ensure feedback from the conference is gathered from family members and professionals and children making sure that the voice of the child is heard listened to and reported on using a variety of information gathering tools
- Take part in regular supervision, practice development groups and training sessions to ensure good quality practice.
- Ensure that administration tasks of Family Group Conferences including the initial conference and follow up review are completed.
- Undertake all duties and interaction with employees, partners and customers fairly, without unlawful discrimination and with due regard to the councils Diversity and Equality in Employment and Health and Safety policies.
- To be available and flexible to work outside office hours and unsocial hours.
- Undertake any other duties commensurate with the general level of responsibility of the post.

**Knowledge**

**Essential**
- Basic understanding on the philosophy and principles of Family Group Conferencing and understand how these fit with FGC National Standards.
- Knowledge of childcare legislation and how this might impact on Family Group Conference.

**Skills and Abilities**

**Essential**
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including an ability to provide written reports with service users and professionals.
- Ability and skills to work within a partnership network and in working with other agencies to develop interventions and services for children, young people and their families.
- Ability to demonstrate an understanding of, and commitment to, equal opportunities and its importance in employment and service delivery.
- Ability to work independently and ability to prioritize and organize your own workload.
- A high level of computer literacy.
- Ability to achieve targets and work to deadlines.
- Ability to work with families from different lifestyles and cultures and make this integral to the FGC process.
- Ability to remain a neutral role.
- Ability to facilitate groups.
- Ability to recognize and take action to resolve conflict in groups.
- Ability to include all group members so that they can effectively participate in decision making by the group.

**Experience**
- To have extensive and varied experience of working with families and children/young people at times of distress and conflict.
- To have experience of chairing meetings involving family, children and/or professionals.
- To have experience in Health, Education or Social Care

**Personal Circumstances**
- Ability to travel between locations

**Qualification**:

- Educated to Level 3 and have practical experience of working in a related field.
- Level 2 Maths & English
- Enhanced DBS

**Job Type**: Temporary contract
Contract length: 10 weeks

Pay: £19.65 per hour

Expected hours: 37 per week

**Benefits**:

- Company pension

Application question(s):

- Do you have experience of chairing meetings involving family, children and/or professionals

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