Children's Centre Coordinator

3 weeks ago


Reading, United Kingdom Reading Borough Council Full time

Job description

**Brighter Futures for Children**

**West Central Children Centre -**Under 5’s Service**

**Full-time, permanent post**

**About us**
Brighter Futures for Children is a not-for-profit company, owned by, but independent of, Reading Borough Council. Although we are independent, we are very much part of the Reading Family. Our people enjoy all of benefits as other Council employees including membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and continuous service.

We work closely with partners in the local community and key organisations including Reading Borough Council, policy, public health and voluntary groups. We are responsible for the delivery of children’s social care, early help & prevention, education services (including SEND). This also includes fostering and adoption, the Youth Offending Service and traded services with schools.

Our main aim is to protect and enhance the lives of the children of Reading. We help families find long-term solutions to ensure children lead happy, healthy and successful lives.

**About the role**
We are looking for a children’s centre coordinator to manage the centre and a team of workers, who are already providing a high-quality service to the Under 5s and their families in the West Central area of Reading. This will include:

- Providing leadership to a team of Family Workers and Family Group Workers that ensures effective management of staff.
- Provide robust and regular case supervision and monitoring with a focus on maximising the impact of the Early Help service with children, young people and their families.
- To plan and be responsible for high quality delivery of a Children’s Centre programme of targeted activities that aims to improve outcomes and reduce inequalities for young children and their families.
- Supporting the Early help management team and working on developmental issues.

**About you**
- Provided leadership to family support workers and activity workers
- Experience of providing robust and regular quality case supervision to children and their families accessing out family support.
- Planned and taken responsibility for the delivery of a high quality programme for a Children’s Centre both for targeted and universal activities. You should have knowledge of doing this with an outcome to improve and reduce inequalities for young children and their families.
- Capable and experienced working with range of partners such as, the voluntary sector, Libraries, Health Visitor teams, Midwifery teams and Adult Learning teams
- Supported a senior management team to deliver a developing vision for the service
- A committed manager with proven management experience working within teams that support vulnerable families and children
- Used to working within a multi-agency environment.
- A thorough understanding of safeguarding legislation.

**Our offer**

We offer a supportive environment to help you grow and develop in your career as a manager.

A competitive salary alongside a range of benefits including:

- Local Government Pension Scheme
- 25 days holiday plus public holidays (rising to 32 after service)
- Discounted Childcare Scheme (Onsite Nursery only)
- Cycle to work scheme
- Salary sacrifice car lease scheme
- Season ticket loans
- A range of local discounts

**Closing Date**: 20 March 2023

**Interview Date**: week commencing 27 March 2023

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