Family Coordinator

**The job itself**:
If you’re looking for a role where you can support children and families whilst being part of a strong team, our Family Coordinator role might be the next step in your career.

No two days are the same for our Family Coordinators as they play an integral part in the community by providing support to our children, young people and families.

As a Family Coordinator you will provide tailored support, information and advice on a one-to-one basis, working individually with the child and the whole family through visits and meetings, working with them in their home environment, in school or taking them out into the community to ensure that they can thrive as a family safely without the need of services.

We have several great and exciting opportunities available, both permanent and temporary, for Family Coodinators within the Early Help and Prevention Teams.

East Riding of Yorkshire Council is an innovative Local Authority which constantly strives to improve the standard of services provided to children, families and young people in our area. Our vision is to ensure that vulnerable children and young people receive excellent services to keep them safe and to make sure they reach their full potential. We are responding to the challenges we face with energy and innovation.

There are various office bases available for these roles, together with permanent or temporary posts. You will be asked your preference at interview; we want to be able to match you to a role that works best for our children and families but also for you. East Riding has excellent transport links and our various locations make it easy to access working spaces from various locations. East Riding office spaces are only 3 - 6 miles from Hull, 13 miles from North Lincolnshire, 20 miles from North East Lincolnshire, 22 miles from Doncaster, 17 miles from Scarborough and 14 miles from York, with strong access routes via the M62 and A1079.

We are looking for energetic and creative workers who can demonstrate tenacity and enthusiasm in making a positive difference to the lives of children and young people. You will be passionate about ensuring our most vulnerable children are supported to achieve their full potential.

In East Riding we really value positive relationships, therefore, it is essential that the post holder is able to work relationally with others with a flexible and adaptable approach - always demonstrating their commitment to working to the highest possible standards whilst remaining at all times child centred. You will be able to build positive working relationships with children and young people, professionals and carers as well as respectfully challenge when appropriate. You will be able to work on your own initiative but also perform as part of a wider team. You will be able and committed to writing child’s records, plans and reports to a high standard each evidencing the voice of children, young people and families throughout.

**Why work for East Riding?**

We really value our workers and it is our fundamental belief that our staff are the most important asset in fulfilling our responsibility to provide a quality service to children, young people and their families. We therefore want to invest in you and your development. We care about your career and will help you to identify your own goals and work with you to support you to achieve that within East Riding.

Our practitioners describe East Riding as ‘a family’; we really value our relationships with each other, with the families we support, and our partner agencies. We offer flexible working approaches because we want you to be able to enjoy your own family time and we know that this is important to our staff. We listen to what our practitioners are telling us and work hard to respond and make a difference - in East Riding we are so committed to this that we have Principal Practice Lead for our practitioners, who champion the frontline voice across the service.

**Our model of practice**

Stronger Together: ‘You can, I can, We can’

We have created a bespoke practice model that reflects and connects our vision, our value base and our behaviour as one East Riding of Yorkshire approach to working with children, young people and their families, which is nurtured and grown from within East Riding of Yorkshire CYPSSS and owned by our workforce.

We remain committed to Signs of Safety as a practice framework, but this is set within a much wider, values based, model of practice that clearly connects Signs of Safety with the East Riding value base, and our overall approach to making and sustaining relationships with children, families and communities. Our Stronger Together approach is strengths based, solution-focussed, and relational recognising that the very best work with families takes place within the context of excellent, collaborative relationships.

A well embedded model ensures we all have something to centre our practice on so that, while the wo