Family Time Manager

Job Description
Mae'r ddogfen hon ar gael yn Gymraeg / This document is also available in Welsh.
Aman Children & Family Centre, Godreaman, Aberdare
We are looking to recruit a Family Time Manager into our busy Family Time Service.

The successful applicant will be responsible for the operation of the service in our Family Time Centre based in the Cynon Valley. This is an exciting opportunity to join us at a point where we have reconfigured and reviewed the service.

You will supervise a team of family time workers, managing absence and performance, facilitating family time sessions between looked after children and their families, liaising with social work teams, risk assessing individual sessions, covering sessions when necessary or complex, covering the Rhondda Family Time Centre to support colleague absence, managing petty cash, checking and authorising recordings and providing accurate records to professionals.

Experience of working with children and families is essential and a basic knowledge of child development is necessary to provide appropriate support and advice.

You will also need to have a basic knowledge of the legal framework applicable to children who are looked after. Experience of working within a supervised family time environment is desirable.

There is an expectation that you will hold a QCF level 3 in Children and Young People or gain this qualification within two years of employment and support is provided to achieve this.

This post is available within our Cynon Valley Family Time Centre, working as part of an established supportive team.

The service operates Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm and the successful applicant will be expected to manage the service during these hours.

For further information please contact Matthew Free via email to arrange a call.

Protecting children and vulnerable adults is a core responsibility of all staff appointed to the Council.

In addition to this safeguarding responsibility, the successful applicant for this role will also be subject to an enhanced disclosure and barring service check.
The Council values diversity in its workforce. We are committed to ensuring that no unlawful discrimination occurs in the recruitment and selection process on the grounds of age, sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, transgender, including those with non-binary identities, religion or belief or pregnancy and maternity. We offer a number of staff networks for employees including the Allies Network, a Disability and Carers Network and Perthyn our LGBTQ+ Network.

An application submitted for this post in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application made in English.

As part of the Council's longer term objectives in relation to the Welsh language and its Workforce Planning Strategy, it is committed to a guaranteed interview scheme for Welsh-speakers of Level 3 and above. If you meet the essential criteria as identified in the person specification for the job and are a Welsh-speaker of Level 3 and above, you will be invited to interview if you choose to participate in the scheme.
In view of the large number of Application Forms which are currently being submitted individual applications are not acknowledged. Consequently if you do not hear from us within four weeks of the closing date, please assume that your application is unsuccessful on this occasion. In which case you are thanked for the interest you have shown in applying for a position within the Council.

In support of the Council's voluntary pledge to support the Armed Forces, the recruiter must always be prepared to ensure that applicants who have identified themselves as members of the Armed Forces including Service Leavers, Veterans or Reservists and who meet the essential criteria of the person specification, are offered an interview.