Family Group Decision Making Practitioner

2 weeks ago

Halton, United Kingdom HALTON BOROUGH COUNCIL Full time

Job Introduction
**Our Story**:
Halton is a vibrant local authority with a rich history and heritage, featuring two iconic bridges that connect communities across the River Mersey. Located in Cheshire, Halton boasts excellent transport links between Liverpool and Manchester, as well as close proximity to both Liverpool John Lennon and Manchester Airports.

Our progressive community strategy aims to bring about meaningful, long-term improvements that enhance lives. It’s an exciting time to join us as we develop new policies and transform the way people access services.

**_ We are immensely proud that when asked what’s great about working for Halton, the most popular response from our workforce has been ‘our colleagues’._**

**Our Team**:
You’ll be joining a supportive team that values collaboration, reflection, and shared learning. The team works flexibly across local communities, meeting families where they are to build meaningful relationships and achieve the best outcomes for children. As the role involves travel within the community, a car user allowance is provided to support the delivery of this vital, family-focused service.

**Hours**: 37 per week

**Your Contributions**:
This is an exciting opportunity to work with children, families, and professionals to lead Family Group Conferences and Family Network Meetings. As a Family Group Decision Making Practitioner, you will help families come together to understand concerns and create their own effective plans that prioritise children’s safety and well-being. You will build trust, promote open and solution-focused discussions, and ensure meetings are well-organised, and outcome-driven. Alongside facilitating and recording meetings, you’ll contribute to performance reports and promote a culture of restorative, family-led decision-making.

You should have experience working with children and families, ideally in social care, education, or community settings. Strong communication and facilitation skills, emotional resilience, and a commitment to empowering families are essential. You will value inclusion, collaboration, and safeguarding, understand restorative practices, and be able to manage multiple cases while working flexibly to meet families’ diverse needs.

**Our Offer**:
Aside from working with a great team, our employees have access to a fantastic range of benefits, including:

- A generous annual holiday allowance starting at 34 days per year (including bank holidays), increasing with long service
- Membership of our defined benefit, salary-linked Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) with generous employer contributions
- 3 x Salary Life Cover via Local Government Pension Scheme
- Investment in your personal development
- Free Car Parking at HBC sites
- Flexible working arrangements
- Extensive employee benefits platform including discounted shopping, car leasing, gym memberships, wellbeing hub and Employee Assistance Programme

**Next Steps**:
**Interviews are expected to take place week commencing 8th December 2025.**

**Please refer to the attached Job Profile for further information about the role and our values.

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