Family Coordinator

**The job itself**:
The East Riding of Yorkshire Council, Children’s Services have been rated GOOD by Ofsted following our recent ILACS inspection. Since the last inspection in 2019, the leadership team has made significant and sustained changes in all of the practice and leadership areas identified for improvement. Through extensive engagement with external partners and scrutineers, the improvements in the service mean that children and young people in East Riding receive a timely and effective response and intervention when they need it. Senior leaders and councillors are clear about what their strengths are and what still needs to be improved in service delivery, and their self-evaluation is accurate. They have ambitious plans and have secured significant investment to develop their services further as part of their continuous improvement journey. Senior leaders lead by example, and this has supported practitioners to embed the relational model of practice with the families they work with

A great and exciting opportunity has arisen within the Participation, Innovation, and Improvement portfolio for an enthusiastic practitioner to join a newly created specific Family Time service delivering a revised offer to children and young people and their networks. These** six posts** (combination of full time or part time equivalents) forms part of our continued improvement activity in driving strength based, relational and collaborative practice in our work with children, young people and their networks.

Family time, those precious moments we all take for granted. But some of our children and young people who are cared for away from their home may not always have the opportunity to connect with their family or network without the support of services, making this time even more important. This opportunity is to be part of our new Family Time service, you will be fundamental in creating the right space for our children and young people to meet, play, talk, laugh and make memories with their family and network. You will also have the privilege to walk alongside our children, young people and families in developing and strengthening their relationships and working towards reunification where it is right for our children and young people.

These roles offer the opportunity for both personal and professional growth and development. You will have the opportunity to be part of developing and growing our practice system to ensure that we achieve the best outcomes for children, young people and their families. East Riding of Yorkshire Council is an innovative Local Authority which constantly strives to improve the standard of services provided to children, young people and families in our area. Understanding our children, young people and families’ lived experiences gives us the framework to ensure our services continue to improve on our journey to excellence.

We are looking for a practitioner with a passion about strength-based approaches and forming a relational based approach to securing good outcomes to children, young people and their networks. We are looking to develop and build upon your experience of working with children and young people in an exciting role that is central to the development of a culture of driving up practice and improving the lived experience for those children and young people we work with. This is a specialist role in a large and extremely ambitious service, working across multiple portfolios, multiple complexities and with multiple users and partners.

This post is part of a wider commitment by the Children, Families and Schools Directorate to support the practice system to deliver impact and focused outcomes for our children, young people and their networks via building a sustainable foundation of support to our holistic workforce. This is a great opportunity to be part of an aspirational and forward-thinking Portfolio with a priority of supporting those children, young people and their networks.

The Office Base for this role will be County Hall, Beverley although will work across the East Riding of Yorkshire footprint.

**Our model**

**‘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 will be set within a much wider, values based, model of practice that clearly connects Signs of Safety much more clearly with the East Riding value base, and our overall approach to making and sustaining relationships with children, families, and communities.

Without a well embedded model, there is nothing to centre our practice on to ensure that, while the work may be different, all our teams are grounded in the same values, beliefs, theo