Team Manager, Family Support and Complex Families

Working on behalf of a Local authority, Aatom Recruitment has a new opportunity for a Team Manager, Family Support and Complex Families on a 3 months contract initially with a possibility of further extension.

The post holder will:

• Manage the effective operational delivery of universal and targeted services for families with children 0-19 by managing a team of family workers and coordinators.
• Manage Early Help referrals across the service and ensure appropriate interventions and plans are put into place for families.
• Will ensure that all staff within the team have access to regular and appropriate supervision as well as training to continue the development of the necessary skills to meet the needs of the families.
• The team manager will work with partners internal and external to analyse data to identify need, create evaluations, plan and deliver team meetings, ensure access to services is inclusive of all needs, work to implement RFP across all areas of our work, provide coaching, supervision and training to ensure interventions meet the needs of the family.
• Consult on, and directly work with, more complex families referred by statutory and other agencies, ensuring best practice in supporting resilience factors and employing the whole family strengths-based model and maintaining case management standards.
• Ensure delivery of evidence-based assessments and interventions to families on a group and individual basis with a focus on vulnerable priority groups, ensuring the needs of local communities are met and best practice developed.
• Ensure quality and standards in provision delivered by Family Support and complex families including maintaining an evaluation framework and tracking and reviewing outcomes for children, families and communities.
• To deputise for the Service Manager’s as required.

Technical Knowledge and Experience:

• The post holder will have a professional qualification as a youth worker, community worker, social worker or equivalent skills.

• Comprehensive experience of leading and managing teams, preferably in a multi-agency environment, and implementing significant change programmes.

• Experience of working with complex families, undertaking assessments, developing SMART plans, supporting families to change behaviour, and monitoring progress

• Knowledge of effective case recording and of auditing case files to ensure high quality record keeping

• Thorough understanding of information sharing requirements both within and outside the Family Support and Complex Families service.

• Thorough knowledge and understanding of safeguarding policy, legislation and best practice guidance.

• Knowledge of services provided by local authorities to support children, young people and their families.

If this sounds good to you, please apply for further information or contact us directly.