Job Introduction
Bradford Children and Families Trust was established in April 2023 to enhance the quality and delivery of Children’s Services across our district. Our purpose is clear, to ensure that our promise to improve the lives of children and young people in Bradford becomes a reality. It’s a tough ask. It requires dedication, determination, and resilience – but under a new Chief Executive, Senior Leadership team and an unswerving drive to deliver the best outcomes, we are confident that we’ll achieve our ambition – and you, yours.
So, if you’re up for the Challenge we’d love to hear from you!
About The Role
To oversee the practice development, quality assurance and delivery of prevention and early help services, in particularly Family Support, by ensuring that high quality and effective whole family support is provided. The families will often present with complex and multiple needs. This may also involve targeted support to children and families subject to child in need, child protection plans and court processes.
Manage, support, develop and challenge practitioners in the delivery of support which demonstrates improved outcomes for children and young people. Reflective and group supervision included.
To work in partnership with other professionals involved in the team around the Family to ensure provision reaches those most in need of support and shows impact, particularly in response to parenting support. Ensure partners are contributing to the SMART plans for children and families and appropriately challenge and escalate where not.
Key Responsibilities
- To manage a team of Family Support Workers who are undertaking assessments, delivering direct work with parents/carers and children and leading Team around the Family meetings.
- To be responsible for ensuring that statutory, best practice and reporting requirements are met, with reference to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults.
- Manage and support staff to ensure high quality of assessment of need of families and support plans are undertaken and reviewed in relation to families with multiple and complex needs.
- Evidencing improved outcomes for children and families through the intervention delivered.
- Working with all agencies including internal services to ensure families are received the right support at the right time.
- Managing the timely triage and allocation of families to staff ensuring all approaches used are evidenced based.
- Effectively allocate and manage staff resources using case management, review and allocation systems, to ensure that all cases have smart, outcome focused support plans that are regularly reviewed to avoid any drift.
About You
Successful candidates will need an NVQ 4 (prior to 2011) or Diploma 5 in Health & Social Care, (Children & Young People) or a Level 5 Management qualification or an equivalent service-related degree qualification.
Experience
- The applicant is required to provide evidence of having previously spoken fluently to members of the public to meet the advanced threshold level outlined under Special Knowledge above.
- Must have recent experience of working with vulnerable children, young people and families in need to support sustained improvements. This experience must have been in relation to working in a supervisory work role (not just case management) of students, volunteers or paid staff including co-ordination and allocation of work tasks to others.
- Must have recent experience in chairing meetings with professionals and family members on a regular basis.
List of Benefits:
- Generous Employer Contributions in a Local Government Pension Scheme
- Competitive salary and pay progression structure.
- Real living wage as the minimum rate of pay
- Supportive carer and parental policies
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
- Access to Occupational Health and confidential counselling services
- Supportive staff networks
- Access to Blue Light Card Discounts
- Professional development/support
- Career Progression
- Enhanced annual leave entitlement
- Social Worker Registration Fees paid
- Flexible Working/Hybrid options subject to service need
Next Steps
For any queries or an informal discussion about the role & trust please contact Vicci Gabriel (Head of Service) at victoria.gabriel@bradfordcft.org.uk
Bradford Children and Families Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all employees to share this commitment.
If shortlisted, you will be required to disclose relevant information regarding criminal history prior to interview.
A Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check including a check against the Children’s barred list, will be carried out on preferred candidates.
