(Fixed Term) Family Time Contact Supervisor - Specialist Intervention Service
London Borough of Barking and Dagenham
About this job
Role: Family Contact Worker Department: Specialist Intervention Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract (Until March 2027) Hours per Week: 35 Compensation: Scale 6
We are looking for a committed and passionate Family Contact Worker in a 1 Year Fixed Term Contract vacancy to supervise family contact time for children of various ages who are in Local Authority Care, helping families enjoy their time together. This role also offers the opportunity to gain experience in areas such as creating positive environments, leading mediation, delivering training sessions and producing reports. Barking & Dagenham Children’s Care and Support Services are on a journey of transformation and improvement. In the Specialist Intervention Service, we have created a hub of preventative intervention offers to assist in reducing the number of children who enter the care system as well as improving their life chances and safety. We are working with colleagues across Care and Support to improve the outcomes for children and young people. Family contact is to promote and sustain the child’s relationship with their family and to provide high quality, positive time for them to connect and interact. It is also to give the social workers a better understanding of how parents and children interact as par
Special requirements for this post
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and a comprehensive screening process will be undertaken on successful applicants including an Enhanced Children’s Department of Barring Services check
About you
As a Family Contact Worker, you need to have experience of working with children who are on child protection plans or local authority care. Be a skilled, experienced, motivated, and caring practitioner who can engage children, young people and family members & use a variety of techniques to assist them in changing behaviour and develop creative solutions. You need to have excellent verbal and written communication skills alongside analytical ability and confident decision making, whilst demonstrating the ability to incorporate the Strengthening Families Model which builds on families’ strengths with a focus on protective factors. We want people that embody our organisational values and care about our communities and borough. If you have the knowledge, skills and experience required for this role and share our values, we would like to hear from you
About us
We are putting the heart back into social work, supported by our relational practice model, we ensure the child’s lived experience takes centre stage. Ours is a culture of high expectations, high challenge, and high support. This is an exciting time to join the London Borough of Barking & Dagenham. We have been on a journey over the last few years, that has seen us transform the council and the way we deliver our services. At the heart of this transformation is our community. We need committed individuals to support us in the delivery of these aims and to become part of our team to make a difference to our children and families.
In return we offer a competitive pay package, generous pension, annual leave up to 30 days, investment in your learning and development as well as a commitment to your wellbeing.
If you have any support requirements; require assistance with your application or would like a confidential discussion about this post, please notify us at the earliest opportunity via socialcarerecruitment@lbbd.gov.uk so that appropriate reasonable adjustments can be made to our application process.