Family Group Decision Making Assistant

Job description

Contract Terms

Starting salary: PO1 (£40,182 – £ 42,060)
Work location: Hybrid, based at Maya Angelou Family Hub
Working hours: Fulltime, 36 hours   
Contract type: FTC – 18 Months 
Closing date: Sunday, 26th April 2026
Expected interview date: w/c 4th May 2026

About Haringey

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.

Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

About the Role

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key part in expanding Family Group Decision Making (FGDM) across Haringey as part of the borough’s new social work reforms. As a Family Group Decision Making Assistant, you will help practitioners develop the confidence and skills to deliver high quality FGDM processes, that support families to make sustainable plans for children and young people.

You’ll deliver training, offer professional consultation, promote best practice, and occasionally facilitate FGDM meetings yourself. A key element of the role is working directly with families, extended networks, and community connections to identify strengths, explore solutions, and ensure the child’s voice is central. You’ll also contribute to developing guidance, resources, and tools that help embed and sustain strength based family decision-making across the service.

This role is ideal for someone passionate about empowering families, driving systemic change, and championing approaches that make a genuine, lasting difference.

About the Team

You’ll join Haringey’s Safeguarding and Social Care Service, working closely with the Family Group Conference Coordinators and a wide network of social care professionals. The team is committed to building and strengthening family and community networks so that children and young people can thrive in safe, supportive environments.

The FGDM team plays a vital role in supporting practitioners across Children’s Services — providing training, consultancy, and guidance that enable consistently high standards of practice. Collaboration is central to how the team works: you’ll engage with social workers, early help partners, health and education professionals, and community groups to champion a culture where families are active partners in decision-making.

About You

You’ll be a confident communicator with the ability to build positive relationships with professionals, families, and young people from diverse backgrounds. You bring experience of working directly with children and families, and ideally you have delivered or been involved in family led meetings, or you’re willing to undertake training to become accredited in Family Group Conference practice.

Your strengths include delivering training, presenting to varied audiences, and writing clear reports and resources. You’re organised, able to work independently, and comfortable managing work to deadlines and project milestones. You also have a solid understanding of child welfare legislation, policy, and practice.

Above all, you are committed to empowering families, promoting participation, and helping practitioners embed strengths based approaches so that children and young people receive the best possible support.

Working for Haringey

At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community.  

Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement of 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.

Please note: we reserve the right to end this advert before the noted deadline if we receive sufficient applications. If you wish to apply for this role, please ensure that you do so as soon as possible.  

Additionally, we are aware that automated emails may be diverted through to junk email folders.  Please continue to check these through the application process.  If you have any questions about the status of your application, please contact ResourcingHub@haringey.gov.uk