Contract type: Permanent

Hours: 37 per week

Salary: NJC Grade F SCP 19-24, £29,777 - £33,024 per annum

Closing date: 11th November 2024 at 23:59pm

The Family and Friends Team (Blackpool’s Family Group Conferencing service) is accredited with the Family Rights Group. A Family Group Conference is a family led meeting in which the family and friends network come together to make a plan for a child or young person. The process is a strengths based solution focused approach to support the family to produce a plan to support the child/young person.  

The role of the Family and Friends Coordinator is to work with children, young people and their families to identify wider family and friends who can offer them support. In Blackpool we also use Family Group Conferencing as part of our Life Long Links offer for children and young people who have lost contact with family, carers, friends, neighbours when they became a child in our care.   

Do you have passion and drive for working with families at the point of early help through to court proceedings to take up the offer of attending a family group conference?. You’ll need: 

• Experience of working with a range of people in what can be difficult circumstances.  
• Experience in using the voice of children and young people to plan and influence service delivery. 
• Experience in placing families at the heart of making safe decisions and plans for children. 
• Excellent communication skills and a tenacious approach 
• To be a reflective practitioner who embraces and promotes strengths based work with high ambitions. 

If you’d like to join us and want to make a real difference to people’s lives, apply today! 

For further information and to discuss this role, please contact Sally Healy  Sally.healy@blackpool.gov.uk. 

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We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children/vulnerable adults. This post is subject to satisfactory reference history of at least two years, Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check, medical clearance, evidence of any essential qualifications and proof of Right to Work in the UK in accordance with the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and amendments to the exemptions order, which mean that certain offences are ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed, guidance on the "filtering" of offences can be found at New filtering rules for DBS certificates (from 28 November 2020 onwards) - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

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