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Salary £37,851 – 40,506

This is a Fixed Term/ Secondment Opportunity to cover Maternity Leave.

We are seeking an enthusiastic Family Support Team Manager to ensure the effective operational delivery of universal and targeted family support functions by managing a Children’s Centre multi-agency team (within a defined locality), providing high quality, consistent services that improve outcomes for children under 5 years and their families and parents-to-be.

The Family Support Manager will provide a lead across the locality family support service, offering guidance and expertise on safeguarding. This is a senior level role and the post holder will liaise with colleagues across departments and services at similar management levels. Within this role you will also provide and support good practice, effective and high quality assessments, record-keeping and professional development.

Candidates will need to have worked at this level in a previous role and have the ability to lead and facilitate meetings with external and internal staff . You will need to demonstrate strong and effective communication skills and be able to work independently and as a part of a management team.

Key Requirements

• A graduate qualification relevant to managing family support work, e.g. social work, nursing, early year’s education and/or significant experience of managing multi-agency teams.
• Knowledge and understanding of Information Sharing and Assessment and integrated working procedures to assess children’s needs and refer to other agencies using the Common Assessment Framework (CAF).Knowledge of Parenting Programmes, home visiting services and the impact of their delivery
• Knowledge and understanding of Safeguarding Children procedures and how to implement them.
• Significant experience of managing family support teams working with families and young children. Experience of co-ordinating teams to implement child protection and safeguarding procedures.
• Experience of managing caseloads, acting as LP and undertaking e-caf assessment.Experience of working across multi agency partnerships..
• Postgraduate qualification relevant to family support work e.g. social work, nursing, early years education

Additional Information

Camden is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

This role is subject to an Enhanced CRB

How to apply:

To apply for this job please follow the “Apply for this job” link. As part of the application form you will be asked to explain how you meet the key requirements for this role listed in the advert. When explaining how you meet each of the requirements, please give examples that clearly demonstrate your skills, knowledge and experience. When writing your examples give a brief description of the situation or task but focus on the actions you took and the result of your actions.

Closing date for applications: Sunday 12th February 2012, 23.59

Interviews to be held: Monday 5th March 2012

Please quote reference: LBC 1811

For further information about this role, please refer to the Job Profile.