Family Group Conference Manager, Children's Services

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Family Group Conference Team Manager

We are looking for an inspiring and compassionate leader to champion Family Led Decision Making and drive the continued development of our Family Group Conference (FGC) approach. This is a fantastic opportunity to lead a dedicated FGC team and play a key role in ensuring children, young people and their families are empowered to make decisions that truly support their safety, wellbeing and long‑term outcomes.

As our FGC Team Manager, you will lead and manage our skilled Family Group Conference Coordinators, ensuring the effective and efficient delivery of a high‑quality service. You will provide day‑to‑day professional supervision, guidance and performance management, supporting coordinators to navigate the varied and evolving needs of the service.

Working closely with partners across Children’s Services, you’ll strengthen the integration of FGC within prevention, early intervention, family help and child protection pathways. You’ll build and nurture collaborative relationships with education, health, police, housing and specialist agencies, ensuring families receive cohesive, timely and meaningful support.

Key responsibilities

• Leading and developing the FGC team to deliver a high‑quality, outcome‑focused service.
• Embedding family-led decision making across Children’s Services and multi‑agency partners.
• Overseeing and quality assuring practice to ensure children and families are fully involved in decisions that affect them.
• Providing expert advice and consultancy on the FGC process and supporting appropriate referrals.
• Designing and delivering training and presentations on Family Led Decision Making.
• Staying informed on legislation, guidance and regional developments relating to FGC and family decision making.
• Reporting to senior leaders on service performance, outcomes and both financial and non-financial impact.

Who we're looking for

You will be a motivated, relationship‑focused leader with a passion for strengths‑based practice and family empowerment. You’ll bring professional experience within children’s services (or a closely related field), strong practice oversight skills, and the ability to champion the FGC model across a broad partnership network.

Your leadership style will be supportive, reflective and values‑driven — someone who naturally brings people together and keeps children at the heart of every decision.

This advert will close: 11pm on February 22nd 2026

Interviews will take place: Monday 2nd March, in person, in Wokingham.

To hear more about the role, please direct any queries to:

Sara James, Head of Quality Assurance & Safeguarding - Children's Services: sara.james@wokingham.gov.uk or Alix Williams, Recruitment & Retention - Children's Services: alix.williams@wokingham.gov.uk

Please be aware that we will be reviewing the applications we receive on a daily basis, and we reserve the right to close the advert early if suitable candidates are identified.

If your application is shortlisted for an interview, you will be required to provide proof of your right to work in the UK at that stage. Additionally, successful candidates must present proof upon receiving a job offer.

Please note that all offers are conditional and subject to the satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks.

Wokingham Borough Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff, other workers and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates for this role will be subject to Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks along with other relevant employment checks.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we regret that we are unable to respond to every applicant individually.

If you do not hear from us within 4 weeks of the application closing date, please assume that your application has not been successful on this occasion.

We appreciate your interest in joining Wokingham Borough Council and thank you for taking the time to apply.

Wokingham is an equal opportunities employer.