Keeping Families Together Coach

Job Description

London Borough of Harrow is looking for a Keeping Families Together (KFT) Coach to join its KFT Team, to prevent children and young people from escalating into statutory services and avoiding children becoming looked after wherever possible and appropriate.

You will be working with young people (predominantly 11-18 years, some under 10yrs) and their families with complex, chronic needs or who are hard to reach to improve their outcomes, effect positive change. In addition, you will be responsible for providing urgent and rapid support that helps parents to strengthen their parenting capacity and bring about positive changes of behaviour, to enable children to continue living within their family networks with minimum statutory support. When supporting young people, you must ensure they have access to the service they are referred to, and are engaged in a range of learning, leisure, recreational and sports activities to meet their individual needs.

The successful post holder will co-work and hold a caseload of approximately 8-10 families at any one time therefore working you will be expected to work unsociable hours including occasional evenings as and when required.

The successful candidate will have:

• Knowledge of child development and relevant legislation, policy and practice.
• Ability to communicate effectively with you people and vulnerable adults and motivate them to address issues that affect their daily lives.
• Significant experience of working with children, young people and families with complex and multiple needs.
• Experience of working within or in conjunction with Statutory Services.
• Ability to co-produce stretching work goals and targets with families.
• Ability to motivate children, young people and adults.
• Ability to respond in a rapid and calm manner to crisis / complex situations applying solution focused techniques and approaches.
• Degree / post grad dip or equivalent: Social Work, Psychology, Systemic / Family Therapy, Youth Justice etc.

• Working unsociable working hours including occasional evenings.

• Able to travel widely and frequently across the borough for business purposes.

For more information, please refer to the Role Profile/Selection Criteria

About us

Harrow Council is the 12th largest London borough and one of the most culturally diverse local authorities in the UK, making it a great place to live, work and visit with a range of cultures, religions and opinions that come together to produce high achieving schools and a close and friendly community. Located 10 miles from the city centre and just 13 minutes to Euston from Harrow & Wealdstone station there are great transport links via the Metropolitan Line, Watford DC Line and national rail service. It is easily accessible to the M1, M25 and A406.

Other information

Support for candidates visit:Harrow.gov.uk Our behavioural indicators roles below G11 and above G11 Here at Harrow Council, the vision is one of 'Working together to make a difference for Harrow' Please click here to view Harrow Council's benefits

Important Note

To deliver our commitment to equality of opportunity in service provision, all staff are expected to promote equality in the workplace and in the services the Council delivers. All sections of the population will have equal access to jobs at the London Borough of Harrow. No applicant or employee will receive less favourable treatment because of age, disability, gender, reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy, or maternity unless a Genuine Occupational Qualification applies. As such, we value diversity and welcome applications from all backgrounds. For further information, please read our equality statement.

As a disability-confident employer, we are committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and accessible to everyone. This includes reasonably adjusting the recruitment process for those with disabilities or long-term health conditions. For further information, please contact us at resourcing@harrow.gov.uk

London Borough of Harrow is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Harrow operates stringent, safer recruitment procedures.

Due to the high number of applications received for some posts, we may close vacancies before the stated closing date if sufficient applications are received. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible.

Harrow redeployees will be given priority consideration.

The personal information we have collected from you will be shared with Cifas who will use it to prevent fraud, other unlawful or dishonest conduct, malpractice, and other seriously improper conduct. If any of these are detected you could be refused certain services or employment. Your personal information will also be used to verify your identity. Further details of how your information will be used by us and Cifas, any your data protection rights, can be found by visiting www.cifas.org.uk/fpn