Family Group Conference Co-ordinator

Overview Are you ready to champion family led planning across a transforming children's services? Are you a calm, skilled facilitator who brings families together when it matters most? Put families at the heart of decisons with #TeamNEL As part of our ongoing commitment to empowering families to be involved in the decisions that affect their lives, we are developing our Family Group Decision Making practice. An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Family Group Conference Coordinator within North East Lincolnshire Council's Children's Services. This is a really great time to join us as we implement and embed Family Group Decision Making in our work. What will my day look like? Your role will include facilitating Family Network Meetings and Family Group Conferences alongside supporting the implementation of Family Group Decision Making training and practice development across services. You will champion the principles of Family Group Decision Making across our partnerships advocating for family led decision making approaches. Now is an exciting time to join us as we further develop, implement and embed a whole-system approach to Family Group Decision Making. We are changing lives and the fastest transforming children's services team in the country. If you are passionate and focussed on making a lifelong difference to children's lives and improve their outcomes, we want to hear from you. About you We are looking for a someone who is passionate about empowering children and families to create meaningful and lasting change. You will have experience of working with children and families, multi-agency working and have knowledge of legislation and guidance for working with children and families. You will have either a relevant level 4 qualification or equivalent knowledge, skills and experience. Your knowledge and skills will include building and developing relationships to enable a positive difference to children and families. You must have a clear understanding of the principles of Family Group Decision Making whilst we will invest in your ongoing learning and development in family led planning and decision making approaches. Our Team As part of our team, you will be supported through relational leadership with high aspirations for children and families and who are committed to empowering them to thrive. We offer you the opportunity to work in a supportive and friendly team, contributing to family led practice to support children and help families to stay together safely. We offer you diverse training and professional development opportunities, a highly rewarding environment where you can really make a difference to the lives of children, their families and family networks as well as a range of workplace benefits. For more information Please refer to the role profile or email: Julie Bettany - Workforce Lead at Julie.bettany@nelincs.gov.uk or Nikki Alcock - Deputy Service Director: Practice Standards and Principal Social Worker at Nikki.alcock@nelincs.gov.uk We look forward to talking with you. What else can you expect? * Regular individual and reflective child focussed, professional and personal supervision * A relational approach in all aspects of practice * Accessible and proactive management that creates the conditions for the workforce to flourish and make a real difference to people's lives * A highly supportive team and working environment Key Dates We aim to interview candidates w/c 30/03/2026 Safer Recruitment In order to fully comply with Safer Recruitment guidelines, if you are successful with your application, you must meet the below criteria and be able to provide: * At least one reference must be from your current or most recent employment * You must provide a professional/company email address (we cannot accept personal email addresses) * References must cover the last 3 years, any reasons for gaps should be detailed in your enhanced reference form. Your references will only be requested if you are offered and have accepted a position Please note: This role requires a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at a level appropriate to the post. It is a contractual and essential requirement that the successful candidate is registered with the DBS Update Service. You have 30 calendar days from the "date of issue" printed on your standard or enhanced DBS certificate to register for the DBS Update Service using the certificate number. We reserve the right to close our adverts early if we have received a significant volume of suitable applications. We love AI and think it plays a great role in the world of work. However, for your application, we want to hear from YOU! As such, we will be testing applications to determine the use of AI, and applications that have heavily utilised the function will be scrutinised for suitability. As part of your RewardNEL package, you will have a generous leave entitlement (including bank holidays) and enrolment into a local government pension. You will also have access to our exclusive RewardNEL platform. This includes a variety of salary sacrifice schemes including Cycle2Work, Holiday Extra and Tusker (Car Lease), discounts at local coffee shops and bars, direct access to our inhouse wellbeing support, free and discounted local car parking as well as instant access to new savings at major retailers, entertainment and hotels. NELC staff can also benefit from flexible working and excellent training and development opportunities and a Fostering friendly scheme. Do you need support? If you need any help applying for this position, please contact Wendy Trask on 07702 338542 (text or call). Wendy can support with digital access as well as offering advice and guidance about completing the different sections of the application form. 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