FGC Contextual Safeguarding Coordinator and Family Network Coordinator

The job itselfFamily Group Conference Contextual Safeguarding Coordinator & Family Network Coordinator.The job itselfThe East Riding of Yorkshire Council, Children’s Services have been rated GOOD by Ofsted following our recent ILACS inspection.
Since the last inspection in 2019, the leadership team has made significant and sustained changes in all of the practice and leadership areas identified for improvement. Through extensive engagement with external partners and scrutineers, the improvements in the service mean that children and young people in East Riding receive a timely and effective response and intervention when they need it.
Senior leaders and councillors are clear about what their strengths are and what still needs to be improved in service delivery, and their self-evaluation is accurate.They have ambitious plans and have secured significant investment to develop their services further as part of their continuous improvement journey. Senior leaders lead by example, and this has supported practitioners to embed the relational model of practice with the families they work with.A great and exciting opportunity has arisen within the Participation, Innovation, and Improvement portfolio for an experienced/advanced social worker to join the service in the role of Family Group Conference Contextual Safeguarding Coordinator & Family Network Coordinator.
This role forms part of our continued improvement activity in driving strength based, relational and collaborative practice in our work with children, young people and their networks.
We are an established, effective Family Group Conference (FGC) service in the East Riding of Yorkshire, and now we are keen to develop our Lifelong Networks (LLN) service through a three-year partnership with the Family Rights group and also we have ambitious plans to develop our Family Seeing offer. The role will include the future development and delivery of the East Riding of Yorkshire Contextual Family Meetings, to support young people who have been deemed at risk of significant harm from a contextual safeguarding perspective via an FGC offer to avoid these young people entering the child protection planning system.
The role will also have responsibility for developing the Family Seeing offer and support the practice system to identify and work with Family Networks to strengthen family involvement and relational ways of workings, to safely achieve best outcomes for children and young people within the East Riding of Yorkshire. As an FGC and Contextual Safeguarding Coordinator, you will be required to act as independent facilitator of the East Riding of Yorkshire Contextual Family Meetings ensuring that the correct decisions and recommendations are made when planning, regulating, and providing guidance in the formulation and review of individual plans.
You will ensure Contextual Family meetings are used to strengthen family involvement and relational ways of working with families.You will support and contribute to the progression of the service and ensure the robust integration of the Family Finding offer in the preventative, early intervention and family help and protection strategic developments across Children’s Services and partners, as well as develop a relational based approach through the LLN process to ensure our looked after children reconnect with their networks.You will ensure that the service operates within a framework of equality of opportunity for families from all backgrounds and provides an outcome focused approach, where children and families are firmly at the centre and enabled to actively participate in key decisions and plans to support best life chances.This post is part of a wider commitment by the Children, Families and Schools Directorate to support the practice system to deliver impact and focused outcomes for our children, young people and their networks via building a sustainable foundation of support to our holistic workforce.
This is a great opportunity to be part of an aspirational and forward-thinking Portfolio with a priority of supporting those children, young people and their networks.The Office Base for this role will be County Hall, Beverley although will work across the East Riding of Yorkshire footprint. Working arrangements will be hybrid and working days are Monday to Friday.Our model‘You can, I can, We can’We have created a bespoke practice model that reflects and connects our vision, our value base and our behaviour as one East Riding of Yorkshire approach to working with children, young people and their families, which is nurtured and grown from within East Riding of Yorkshire CYPSSS and owned by our workforce.We remain committed to Signs of Safety as a practice framework, but this will be set within a much wider, values based, model of practice that clearly connects Signs of Safety much more clearly with the East Riding value base, and our overall approach to making and sustaining relationships with children, families, and communities.Without a well embedded model, there is nothing to centre our practice on to ensure that, while the work may be different, all our teams are grounded in the same values, beliefs, theories, and approaches. Having a well-developed practice model helps to create a common language for the service and enables everyone to understand how we go about doing the right things, in the right way and for the right reasons for children and their families.The right candidateYou will contribute to the Quality of Practice agenda within the Directorate to help embed and promote a culture that leads to high quality and impact focused outcomes for children, young people and their families in East Riding of Yorkshire.You will be required to work with service leads, front line managers and front-line practitioners to agreed outcome focused requirements in driving up practice across the Directorate.You will demonstrate good experience of front-line practice, within a children’s social work service with an ability to identify what good practice looks like and have in depth knowledge and understanding of principles and processes of Family Group Conferences.You will have advanced working knowledge of childcare legislative framework, strength based and restorative based approaches, as well as relational based practice.You will have great attention to detail and the ability to interrogate and analyse complex information with good accuracy, including an ability to critically evaluate children and young people’s lived experience so that support can be provided to ensure interventions are outcome and impacted focused.You will need to be social work qualified and have strong experience of social work practice to an advanced social work level, as well as having knowledge and understanding of relational practice with families including solution focussed and strength-based practice strategies.We are a small team and positive relationships are valued. You will also be working with the teams across our service and therefore, it is essential that the post holder is able to work effectively with others with a flexible and adaptable approach in a relational based approach.You will be able to demonstrate a high level of motivation and the ability to work independently, with skills in working within timescales and with conflicting priorities.If you are meet all of these qualities, have the right value base, and are an innovative leader, then what are you waiting for? Apply now and make a difference.
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