Assistant Family Group Conference Coordinator

Job description

Contract Terms

Grade: PO1
Salary: £38,934 – £40,755 per annum
Contract Type: Full Time, Permanent (36 Hours per week)
Closing Date: Monday 5th May 2025
Interview Date: Week commencing 12th May 2025

About Haringey

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.
Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

About the Role

The role described is that of a community-based worker within Haringey’s Maya Angelou Family Group Conference Service. This service operates as part of a team of practitioners, with the primary responsibility of coordinating and facilitating Family Group Conferences (FGC) throughout the London Borough of Haringey. The core objective of this role is to support family members in identifying solutions to issues or concerns raised by professionals and collaboratively developing a Family Action Plan to address these concerns effectively.
The community-based worker’s responsibilities are centered around assisting families in finding resolutions to the challenges they are facing. This involves fostering communication, collaboration, and problem-solving among family members to create a comprehensive plan of action. The Family Group Conference Service operates under the guidance of a Family Group Conference Coordinator, and the community-based worker plays a crucial role in delivering these plans to families across Haringey in a timely manner.
In essence, this role is dedicated to promoting family empowerment and self-determination by facilitating constructive discussions and action plans within a supportive community framework. It emphasizes the importance of involving families in decision-making processes, working alongside professionals, and ensuring that the concerns of all stakeholders are addressed effectively.

About You

The role involves responding to referrals for Family Group Conferences (FGCs) from various Children’s Social Care teams. The primary responsibilities include:

• Facilitating FGCs with the wider family and professional network to make decisions regarding children and young people in need of care and protection, in line with the Children’s Act and Every Child Matters 2003 document.
• Implementing time-limited, solution-focused, and intensive interventions to achieve the goals of the FGC.
• Respecting and preserving the authority of the family during the FGC process.
• Ensuring all family members and connections are invited to the conference; collecting and reflecting the views of absent members.
• Presenting all evidence, including family assessments, to families for consideration during the FGC.
• Collaborating with referring social workers and family network members while maintaining an independent stance aligned with the FGC model; conducting preparatory work with parents and the wider family.
• Engaging with families with complex needs and diverse backgrounds to find suitable solutions and achieve the best outcomes for children.
• Supporting children through direct communication and ensuring their centrality in the FGC process.
• Organizing family meetings to develop the family plan and distributing it within agreed timeframes.
• Maintaining accurate records for FGC purposes.
• Offering high-quality FGCs to assist families in making decisions for their children and young people.
• Delivering the service in accordance with Haringey Children’s Social Care guidance, procedures, and Family Rights Group standards for FGCs.
• Maintaining confidentiality during and after employment with Haringey Council, following Haringey policies and Data Protection Laws.
• Adhering to the council’s requirements for storing and protecting personal information, in compliance with Data Protection Laws.

Working for Haringey

At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community.  Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement of 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.

Please note: we reserve the right to end this advert before the noted deadline if we receive sufficient applications. If you wish to apply for this role, please ensure that you do so as soon as possible. Additionally, we are aware that automated emails may be diverted through to junk email folders.  Please continue to check these through the application process.  If you have any questions about the status of your application, please contact ResourcingHub@haringey.gov.uk