Contact Supervisor

Job description

Contract Terms

Grade: SC6
Salary: £32,925 – £33,957 per annum
Contract Type: Full-Time, Permanent (36 Hours per week)
Closing Date: Sunday 8th September 2024
Interview Date: 18th & 19th September 2024

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 aim of the service is to provide a safe, secure and child friendly environment where children can have face-to-face contact with family members.
A range of contact services are offered including:

• Fully supervised contact (with a lead worker and includes a report)
• Supported contact where we can observe beginnings and endings, also throughout if required (lead worker and short report)
• Rehabilitation contact where there is a schedule of gradually increasing contact which moves to the family home (with a lead worker and includes a report) After each contact session parents are given the opportunity to have feedback from the supervisor. By providing specific parenting advice, where appropriate and agreed by the parents the contact supervisor’s observations can also provide evidence of parents’ capacity to make and sustain positive changes in contact sessions.

About You

In this role, you will be responsible for supervising and facilitating contact between looked-after children and their parents or significant others, ensuring that these interactions are safe, positive, and contribute to the best possible outcomes for the children involved. As a corporate parent, you will deliver a high-quality service by closely observing, monitoring, and assessing family dynamics during contact sessions, and by providing timely, accurate, and evidence-based reports that may be used in court proceedings. Your work will be guided by social workers and will require a thorough understanding of safeguarding children’s welfare, strong communication skills, and experience working in social care, particularly with individuals from diverse backgrounds.

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 up to 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and well-being 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