Practice Supervisor - Family Solutions

Practice Supervisor - Family Solutions

Permanent, Full Time

£45,217 to £54,395 per annum

Location: Chelmsford

Working Style: Community-based worker

Closing Date: 9th December 2024

We are a dynamic, passionate, supportive and vibrant team who provide
intensive support to families and we ensure that family empowerment is at
the heart of our interventions. You will be joining a well-established and
high performing team at a time when we are growing and evolving as a
service.

We would love to hear from interested and suitably experienced applicants
who are committed to working with whole families to help them achieve their
outcomes and improve their family lives.

The Role

The postholder will work closely with the Team Manager to enable the Family
Workers to continue to deliver positive outcomes for children, young people
and the families we support as well as maintaining the effective working
relationships that we have developed with partners. The role will involve
you supervising staff from a range of professional backgrounds, supporting
them to work creatively and innovatively. It also requires you to manage
new referrals via a duty system making decisions about required actions and
allocating work.

What you will need

· Professionally qualified in social work and registered with Social Work
England. Ideally you will hold a practice educator qualification or be
willing to work towards achieving one and have some supervisory experience.

· Demonstrable skills in staff supervision, and an ability to problem solve
in crisis. Willingness to undertake observed practice with staff members
and able to use this observation to promote staff practice development.

· Commitment to practice improvement and able to utilise the principles of
effective practice to improve outcomes for young people who offend and/or
are criminally exploited, are in poor mental health, and/ or are not
experiencing good relationships within their families.

· Good presentation skills and be able to use these to represent the team
(in the absence of the Team Manager) at locality strategic planning such as
Children and Young Peoples Strategic Partnerships and Crime and Disorder
Reduction Partnerships.

· At least three years post qualified with evidence of post qualification
development.

· Knowledge of key Children’s Service legislation and practice issues as
well as extensive knowledge of Criminal Justice legislation and National
Standards. To use this knowledge to manage a cases allocated to the
supervisees, devise safety plans and take appropriate action to ameliorate
risk is an integral part of this role. We are particularly informed within
this service by Solutions Focused, Systemic and Trauma empirical
influences.

· A very strong understanding of the Supporting Families Agenda, its
criteria and outcomes framework to enable the service to make claims to
central Government.

To read more about us please visit:

Children & Families

Please take a look at our
‘No Magic’ Children & Families video

The role requires you to be mobile throughout a wider operational area
including travelling around the county of Essex and beyond, transporting
service users and their belongings and to be able to do so in an emergency.
Driving licence and car or the ability to meet the mobility requirements of
the role through other means is essential.

Essex County Council is proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We’re
committed to interview all disabled applicants who choose to apply under
our Job Interview Scheme if they meet the minimum requirements of the job.
Please speak to our Recruiters if you require any reasonable adjustments
during the process.

We’re also committed to interview all veterans and care leavers, who meet
the minimum requirements of the role for which they are applying.

As part of employment with Essex County Council (ECC) should your role
require a DBS check you will be required to register with the DBS update
service. The DBS update service ensures all registered DBS certificates
are kept up to date and allows authorised parties to view the status of
your certificate. This is an annual subscription, and you will be
responsible for ensuring this is maintained. For further information on
the DBS update service please go to

https://www.gov.uk/dbs-update-service

Essex County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the
welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all employees and
volunteers to share this commitment.

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