CHILD ACTION NORTHWEST -PERSON SPECIFICATION

FAMILYWISE TEAM LEADER

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Qualifications

  • NVQ level 4 or above in Social Care / Children, Young People & Families / Education / Child Care or Equivalent.
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  • Social Work Qualification
  • Degree level Qualification
  • Supervisory Qualification
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Experience/Skills

  • Substantial post qualified experience of working in partnership with parents and families (Children & Young People)
  • Line management experience of staff delivering complex family support.
  • Substantial experience of solution focused case management and professional development supervision processes.
  • Substantial experience in using and reviewingrisk assessments.
  • Substantial experience and skills in Safeguarding Children, Young People and Vulnerable Adults.
  • Experience / Skills in coaching & supportingstaff in their day to day delivery.
  • Experience of partnership working in a multi agency setting (Statutory & voluntary agencies)
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Experience/Skills (cont)
  • Excellent level of effective and motivationalcommunicationskills (verbal and written)
  • Good Information Technology skills
  • Experience of developing, delivering and overseeing group work.
  • Excellent organisational and time management skills.
  • Ability to effectively chair meetings, deliver team development workshops and induction programmes.

Experience in providing representation and communicating information at meetings and forums.

  • Significant experience of maintaining customer relations and ensuring the quality of day to day service delivery.
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  • Experience of engaging troubled families / hard to engage families.
  • Skills in supporting staff to engage families from a sanctions based approach.
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Knowledge
  • Knowledge of appropriate child care legislation (Every Child Matters / Working Together to Safeguard Children 2013)
  • Troubled Families (National) Strategies.
  • Think Family (BwD), Lancashire Improving Futures (LCC) Working Together with Families (LCC).
  • Broad understanding of internal and external Safeguarding policies and procedures and their implications for family support services – (trained up to level 3 in safeguarding).
  • Substantial knowledge and understanding of child and adolescent development and appropriate models.
  • Broad understanding of the framework for the assessment of children in need / struggling to cope and their families (CAF)
  • Knowledge and understanding of family dynamics and the difficulties families experience.
  • Knowledge of a range of parenting / family support interventions and their strengths and limitations.
  • Knowledge of leadership and management styles and their strengths and limitations.
  • Demonstrate an awareness of equal opportunities issues.
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  • Up-to-date working knowledge of current Government legislation
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Work-related Issues

  • Ability to work on own initiative
  • Ability to allocate and review workload of others.
  • Ability to lead and motivate others.
  • Willingness to work outside of normal office hours
  • Awareness of Health and Safety issues
  • To participate in supervision and staff appraisal scheme to identify training needs
  • Access to own transport for work purposes
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  • Awareness of monitoring and evaluation systems to measure outcomes for families.
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May 2013

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