Effective Practice Coordinator x 4
Vacancy Details
| Summary | |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £34,728 - £37,890 (Subject to Review) |
| Job Type: | Full Time, Permanent |
| Category: | City Council (Internal Vacancy) |
| Closing Date: | 31/01/2022 |
| Reference: | 0000012734 |
Description
Directorate: Children and Family Services
Section:
Early Intervention and Children's Social Care: Supporting Families
Grade:
Level 11 (Subject to Review)
Hours: 37 hours per
week
This advert is open to Internal applicants
only.
Four exciting new posts have been created
within the Supporting Families Service to provide leadership, training and
support to front line early help practitioners across the partnership. Working within a defined locality you will
undertake and annual training needs analysis and support partners and
practitioners where areas for improvement have been identified. You will also work closely with commissioners
to undertake an annual locality based analysis of need and ensure services are
commissioned on the basis of need in each of the four localities. As part of
the leadership team you will strive to improve quality of practice by ensuring
practitioners have the right tools to enable them to deliver high quality
services. You will work closely with the
ChAD service to identify training and support needs of partners using data and
analysis to support the planning of your work.
You will lead a team of Family Support Group Practitioners to ensure
that high quality evidence based interventions are delivered effectively to
parents and that those interventions are subject to robust evaluation. You will embed the shared assessment
framework supporting partners and practitioners to undertake high quality
assessments and plans that improve outcomes for children, identify and respond
to risk appropriately and proportionately and to work in a restorative to
empower families to thrive. You will lead and coordinate locality based
networks, strengthening relationships between services, schools and
communities. You will support the
development of a Family Hub model working to ensure that start for life
services and complementary targeted services join up to wrap around families
and respond to their needs in a flexible, timely way within the context of the
Thrive framework. You will collate and analyse complex data sets in order to
identify strengths, areas for improvement and develop a consistent high quality
service for families in Stoke-on-Trent. You will put children at the heart of
everything you do, challenge poor practice and performance and promote a culture
of integrity, respect and inclusion leading in a restorative relational
way.
We are committed to safeguarding and
promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and we
expect all our employees and volunteers to share this commitment. This position is exempt under the
Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the successful applicant will be
subject to a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service
(DBS).
Please note that if an employee who is
currently at risk of redundancy within the organisation applies for this
vacancy their application will receive priority. If this happens you will
be advised accordingly.
To Apply
Please create / log into your account and
then click 'apply'. If you have any
queries or want an application form in another format, please email recruitment@stoke.gov.uk or call us
on 01782 238189.
In order to apply for this vacancy, you must be able to supply the required answers to the following questions:
- Do you work for Stoke-on-Trent City Council or UNITAS (including agency work)?