(Fixed Term) Family Time Contact Supervisor - Specialist Intervention Service

We use cookies on this site to enhance your user experience By clicking the Accept button, you agree to us doing so. Accept No, thanks Skip to main content Main navigation My B&D Logout Search Search Services NEW survey is out to improve the council website Get an early look at the new website design and put it to the test! See the new survey available here Hide (Fixed Term) Family Time Contact Supervisor - Specialist Intervention Service Apply online About this job Role: Family Contact Worker Department: Specialist Intervention Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract (Until March 2027) Hours per Week: 35 Compensation: Scale 6 We are looking for a committed and passionate Family Contact Worker in a 1 Year Fixed Term Contract vacancy to supervise family contact time for children of various ages who are in Local Authority Care, helping families enjoy their time together. This role also offers the opportunity to gain experience in areas such as creating positive environments, leading mediation, delivering training sessions and producing reports. Barking & Dagenham Children’s Care and Support Services are on a journey of transformation and improvement. In the Specialist Intervention Service, we have created a hub of preventative intervention offers to assist in reducing the number of children who enter the care system as well as improving their life chances and safety. We are working with colleagues across Care and Support to improve the outcomes for children and young people. Family contact is to promote and sustain the child’s relationship with their family and to provide high quality, positive time for them to connect and interact. It is also to give the social workers a better understanding of how parents and children interact as par   Special requirements for this post This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and a comprehensive screening process will be undertaken on successful applicants including an Enhanced Children’s Department of Barring Services check   About you As a Family Contact Worker, you need to have experience of working with children who are on child protection plans or local authority care. Be a skilled, experienced, motivated, and caring practitioner who can engage children, young people and family members & use a variety of techniques to assist them in changing behaviour and develop creative solutions. You need to have excellent verbal and written communication skills alongside analytical ability and confident decision making, whilst demonstrating the ability to incorporate the Strengthening Families Model which builds on families’ strengths with a focus on protective factors. We want people that embody our organisational values and care about our communities and borough. If you have the knowledge, skills and experience required for this role and share our values, we would like to hear from you   About us Barking & Dagenham is changing. It Starts Here. Think you know Barking and Dagenham? Think again. While this small corner of east London might have a reputation for needing development, scratch beneath the surface and you’ll find active communities and a place that consistently punches above its weight. The borough is changing – and changing for the better. And It Starts Here. Yes, the borough has its challenges. But it’s on the cusp of something exciting. With one of the youngest populations in the country, ambitions are high and rightly so. 98% of our schools are rated Good or Outstanding and every year more of our talented teenagers get into Russell Group Universities and hotly sought after apprenticeship schemes. We have award winning parks, centuries old manor houses full of relics and artifacts you can go and see, and the ruins of one of Anglo-Saxon England's most powerful and wealthiest religious sites. We’re even bringing beavers and white storks to the borough to help rewild the local landscape and boost biodiversity. Over the past few years, we’ve been