Lead for Family Networks - Dorchester, United Kingdom - Dorset Councils

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Description
Organisation

  • Dorset Council
  • Location
  • Dorchester, United Kingdom
  • Reference
  • Occupational group
  • Health and Social Care
  • Children's
  • Salary details
- £59,214 - £66,621

Job term

  • Full Time
  • Appointment type
  • Fixed Term
  • Contact
  • Paul Dempsey
  • Contact
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  • Closing Date
  • 07 September :00 PM

Lead for Family Networks:


37 hours (flexible working considered):


Fixed Term until 30th November 2025:


Salary £59,214 - £66,621:


County Hall, Dorchester, combined with home-working:


What's in it for you:


I'm Paul Dempsey, Corporate Director - Care & Protection, and I am delighted to offer you the opportunity to become our new Lead for Family Networks.

This is a pivotal role that we have created to lead on the Family Networks pillar in the Stable Homes Built on Love Strategy and the Families First for Children Pathfinder.


The two-year Pathfinder programme will build on the work we have already successfully undertaken in Dorset to create locality based multi-disciplinary services and support, ensuring that we are well placed to deliver ambitious outcomes for our children, young people and families.


As the Lead for Family Networks in Dorset you will ensure that families are at the heart of our decision making and that kinship care is a priority.

You will make sure that this is embedded throughout all our work to deliver the 'Stable Homes, Built on Love' strategy.

You will co-design and deliver the Family Network Strategy in collaboration with children, young people and families, our workforce, and local and national partners.


What you can expect to be doing:

Working across organisational boundaries and multiple programmes and projects you will be an enabler to ensuring the partnership's work impacts on improving the experiences of our diverse families, and improving the outcomes for the communities we serve.

You will have the professional maturity to provide challenge to ensure that the voice of families is present in decision making.


You will be expected to develop a culture of collaboration, building on our relationships with key stakeholders across the local authority and the partnership and improving the sharing of knowledge and best practice as we progress with co-design and implementation of our new model.

This might include, but is not limited to, learning lessons from the Ofsted local area inspections, developing joint working across education, health and social care, and improving the quality of the local area workforce.

The role will report directly to me as Corporate Director.

I am really excited about this new opportunity for us in Dorset and committing my time and energy to work with you, support you and learn from you.


About you:

This role will evidence progress across the following key areas:

  • Design and deliver the Family Network Strategy
  • Development and support of kinship care arrangements
  • Ensure stakeholders, children, young people and families are effectively engaged and involved in coproduction of the Family Network Strategy
  • Have a strategy for evaluating the impact of the work
  • Evidence of an improved experience for children and young people and their families.
  • Developing and sharing innovative practice around key issues, developments and peer analysis, to ensure Dorset is at the cutting edge of sector best practice.
  • Family Network decision making
  • Embedding our commitment to put our families at the heart of decision making in all parts of children's service (including practice and strategic development)
  • Support the development of national policy
In addition to the job description, you will be able to demonstrate your experience in:

  • Strategy development and implementation
  • Influencing legal practice
  • Developing and implementing innovative change programmes in a complex organisation
  • Effective partnership working
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills

Additional Information:


The ability to converse at ease with customers and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post.

This post is funded for 2 years through our Pathfinder programme.


Closing date: 7 September 2023

Interviews: 22 and 25 September 2023
This post requires significant travel. You must have a vehicle (or transport we deem suitable) available for use as needed.

See our policy on safeguarding children and young people.


You must:
- have a degree in social work

See the children's social worker framework.


Dorset Council:

A great place to work:
We're passionate about making Dorset a great place to live, work and visit. Working for us should be no exception.


At Dorset Council we:
- provide more than 450 services to over 300,000 residents
- have ambitious aspirations
- are excited about our future
- care about Dorset and all the people who live here
- know that all roles make a difference and that our employees are key to our success


You will:
- have
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