Family Wellbeing Team Leader - Weston-super-Mare, United Kingdom - North Somerset Council

North Somerset Council

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Weston-super-Mare, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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About the role

The Team Leader position within the Family Wellbeing Team for the Supporting Families Programme in North Somerset Council offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to the Early Help Supporting Families work.

The role involves direct line management responsibilities, overseeing project and support workers and ensuring supervisions, appraisals, and team meetings.

Key responsibilities include managing the Supporting Families Programme, developing project plans, overseeing Family Support Workers, and maintaining robust governance and monitoring arrangements.

The Team Leader will engage with multi-agency partners and stakeholders, while also handling financial management and reporting on funding and budget streams.

An excellent understanding of safeguarding, financial management, and supporting community and partnership projects is essential for prospective applicants.

The vision and commitment of Children's Service in North Somerset ensures that a high quality and child centred approach, and clear model of practise based on building effective relationships - ensuring the right help at the right time.

Every Child should grow up in a safe and loving home, where they can feel supported to navigate through challenges that life presents.

We are committed to help children, young people and their families get the right support at an Early Help level; we aim to support families to prevent challenges escalating.

We work to 6 core values:

Relationships matter
Seeing hearing the child or young person's voice relating to their lived experience
Understanding the child's or young persons lived experience
Responding to child's voice or young people's voice to improve their lived experience
Outcome focused practise
Language that cares

Valid driving licence and own transport, or be able to provide alternative, suitable method of travel is an essential condition for this role.

About you

To be successful you will:

Be qualified at Level six or above in the relevant field. With leadership and management experience.
Have experience with working with children, young people, and families within the Early help arena as well as families facing more challenging circumstances.
Have leadership and
Have a good understanding of the Supporting Families programme, with the ambition to drive and deliver the programme.
Be able to understand and process data reporting and have an analytical approach for planning.
Be competent in managing budgets, funding forecasts and payment by results.
Have a strong commitment to working in partnership with multiagency professionals.
Have strong organisational and planning skills.
The ability to work to deadlines.
Have good interpersonal skills with the ability to build relationships.
Work well within a team and on your own initiative.
Work in a way which is considerate to anti discriminatory practise.

About us:

Our vision
Our council vision is 'an open, fairer, greener North Somerset' and we have three key priorities:

A thriving and sustainable place
A council which empowers and cares about people
An open and enabling organisation.

Our values
Our organisational values are important. They help guide us in how we work and provide services for our residents. Our people produced our values in collaboration with elected members.

They provide a strong ethos and help us to deliver our ambitious agenda, working in partnership across the council and beyond:

We act with integrity.
We respect each other.
We innovate.
We care.
We collaborate.

Our Benefits**We offer:

A competitive salary,
Family leave options,
A pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and illhealth protection,
Opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential,
Generous leave entitlement (27 days, rising to 32 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days,
Discounts on shopping, days out, travel and gym memberships,
Agile and flexible working arrangements to help you enjoy a healthy worklife balance,
24/7 access to our Employee Assistance Programme.

Want to know more and apply?
For an informal discussion, please contact
Tracey Lewis on

Anticipated interview date:
Monday 20 May 2024
**North Somerset Council - Open, Fairer, Greener.