Family Group Conference Lead

Job Introduction

Are you passionate about working restoratively and "with" families to enable families to live together. If you are, we have an exciting opportunity for a six month secondment to cover the Family Group Conference (FGC) Lead.

The FGC service is part of the Edge of Care Service within Futures Matters and we are looking for an experienced practitioner who is dynamic, passionate, motivated and who wholeheartedly believes in supporting families to stay together through drawing upon family strengths and support to enable children to remain cared for within their family.

The core purpose of this post is to manage and allocate requests for an FGC into the team in a timely way, provide advice and guidance to our partner agencies and teams within the Local Authority, management oversight and quality assurance of service delivery and family plans, supervision of the team and promoting collaborative decision-making.

This post is for 18.5 hours working the latter part of the week with attendance at team meeting on a Wednesday.

Main Responsibilities

You'll be:

• Responding and managing all the referrals/requests for a Family Group Conference into the team
• Allocating all requests appropriately to the Family Group Conference Convenors
• Providing advice and support to the districts around the criteria and the appropriateness of holding a Family Meeting or Family Group Conference.
• Providing Quality supervision to the team, Quality assuring all work undertaken by the team, undertaking observations
• Working collaboratively with the Edge of Care Service, supporting the other Senior Practitioners and the teams and where required to cover in their absence

The Ideal Candidate

You'll have:

• CQSW/Dip SW/relevant Degree or equivalent experience and understanding Family Group conference principles, methodology, completed the training and have extensive experience of undertaking Family Group Conference.
• Experience in a coaching and mentoring others and have had a supervisory role within Social Work
• Experience in undertaking observations of practice, quality assuring work which includes family plans, risk assessments
• experience of delivering quality supervision, providing high challenge/high support

For an informal chat about the role please contact Kirsten Booth, Edge of Care Manager on 07815 999 066 or kirsten.booth@staffordshire.gov.uk

Interviews will take place at Staffordshire place 1 on 11/08/2026

Our Recruitment Process: We anonymise applications during shortlisting to ensure only relevant information is considered. Please complete your application fully, especially the supporting statement, to highlight what you’ll bring to the role. Please note: The minimum essential criteria in the ideal candidate section detailed above will be used if you are applying under one of our Interview Guarantee Schemes detailed below.

About Staffordshire County Council

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In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire

Our recruitment process:

As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities

As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Gold Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post.

As you’ll know safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people/vulnerable adults is important to us and that’s why this position is subject to a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service. If applicable you should disclose details of unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions in your application form.