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

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 working hard to improve how we deliver services and support our community. From tackling inequality to making sure our services are the best they can be, we’re focused on what matters most to local people. We’re creating the conditions for people to thrive - so everyone can enjoy a good quality of life, feel proud to call this place home, and be part of something bigger.

#ItStartsHere - with our streets, our schools, our neighbourhoods. And with your application to join our determined team who are passionate about doing what’s best for the future of Barking and Dagenham. As an Investors in People Gold Award employer, we’re serious about supporting our staff. From flexible working, professional training and career development to wellbeing initiatives, we want our people to feel valued and supported in everything they do.