AddressBrighter Futures for Children
Full Time, Fixed Term Contract until 31st March 2025
About Brighter Futures for Children
Brighter Futures for Children is a not-for-profit company, owned by, but independent of, Reading Borough Council. Although we are independent, we are very much part of the Reading Family. Our people enjoy all of benefits as other Council employees including membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and continuous service.
We work closely with partners in the local community and key organisations including Reading Borough Council, policy, public health and voluntary groups. We are responsible for the delivery of children’s social care, early help & prevention, education services (including SEND). This also includes fostering and adoption, the Youth Offending Service and traded services with schools.
Our main aim is to protect and enhance the lives of the children of Reading. We help families find long-term solutions to ensure children lead happy, healthy and successful lives.
The Role & Team
Along with our partners, we believe early help is a collaborative approach and response, not a single provision. We know that early help, at the right time, in the right place improves outcomes for children and young people. The Partnership Team Assistant Team Manager (ATM) will lead and manage a small team of Partnership Outreach Workers that offer support, advice and guidance to a range of partners across the children, young people and adult workforce to develop their skills and confidence on delivering on their responsibilities to offer effective early help support to children, young people and their families. We’re looking for someone who can drive an agenda to enable partners to help families as soon as difficulties arise. You will also support the administration, co-ordination and planning for the One Reading Children and Young People’s partnership board.
You will have a qualification in Childcare, Education, Health, Youth Work, Social Work, Community Development or equivalent professional qualification related to work with children, young people and/or families. You will be able to demonstrate your experience of working in a multi-agency environment to improve outcomes for families. You will be responsible for the day-to-day operational management of the team, including providing supervision to ensure high standards of support and evaluation of impact. You will also be responsible for the weekly delivery of multidisciplinary hub meetings, and you be able to maintain and continue to develop positive working relationships with the front door for early help and safeguarding and the family help teams who deliver targeted support and intervention to families who require this support.
You will need to be proactive and lead the team to identify potential barriers and solutions with internal and external stakeholders whilst driving through change in a sensitive but tenacious manner.
The post is open (internally) to a secondment opportunity with line managers agreement. The post is also open to consideration of part time hours.
Our offer
We offer a supportive environment to grow and develop your career with the opportunity to put your ideas across. Innovation and ambition are strongly encouraged, and you’ll get a great feel for that working in our friendly and collaborative environment.
A competitive salary alongside a range of benefits including:
- A competitive salary alongside a range of benefits including:
- Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution
- Incremental holidays starting with 26 days plus public holidays (rising to 33 after 10 years’ service)
- Discounted Child Care (on site nursery)
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Season train ticket loans
- Salary Sacrifice Car Lease Scheme
- A range of local shopping discounts
- Remote/Agile working
For an informal discussion please contact Jackelyn Dance (Service Manager for Children’s Single Point of Access and Partnerships) on 07929874018
Inclusion and Diversity
We want Brighter Futures for Children to be a great place to work and to ensure that our children, young people and families are represented in leadership roles and positions of power. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking.
We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and those of Other Ethnicities, LGBT+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to our children, young people and families so that equalities and justice remains at the heart of everything we do.
Asking for Adjustments
Brighter Futures for Children is committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and as accessible as possible for everyone. This includes making adjustments or changes for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions.
If you would like us to do anything differently during the application, interview or assessment process, including providing information in an alternative format, please let us know.
Closing date: 17 March 2024
Interview date: 22 March 2024
We look forward to hearing from you!
