Family Support Manager (Tees Valley)

The Family Support Manager is a key staff role which involves working with families and facilitating support from volunteers recruited from the local church and community.

You would work as part of the Tees valley team which includes Hartlepool, Darlington, Stockton and Middlesbrough, and you will need to be able to travel and work predominantly across all areas.

You would be involved from initial referral from school or Local Authority, through to official completion of Safe Families' support, including risk assessment of a family situation, identifying goals, matching and introducing volunteers, providing on-going mentoring and support to volunteers and assessing when outcomes have been achieved. Your objective is to help support families navigate challenging circumstances through connecting them into local volunteer based, sustainable support.

The role requires experience of working with children, families or other vulnerable groups, and knowledge and application of safeguarding principles and processes. It is an incredibly exciting role where you would have the privilege of seeing how the simplest of actions, often from dedicated volunteers, really can bring hope and transformation to families and care leavers

CONTRACT TYPE

This is a permanent contract. Subject to continued partnership funding.

HOURS OF WORK

Part time 0.6 - 0.6 (22 hours 30 minutes)

LOCATION

Based out of our Darlington office. (Flexibility to work from home up to 40% of the week)

HOLIDAY ENTITLEMENT

36 days annual leave allowance (inclusive of bank holidays and Christmas closure), option to purchase additional leave and extra days added to your allowance with length of service. Pro-rated for part time staff.

As you may have already heard, in September 2024 we announced that Safe Families had merged with Home for Good.

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