Family Group Conference coordinator; Casual

Achieving for Children is recruiting experienced Family Group Conference (FGC) Co-ordinators across Kingston, Richmond, Windsor, and Maidenhead. The FGC model brings family members and friends together to develop safe, supportive, and sustainable solutions for children within the family. In this role, you will organise and facilitate these meetings, empowering the family network to make their own decisions regarding the care and wellbeing of their children.

The salary advertised is the full-time equivalent (FTE) and will be pro-rata based on casual work.

Achieving for Children is currently seeking to recruit a few experienced Family Group Conference Co-ordinators. The FGC model is used to bring family members and friends together to look at how they can collectively provide safe, supportive, and sustainable solutions to the problems being experienced in caring for children within the family.

• Your role is to arrange and organise the meeting and empower/ assist the family group members to come to their own decisions about how they will care for their child/ren.
• You will also assist the referrers and other professionals/ information providers with the contents in preparing FGC Agenda/ Questions and at the FGC.
• You will give an importance to facilitating the participation of the children/ young people and their families when they are working with agencies.
• Good communication skills and the ability to engage quickly with clients will be essential. Mediation skills are vital to the post in order that differences of opinion can be expressed constructively.
• You will also be adaptable and flexible with the ability to organise and plan your own workload, with an ongoing commitment to continuous improvement.

For further information about this role, please contact Rachael Park-Davies by emailing Rachael.park-davies

You will be an experience FGC coordinator with accreditation and previous experience of arranging and completing family group conferencing.

You will also have:

• Demonstrable knowledge and understanding of Children Act 1989 and 2004, Fostering Regulations and National Minimum Standards; including awareness of current national policy, evidence based research and best practice that affects children’s social care.
• Experience of keeping and maintaining records and producing accurate reports, presentations, written updates to a range of stakeholders.
• Strong analytical, and planning skills for assessing, and reviewing both foster carers and children and young people’s needs, as well as investigating standards of care concerns.
• Demonstrated ability to explain professional reasoning, judgements, and decision making in a constructive and supportive manner through various communication methods.
• Experienced in the use of ICT, Liquid Logic, case record management systems, gmail, google share drive and google including applications as well as MS Word.
• Experience of addressing specific equality or diversity issues within your practice with colleagues/service users and taking action to solve them.