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 Central East team which includes North East Lincolnshire and Lincolnshire, and you will need to be able to travel and work predominantly across North East Lincolnshire.
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 as well as being part of our Flawsome project that supports mums and dads who are experiencing difficult times while their children are not in their care.
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.
Safe Families is a charity that offers hope, belonging and support to children, families and care leavers across the UK.
Working with more than 50 local authorities, Safe Families helps churches and community groups to be part of the solution to the increasing isolation felt by families and the high numbers of children going into care. This innovative approach has supported over 21,000 children from over 9,000 families in total and helped reduce the number of children going into care by between 9 and 16%.
Safe Families volunteers connect with people facing social isolation either as ‘family friends’, offering support when it’s needed, or ‘host families’, opening their homes to children for short stays to give parents a regular break. There is also the ‘resource friend’, who can provide useful items or skills to a family.
For more information visit: safefamilies.uk and @safefamiliesuk
