Family Group Decision Making Team Manager

inploi; Oldham; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

A local government organization is seeking a Family Group Decision Making Team Manager to lead a specialist team in Oldham. This role requires experience in working with families facing complex social challenges and managing team performance to support children and families effectively. The position offers a salary range of £42,839 to £47,181 per annum, with excellent benefits including a generous leave policy and pension scheme.

Benefits

25 days annual leave

Pension scheme

Discounted gym membership

Wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Experience facilitating Family Group Decision Making with complex needs.
• Extensive background in services for families facing challenges.
• Proven ability to lead and motivate teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Family Group Decision Making Team.
• Manage team performance and quality of practice.
• Develop guidance and deliver training on family engagement.

Skills

Experience with Family Group Decision Making

Working with complex families

Team management

Job description

Overview

Children and Young People
Early Help
Family Group Decision Making Team Manager

Ref: 001015

Contract: Permanent

Salary: £42,839 £47,181 per annum (Grade 8)

Hours: 36.66 per week

Based: Spindles Centre

Closing Date: Wednesday 1 October 2025

Shortlisting & Interview Dates: TBC

Role overview

Working within Oldham Council’s Early Help service, you will lead the Family Group Decision Making Team and play a key role in embedding the engagement of family networks in plans for children and families as part of everyday practice within Children’s Services. This is one of the key strands within the national Families First Partnership Programme, as part of the wider development of the multi-agency family help offer.

Key responsibilities

• To lead and manage the specialist Family Group Decision Making Team as part of the wider family help offer within Oldham, including responsibility for the allocation of cases, and management of staff and performance.
• To manage team performance and oversee quality of practice, developing a strong performance and improvement culture including use of practice reviews and feedback from service users and partners.
• To lead in developing practice and guidance around family group decision making, and deliver training across children’s social care and early help in order to embed a culture in which practitioners effectively engage family networks in plans to support better outcomes for children and families, in particular enabling children to remain safely within their families.

Key requirements

To succeed in this role, you will need as a minimum:

• Experience of working with, or facilitating, Family Group Decision Making with families and children and young people with complex health and social care needs, including alongside social work at the levels of Child in Need and Child Protection
• Extensive experience of working within a service delivering support to families who have complex lives which may include; mental health, offending, substance misuse, domestic abuse and may be resistant to service involvement
• Substantial experience of leading, motivating and managing teams, including the establishment of a positive performance culture

The post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure from the DBS

If you have completed the GM Elevate (Leadership Development) Programme, please indicate this within the ‘About You’ or ‘Supporting Statement’ section of your application.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and therefore expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

About us

We want Oldham to have vibrant, safe neighbourhoods where people are proud to live with opportunities for healthier, more fulfilled lives; and a sustainable, thriving economy. As we look to the future, the challenges may be significant, but so are the opportunities. We’ve identified three missions with our residents and partners, focusing on what will deliver the biggest impact:

• A Great Place to Live
• Healthier, Happier Lives
• Green and Growing

We’re looking for candidates who will support us to achieve our ambitions and we encourage you to download our Corporate Plan: Ready for the Future and our Oldham Plan for further information.

Our values and behaviours

By driving innovation, investing in our people, and championing our communities, we will ensure that Oldham continues to be a place where everyone can live their best life. To support this, we have three core values which define who we are and how we operate. These are ‘Proud, Ambitious, and Together’, and they shape our culture, inform our decisions, and inspire us to deliver on our commitments to the people of Oldham.

We have translated these values into five behaviours which guide our actions and are the standards we hold ourselves to, day in and day out:

• Work with a resident focus
• Support local leaders
• Committed to the borough
• Deliver high performance
• Take ownership and drive change

You can find out more about our values and behaviours on our greater.jobs Oldham page

Benefits

At Oldham Council we offer a great benefits package for our employees, which includes the following:

• 25 days annual leave which increases after 5 and 10-years’ service
• The option to purchase additional annual leave
• An attractive LGPS benefit pension scheme with the option to make shared cost additional voluntary contributions
• Discounted gym membership with Oldham Active
• Staff discount scheme for shopping, entertainment, eating-out, eating-in, travel, motoring and more
• Salary sacrifice scheme for home and electronics and Cycle to Work
• Wellbeing support, including a Mental Health First Aider network and an Employment Assistance Programme that provides 24 hours access to advice and support
• Staff recognition and celebration events
• Peer support groups

Inclusive recruitment

We work closely with employees to help them work at their best, including making adjustments such as flexible working, describing available working patterns, providing equipment or making changes to the workplace.

If you’re an applicant with disabilities and have previously been in or currently in care, a carer or someone who has served in the Armed Forces and you meet the essential criteria of the role, you are guaranteed to reach the first stage of assessment under our Guaranteed Assessment Scheme.

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Important information

Please note that should a vacancy that has been released for internal or external recruitment be deemed suitable for a current employee at risk of redundancy, it can be pulled back at any point, up to the post being formally offered to a candidate who is not at risk of redundancy.

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