Family Hub Manager
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Job summary
Oldham Council is seeking a Family Hub Manager to lead the West Oldham Best Start in Life Family Hub, ensuring early intervention services meet statutory duties and drive outcomes for children and families.
You will work with multidisciplinary teams, senior managers and partners to implement effective early childhood support across a defined area, with a focus on quality and impact.
Qualifications
- Degree and/or equivalent recognised professional qualification in social work, health, education or equivalent.
- Evidence of continuing learning and professional development.
- Substantial experience of direct work with children, families or parents/communities, including vulnerable groups.
- Experience of managing and supervising performance of employees.
- Experience of working with senior managers, partners and service users to achieve service improvement.
- Experience of service planning and improvement, allocating resources effectively.
- Knowledge of national and local legislation related to 0-19 services.
Responsibilities
- Lead local implementation of the Best Start In Life Family Hub offer and early family support.
- Ensure services meet statutory duties and performance indicators set out in the Family Hub Framework.
- Work with Public Health Nursing Team Leaders to coordinate Family Hub work.
- Oversee specialists areas within Integrated Child & Family Service (e.g. SEND, early education, engagement, digital offer).
Skills
Education
Job description
Working as part of Oldham’s Integrated Child & Family Service the post holder will work within a multi-disciplinary integrated service, to develop the early intervention and prevention model for West Oldham Best Start in Life Family Hub.
The post holder will lead and be responsible for the local implementation of the Best Start In Life Family Hub offer and early family support within a geographical area of Oldham, ensuring that the local authority’s duty to deliver early childhood services are met.
To be part of the senior management team leading the Integrated Children and Families Service ensuring that services they deliver are consistent, of good quality have identifiable outcomes ensuring statutory duties and performance indicators set out in the BSiL Family Hub Framework and the Integrated Children and Families Service performance framework.
To work closely with the Public Health Nursing Team Leaders to jointly lead, plan, coordinate, deploy and oversee the work of the Child and Family Workers and the Business Support roles.
To lead and be accountable for a specialist area for the Integrated Child & Family Service and Family Hub offer e.g. SEND, early education & learning, participation and engagement, communication and the digital offer, family support, evaluation and quality improvement. This will include maintaining up to date with legislative requirements within the specialist areas and implementing services changes to ensure legislative requirements are met.
- Degree and/or equivalent recognised professional qualification in social work, health, education or equivalent, and evidence of a commitment to continuing learning and professional development
- Substantial experience of direct work with children, families or parents/communities, in homes and/or community settings, including vulnerable families or groups.
- Demonstrable experience of managing and supervising the performance of employees providing effective leadership, motivational and management support
- Experience of working with senior managers, partners and service users in order to achieve service improvement
- Experience of service planning and improvement, including evaluating and revising plans and strategies to ensure resources are targeted to maximise benefits for users of the service.
- Experience of developing a service to meet the diverse needs of the community
- Ability to understand and translate into practice legislation and statutory guidance
- Extensive knowledge of relevant national and local legislation, policy and guidance in BSiL Family Hubs and government initiatives pertaining to 0-19 services
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, and 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
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.
- Work with a resident focus
- Support local leaders
- Committed to the borough
- Delivery high performance
- Take ownership and drive change
You can find out more about our values and behaviours on our greater.jobs Oldham page
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
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.
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.
If you have lived or worked abroad for 3 months or more in the last 5 years or 12 months or more (whether continuously or in total) in the last 10 years whilst aged 18 or over, please refer to the link below for details for how to obtain your Certificates of Good Character. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants
Unfortunately, at this time we are not able to offer sponsorship.
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