FGC & Family Network Team Manager

TN United Kingdom; Bolton; On-site; GBP 48,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading organization in Bolton as a Team Manager within the Family Help Service. This role involves leading the Family Group Conference approach, ensuring culturally sensitive solutions for families, and managing a high-performing team. The position offers competitive salary, flexible working options, and a commitment to employee wellbeing.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Generous annual leave allowance

Employee wellbeing services

Pension Scheme

Qualifications

• Experience working with Children and Families.
• In-depth understanding of Family Group Decision Making.
• Experience managing high performing teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and implementation of the Family Group Conference approach.
• Manage case oversight and facilitate Family Group Conference processes.
• Develop and deliver Parenting and Group Work support.

Skills

Leadership

Restorative approaches

Team management

Communication

Job description

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21.05.2025

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05.07.2025

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Job Description:

Grade K £48,710 - £52,805 per annum, pay award pending. Plus, essential car user allowance and a 7% enhancement for evening and weekend working.

Contract: Permanent, Full time.

Ask us about flexible working options to fit with your work/life balance - #HappytoTalkFlexible

The Role

This is an exciting opportunity to become a Team Manager within our newly established Family Help Service, to lead on the development and implementation of the Family Group Conference approach. The role will be pivotal in ensuring the principles of FGC are embedded to enable families to find culturally sensitive solutions to their own problems within a professionally supportive framework.

The post holder will be responsible for the management, agreement, case oversight and more generally the mediation and facilitation of the Family Group Conference process and wider Family Network approach. This will include responsibility for ensuring meetings are organised and managed in the best interests of Children.

The role also includes leading on the development and delivery of a robust Parenting and Group Work support offer as part of the Family Help and Family Hub service offer, ensuring oversight of activity and responsivity to emerging needs within communities.

We are open to flexible working and have a range of options; we and are happy to discuss this further.

For an informal discussion, please contact Nicola Murphy, Strategic Lead- Prevention on 07384 914814 or email [emailprotected]

About You

You will be a passionate and experienced manager with an understanding and experience of working with Children and Families, and an in-depth understanding of Family Group Decision Making approaches. You will have a good understanding of Family Help developments, Family Group Conference and Family Network approaches.

You will have experience of managing high performing teams, utilising a restorative approach to leadership and leading by example. You will have experience of working with Children’s Services and partners, supporting culture, practice and integrated working.

You will be an approachable and confident leader, who embraces creativity and approaches change with a ‘can do’ attitude to overcome challenges.

If you think you could be what we're looking for, apply now with your CV and covering letter.

Within your covering letter with specific reference to the job description and person specification please demonstrate:

• Your understanding of restorative approaches and how these apply to family led, solution focussed interventions (include your experience of the Family Group Conference model and its application in practice)
• How you approach working with partner agencies, to ensure effective working relationships

Your experience of managing teams with complex case work with children, young people and families?

About Us

This is your opportunity to join us at an exciting time as we have strong ambitions for the borough.

Bolton is a great place to work. We are a welcoming organisation that wants to contribute to a place where people feel active, connected and prosperous. We are passionate about improving the outcomes and experience of Bolton people. We want Bolton to be a vibrant place built on strong cohesive communities, successful businesses and healthy, engaged residents.

As an employer we want to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment, by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits, including discounts and exclusive gym membership prices and salary sacrifice schemes. In addition, we offer a generous annual leave allowance, flexible work opportunities, access to a Pension Scheme, as well as a range of employee wellbeing and support services.

Our Values are really important to us, read all about them below, along with all our great staff benefits, the job description/person specification for the role and the important legal bits, and our Top Tips too.

Ready to apply? Then please click Apply and upload your anonymised CV and supporting statement discussing your relevant skills and experience and explain how you believe they make you a strong fit for this role.

Within Greater Manchester, local authorities have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers, carers, and ex-military personnel. Please see greater.jobs for further information before you apply.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An Enhanced DBS with check of relevant barred list is therefore required for this post.

This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English as per the person specification.

This organisation has signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. That means we will recognise your continuous or ‘unbroken’ service in any Greater Manchester local authority or NHS organisation that has signed the comitment, Transport for Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service or Greater Manchester Combined Authority, giving you access to our service-related benefits. Please see the home page of greater.jobs for more information.

For more information about working for Bolton Council, please see greater.jobs; for advice and support with your application, contact [emailprotected]