FGDM Facilitator | Child-Centered Safeguarding

Central Bedfordshire Council; Caulcott; Hybrid; GBP 34,000 - 46,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid role options

Four-month probationary period

Professional development support

Office locations access

Job summary

Central Bedfordshire Council is seeking an experienced FGDM Facilitator to join the Multi-Agency Child Protection Team. You will coordinate and facilitate Family Group Conferences and other family meetings, ensuring children's voices are central while working with social workers and safeguarding partners.

You will support families to identify strengths, resources and realistic plans, manage complex conversations with sensitivity, and promote restorative, child-centred practice within a

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge and understanding of child protection processes, safeguarding and statutory social work intervention.
• Experience of working with children, young people and families facing complex circumstances.
• Experience of working effectively within a multi-agency safeguarding environment.
• Excellent communication, engagement, facilitation, negotiation and mediation skills.
• The ability to manage conflict, challenge appropriately and facilitate difficult or highly sensitive conversations.
• Strong organisational and planning skills.
• The confidence to work independently while maintaining effective professional partnerships.
• A genuine commitment to restorative, strengths-based and child-centred practice.

Responsibilities

• Coordinating and facilitating high-quality Family Group Conferences, Family Network Meetings and other family meetings.
• Engaging children, young people and wider family networks so their voices genuinely influence planning and decision-making.
• Working collaboratively with the MACPT, social workers and wider safeguarding partners.
• Preparing families and professionals for meetings and building confidence in the FGDM process.
• Supporting families to identify their strengths, resources and wider networks of support.
• Facilitating difficult conversations and managing conflict with confidence, sensitivity and impartiality.
• Supporting families to develop their own safe, realistic and achievable plans for their children.
• Championing restorative, strengths-based, relational and child-centred practice.
• At FAMs, we believe families are experts in their own lives and that lasting change is more likely when children and families are genuinely involved in creating the solutions.

Skills

Child protection knowledge

Multi-agency working

Communication skills

Mediation skills

Conflict management

Organisational skills

Independence

Restorative practice

Job description

Central Bedfordshire Council is seeking an experienced FGDM Facilitator to join the Multi-Agency Child Protection Team. You will coordinate and facilitate Family Group Conferences and other family meetings, ensuring children's voices are central while working with social workers and safeguarding partners.

You will support families to identify strengths, resources and realistic plans, manage complex conversations with sensitivity, and promote restorative, child-centred practice within a