Senior Family Time Supervisor/Care Manager)

Adult Learning; England; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

A local authority in Norfolk is seeking a Senior Family Time Supervisor to oversee Family Time sessions and community assessments, ensuring children's safety and well-being. Candidates should have experience working with families and a track record of effective supervision. The role provides opportunities for flexible working and a comprehensive benefits package, including health services and pension contributions.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Generous holiday entitlement

Health and Wellbeing services

Flexible working opportunities

Financial benefits including employee discounts

Tax efficient car lease scheme

Qualifications

• Proven experience working with children and families.
• Strong understanding of risk assessment and management.
• Ability to supervise staff effectively.

Responsibilities

• Supervise Family Time between children and families.
• Conduct bespoke 8-week assessments with children.
• Align services to meet children and family needs.

Skills

Experience in family work

Innovative problem solving

Adherence to safety policies

Job description

Job Description

Senior Family Time Supervisor / Care Manager | 8884 | Permanent Contract | 37 hours per week | £31,537 to £33,699 per annum | Grade G | Great Yarmouth

Our Community Assessment and Family Time and Service delivers Family Time for Looked After Children and community assessments for families during both pre-proceedings and proceedings. Our aim is to enable more children to remain at home safely with their families, and where they are not able to remain at home, help build safer relationships, promote risk sensible practice and support reunification.

As a Senior Family Time Supervisor, you’ll be responsible, alongside the Centre Manager, for supervising and assessing Family Time between child(ren) and/or young people who are at risk of significant harm and promoting the service to focus on the child(ren)s security and promoting their well-being. You will also play a key role in delivering a Community Assessment service. This role will involve direct line management of staff, providing supervision and ensuring a high quality service is delivered at all times.

To work as part of the locality team alongside a range of other professionals including Social Workers, Health Visitors, CAMHS, Educational Psychologists, special educational needs services and education providers. To align services to meet the needs of children and their families.

Key Responsibilities:

• Encourage and develop innovative solutions in family work, both as a whole family and for individual family members using a Signs of Safety methodology that values and promotes family participation.
• Risk assessed and remotely supported lone working will be a feature of the role, managing adherence to NCC Lone working policies and guidance is essential in this role.
• Undertaking bespoke 8-week assessments, by working in parallel with the child’s assessing Social Worker.

Norfolk is the ideal place to perfect your work life balance, with stunning beaches, world-class cultural events, an affordable lifestyle, and the Broads National Park right on your doorstep.

If you’re experienced with working with children and their families and want to work together with us to shaping the future of Children’s Services in Norfolk, we want to hear from you.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Generous holiday entitlement
• Health and Wellbeing services including fast-track physiotherapy and a free counselling service
• Flexible working opportunities including flexi-time, part time, remote and hybrid working – dependant on your job role and business need.
• Financial benefits such as ‘Norfolk Rewards’ our employee discounts programme, a Blue Light card for Fire Service and Social Care Workers, Relocation expenses, an advance of your expenses if you travel for work, Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution, life assurance, death in service payments and dependants’ pensions.
• Access to our tax efficient car lease scheme for greener travel enabling you to lease a brand new, ultra-low emission vehicle (subject to eligibility)
• A payment if you refer someone you know to a hard to fill job

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community. We would like to make you aware that priority consideration for this post may be given to current employees who are at risk due to restructure within the organisation or are in a redeployment position.

Redeployment closing date: 06 October 2025 at 23:59, All other applicants closing date: 14 October 2025 at 23:55

About Us

We have miles of beautiful coastline and our unique Broads, thriving market towns and a city with a proud cultural heritage. Our economy is growing and driven by innovation in a number of sectors, including energy and food. We also have ambitious plans for new housing and a building programme for schools across Norfolk.

We are the main local authority for Norfolk providing services countywide to more than 850,000 Norfolk residents. We take the lead in critical policy areas, working with 84 elected Members responsible for the strategic local government services in the county.