Family Help Team Leader (Gloucestershire)

<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif">This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.</span></span><br><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> </span></p>
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<li style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif">Job Title:                           Family Help Team Leader</span></span></li>
<li style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif">Job Location:                     Cheltenham and Stroud  </span></span></li>
<li style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif">Salary:                              £48,226 - £51,356 per annum subject to experience </span></span></li>
<li style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif">Hours per Week:                37.00 </span></span></li>
<li style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif">Contract Type:                   Permanent </span></span></li>
<li style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif">Closing Date:                    01/11/2026 </span></span></li>
<li style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif">Job Requisition Number:    14746 </span></span></li>
<li style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif">This post is open to job share</span></span></li>
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<p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;line-height:116%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"> </p>
<p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;line-height:116%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><strong><span style="color:black">Make a real difference to children and families</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;line-height:116%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"> </p>
<p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;line-height:116%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="color:black;font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Following significant growth and investment in Gloucestershire Children’s Services, we are creating the new position of Family Help Team Leader. In Gloucestershire we are passionate about ensuring we continue to build resilient, diverse multi-disciplinary teams as we implement the Department for Education's Families First Partnership Programme (FFPP) reforms.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;line-height:116%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="color:black;font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Our new Family Help teams work alongside our Intensive Intervention Teams and Early Intervention and Community Teams - which include Parenting Practitioners, Intensive Family Support Workers, Family Group Decision Making Practitioners, SEND support practitioners and multi-agency partners such as employment advisors, mental health practitioners, IDVAs and our local network of children’s centres and family hubs - to provide responsive, flexible, relational support to families in need of support.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height:115%;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><strong><span style="color:black">About the role</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="line-height:115%;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"> </p>
<p style="line-height:115%;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="color:black;font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Family Help Team Leaders will be part of a collaborative multidisciplinary leadership team working alongside a Family Help Team Leader (Social Work) reporting to a Family Help Team Manager. Together, you will lead a team working across Family Help (from targeted early help to court work) helping ensure families experience continuity of support from a trusted lead practitioner rather than unnecessary changes in workers as needs change. </span></p>
<p style="line-height:115%;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="color:black;font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">You will hold expertise and responsibility for ensuring excellent outcomes for children supported through Targeted Early Help and Child in Need. You will be the team’s link person for coordinating Family Help plans delivered by Family Help Leads in the local Family Hubs. </span></p>
<p style="line-height:115%;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="color:black;font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">You will supervise a team of Family Help Leads with backgrounds in a range of disciplines an