Bexley is an outer London Borough with the best of both worlds, located between the hustle and bustle of London and the Garden of England, Kent. Within the borough we have award winning parks, open spaces and listed heritage sites.

Erith family time centre delivers bespoke family time for our looked after children and their families. Family time sessions support the maintenance of positive relationships between a child and their non- resident family members wherever possible. Parents supported practically and emotionally to make supervised Family time sessions a positive experience wherever possible.

Responsible for: 
To supervise family time between looked after children and their parents. This will include families where care proceedings are ongoing and staff will need to be sensitive to these issues, offering appropriate support to children and their parents.  
Reports to be made of the observations and social work staff to be contacted as required. 
To record information in a professional manner. 
To attend supervisory meetings, team meetings and training as required. 
To carry out duties within the Centre in accordance with health and safety regulations. 
To liaise with other professionals and report any concerns or safeguarding issues that arise when carrying out these duties. 
 
Please refer to the Job Description attached for more information. 

Job Activities: 
Greet parents, children and their carers and create a positive environment which will support the contact between parents and their children ensuring good information is available for the family. To talk to parents about the contact service and agreement forms to be signed. 

To obtain feedback from service users to ensure continued development and improvement of the service. 
 

For an informal discussion about the role please contact: Estelle Smith, Family time team leader, Estelle.smith@bexley.gov.uk; 020 3045 4073.  

We will offer you in return a package that includes a competitive salary, an excellent pension scheme and generous annual leave plus bank holidays. For more information on the benefits package on offer please refer to the Candidate Information document attached. 
We reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date. 

Educated to a good standard in the English language verbal and written.  
Relevant qualification eg childcare/health and social care. 
 
For the full list of essential and desirable criteria for this role then please refer to the Person Specification within the Job Description attached. 

Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)  

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Anticipated Interview Date: TBC.  

Please note that the system has a one-hour time limit. We would advise you to prepare your answers separately and then copy and paste into the online form once finalised and have your CV and/or Supporting statement ready to upload. 

If any mandatory fields are missing, a pop-up box will appear at the top of the page advising which sections require completion. Please check your Junk email for any correspondence. 

Additional Information 

As a disability confident employer Bexley welcomes applications from people with all disabilities, including hidden disabilities and mental health conditions. We will interview any disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria. If you require reasonable adjustments to be made to any part of the recruitment process due to your disability, please contact us on  recruitment@bexley.gov.uk  

This authority is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. 

This post is considered by the authority to be a customer-facing position; as such it falls within scope of the Code of Practice on English language requirement for public sector workers. The council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English sufficient for the effective performance of the job requi