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We are looking for a Family Support Manager to work in our team in Edinburgh.

At Safe Families we exist to create relationship and connection, offering support, hope and belonging to improve the lives of those in our communities because everyone deserves to belong.

Safe Families is passionate about supporting families. We believe everyone deserves to belong and Safe Families offers compassion and connection through our incredible staff and volunteers. Many families have been struggling with mental health, particularly during the last few months of lockdown. Safe Families are expanding their work in Edinburgh to provide intensive support to around 30 families each year who are struggling with issues including anxiety and depression.

We are looking for an experienced mental health practitioner who can make a positive impact in the lives of these families over an initial two year period. You will be involved in helping to train and support volunteers who will be given specialist mental health training.

Good quality records are vital in showing individual progress against care plans and personal goals; building a meaningful description of important events in a child’s life; and ultimately providing them with a link to their past whenever they want to find out more about their childhood.

Following rigorous consultation, development and training Aberlour has been using Microsoft Dynamics as our case management system for the last couple of years. Ongoing analysis has identified a need to develop further awareness of quality recording and ensure consistent best practice across the organisation. We are looking for someone to lead a 9-month project to focus on these areas and help the organisation ensure that current and future staff can feel confident in this key area of responsibility within their role as a social care worker.

You will use your extensive experience of recording and producing reports related to assessments and care planning to work alongside Assistant Directors, Service Managers and our Dynamics Champions to embed recording best practice across our services enabling meaningful reports to be generated at individual, service and organisational level.

You will also take responsibility for supporting the training of new services just starting to use Dynamics.

The post is offered full time (although part time hours may be considered), fixed term for 9 months. Internal secondment requests will be considered, please speak to your line manager if you are interested in such an opportunity.

Are you passionate about supporting vulnerable children with complex disabilities to be all they can be?

Are you ready to take a step into a management role?

Do you have knowledge and experience that can enable you to support development of our team?

If so, this could be the perfect role for you.

Options Moray has a strong reputation for delivering effective person-centred long term, shared care and short break services to children and young people with complex physical and learning disabilities. Our team provides a nurturing, safe, stimulating and trusted environment for the children we support, giving their families peace of mind while their child is in our care.

What are we looking for?

We are looking to recruit an Assistant Service Manager who will work as part of the management team to support delivery of excellent services and contribute to the continuing development of the service.

Our service is registered for up to 7 young people to stay per 24 hours. With 2 single occupancy flats on site and 5 available bedrooms, for short breaks, most of our stays are on a planned basis. We also work with families to build person-centred Care at Home packages.

We take pride in delivering high quality services going above and beyond basic compliance. You will assist the Service Manager in making sure that quality measures are put in place and that organisational and external requirements are met, including from local authorities, the Care Inspectorate and also Health and Safety legislation.

You will play a key role in modelling excellent practice and supporting the team to develop and deliver best practice, providing advice and professional supervision to members of the team as required.

This is a challenging and stimulating role where the ability to build positive communication relationships and support staff to do so is crucial. We are therefore looking to recruit someone who can demonstrate knowledge and understanding of Aberlour’s values of Respect, acting in a way that shows we care about one another’s feelings; Integrity, doing the right thing even when no-one else is watching; Innovative, finding new, efficient ways of doing things; and Challenging, questioning ourselves and others rather than simply accepting the status quo.

There is an expectation that you will work 20% of your weekly hours offering direct support to the children and young people as part of our residential rota, this can include evenings, weekends and public holidays. There is also the requirement to undertake the occasional sleep over.

If you are ready to take on this exciting and rewarding role, we look forward to hearing from you.

If you would like further information on the Service we provide please do not hesitate to contact Sheena Main, Service Manager on 07815832395

A relevant qualification at SCQF level 9 (e.g. SVQ Social Services (Children and Young People) or above is essential together with a practice qualification in the management category and the successful candidate will also be able to demonstrate significant experience of working with young people in a residential setting.

This post requires you to be registered with the Scottish Social Services Council and undergo PVG checks prior to taking up the role.