Team Around the Family Consultant

About the role:Lincolnshire County Council is recruiting a full time permanent Team Around the Family Consultant to offer an advice, guidance, coaching, mentoring and support service to our partner agencies. Post will be based in the North/South Kesteven locality.,

• Offer 1:1 case support, reflection, advice and guidance to the partnership for children open to TAF
• Write and deliver workshops
• Contact professionals to offer support following a safeguarding referral
• Offer support for professionals for step-outs following Family Help/Social Care involvement
• Analyse data and create action plans for improvements
• Offer duty support to partner agencies via our ASKTAF service
The postholder will be working with sensitive issues and involved in analysing risk within Early Help cases; and will therefore be subject to enhanced DBS and Barred list check., To ensure the implementation of Lincolnshires Early Help Strategy through effective use of the Team Around the Child process. To raise awareness and knowledge across agencies, managers, professionals, communities, families and children/young people regarding Team Around the Family and Early Help. To embed Signs of Safety methodology across Early Help in Lincolnshire. To quality assure, multi-agency Early Help activity, and hold professionals and agencies to account. To provide case advice and guidance and reflective practice opportunities to Lead Professionals from Education settings in group and individual formats. To provide professional support and challenge regarding the TAF Process to all services within Lincolnshire's Early Help Offer. To produce reports as directed. To design and deliver training sessions around Early Help issues. To contribute to the development of guidance, policies and procedures for Early Help. To drive continuous improvement across all agencies, particularly with regard to co-ordination and effectiveness of multi-agency safeguarding.

About you:You'll have extensive experience of writing Early Help Assessments and Plans and being a Lead Professional in a children's multi-agency environment. You'll have skills in mediating, mentoring, influencing and coaching. Be proactive and child focussed, understand Working Together 2026 statutory guidance and Lincolnshire's TAF framework.

Lincolnshire County Council, is one of the largest employers in the county. We are an organisation that embraces diversity, innovation and progress. We value our people and want to ensure that we can support you in joining and growing with us. We will view you as an integral member of our community and recognise that your well-being is paramount. To show our appreciation, weve crafted a competitive package designed to not only acknowledge your hard work but also foster a healthy work-life balance. From health benefits and retirement plans, we strive to provide a package that supports well-being and financial stability and that meets the diverse needs of our workforce. We want everyone who works with us to feel included and celebrate their uniqueness. We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity, eliminating unlawful discrimination, harassment and victimisation, and promoting good relations for both employee and for the people of Lincolnshire. People often say every day is a learning day and at LCC a culture of learning is something we really believe in. We recognise the importance of supporting your learning and development and can offer a variety of different learning opportunities depending on what is right for you and the organisation. This could be through your everyday tasks, through hands-on experience, structured programs, formal qualifications, coaching, or informal learning opportunities.