Teqniq is searching for a Family Court Adviser (Social Work Qualified) to work in the public sector.
37 hours per week.
12 week contract.
Job Description:
The Family Court Adviser role provides advanced social work support to children, families, and courts within family proceedings, ensuring the child's welfare and safeguarding remain central to all decision-making. The role involves assessing risk, analysing complex cases, advising courts on child protection and welfare concerns, and working directly with children and families to achieve positive outcomes. Applicants must hold a recognised Social Work qualification and have at least three years post-qualifying experience working with children and families. Strong assessment, communication, negotiation, case management, and IT skills are essential, alongside the ability to work effectively under pressure and manage sensitive, high-conflict situations professionally
WAFH (Work After First Hearing):
Involves work completed after the first hearing, including detailed assessments, direct work with children and families, report writing, and ongoing recommendations to support the court in achieving the best outcomes for the child.
Private Law:
Cases involving disputes between parents or carers regarding child arrangements, such as contact or residence. FCA's assess welfare concerns, provide safeguarding advice and support families to remain focused on the child's needs.
CFC (Child Focused Court Model):
A model designed to ensure court proceedings remain centred on the needs, voice and lived experiences of the child. FCA's work collaboratively with families, professionals, and the judiciary to reduce delay and achieve better outcomes for children through a more child centred approach.
Main Duties:
To provide high quality early safeguarding and child protection advice, assessments and analysis to the Court on the needs and best interests of children subject to or involved in Family Proceedings.
To ensure that the well-being and safety of the child is paramount throughout Cafcass' involvement in the case.
To ensure that all incidents or risks of significant harm to the child are dealt with in accordance with the relevant Local Safeguarding Children's Board (LSCB) procedures and Cafcass policies and procedures.
To directly work with, or on behalf of children & families to achieve safe and positive outcomes for children, referring to other services where this will produce benefit.
To produce high quality work with a rapid throughput, combining increasing productivity with quality of casework.
For all work produced to be rated good or outstanding in internal and external audits, with exceptions tolerated where the learning gained from these exceptions can be absorbed and applied to future work.
To be fully engaged with Cafcass policy that all cases must be allocated and to adopt a proportionate approach to work, assessing the needs of the case. In response to changing demands, the regulating mechanism will be the average time spent on cases, which is lower when demands are higher and vice versa.
To carry out an advanced social work level case analysis of the child's circumstances and to ensure this is updated if circumstances change, and for roles in Cafcass Intake to provide advice to local teams based on initial case analysis.
To provide advanced social work level advice and assist the Court to achieve a timely conclusion to proceedings and the best possible outcome for the child.
To administer and comply with orders made by the Family Court as required and conduct the necessary enquiries in accordance with relevant legislation and Court Rules.
To provide a clear child-focused plan of work in each case which is monitored and subject to ongoing review.
To ensure the appointment and instruction of legal representation for the child as required, and work in partnership with the relevant agencies for each case.
To keep up to date with changes in legislation, Court Rules, policies, national directives, procedures and best practice developments.
To participate in training and development programmes in line with the agreed individual personal development plans, taking responsibility for your continued professional development, learning and improvement through ever greater self-regulation supported by active and positive supervision in line with the Cafcass Supervision Policy.
To work in a child-inclusive way at all times, emphasising the voice of the child to the court and all parties to a case.
To work in partnership with other parties, agencies and significant others for the child, putting the needs of the child first in all discussions and negotiations.
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Pay: £24.64 per hour
Work Location: In person
