Family Group Decision Making Co-ordinator

Job Description

Help shape the next stage of Family Group Decision Making in Aberdeenshire.

Over the last three years, Aberdeenshire’s Family Group Decision Making Service has become established across Children’s Services. We are now expanding, creating an exciting opportunity for 3 new Co-ordinators to join the team.

This is an important step in making family-led decision making the first intervention for families wherever possible, with children’s rights at the heart of everything we do. FGDM gives children and families a personalised, strengths-based way to come together, talk about worries, build on what is working well and create their own family plan.

Why Join Us?

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a committed team at a key point in the service’s development. Your work will help children and families feel listened to, respected and supported to find their own solutions.

If you are passionate about children’s rights, relationship-based practice and empowering families to lead change in their own lives, then this is the job for you.

PLEASE NOTE – the office hub for the service is in Kintore. Your work with families will require travel throughout the whole of Aberdeenshire.

The role involves significant amounts of travel and lone working, both of which you will need to be comfortable with.

In addition, you may be required to visit families out with normal working hours if required.

Expected interview date is 23/07/2026

This is a fixed term position for a period not exceeding 01/09/2029

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Requirements

This post is regulated work with Children and/or Protected Adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check. Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check. A confirmed offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.

This post has a minimum requirement of two references, one of these must be your current or most recent employer.

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Responsibilities

As a Family Group Decision Making Co-ordinator, you will work alongside children, young people, parents, carers, extended family members and professionals to support families through the FGDM process. You will help families prepare for meetings, ensure children’s voices are listened to and respected, and support family networks to develop plans that are realistic, strengths based and focused on improving outcomes.

This role is ideal for someone who believes in the capacity of families to find their own solutions, can build trusting relationships, and is confident in facilitating sensitive conversations in a calm, inclusive and purposeful way.

 

The Individual

We Are Looking For People Who Can

• Put children’s rights, views and experiences at the centre of practice

• Work respectfully and creatively with families, recognising their strengths, relationships and lived experience

• Support family-led planning as an early and empowering response to worries or difficulties

• Build positive working relationships with professionals across Children’s Services and partner agencies

• Communicate clearly, listen well and support people to feel included and heard

• Contribute to the continued development of an established and expanding service