ID: 1392 Family Support Worker
Service: Cotswolds and Stroud Children and Family Centres, Gloucestershire
Salary: Grade 2 starting at Point 16 - £24,971
Location: Based at Lewis Lane Children and Family Centre, Cirencester, covering Cotswolds and Stroud as required.
Hours: Full time (37 hours). Part-time hours may also be available.
Contract: Permanent
Family Action & the Role’s Impact:
At Family Action, we support people through change, challenge, or crisis. It’s what we’ve done for over 150 years. We protect children, support young people and adults, and offer direct, practical help to families and communities.
We see first-hand the power of family to shape lives, for better or worse, so we speak up for the importance of family in national and local policymaking, amplify family voices, and represent the changing needs of families in the UK today.
The post holder will share and embrace the vision of ‘developing an innovative Gloucestershire Family Hub model which puts the well-being of all families, children, and young people at the heart of its work and leads to systemic and transformative change for individuals and the community’.
Main Responsibilities:
1. The Family Support Worker will work collaboratively with team members, attend multi-agency meetings, and actively participate in the development and delivery of home-based family support services.
2. You will provide support to children and families, including practical and emotional assistance delivered through a flexible program. This includes home visits, support groups, and structured learning sessions held in the Family Center, family homes, and community settings.
3. This role involves coordinating and ensuring the quality of home-based child and family support services, offering practical and emotional support through various methods such as home visits, workshops, and structured sessions.
Main Requirements:
1. To lead and support a safe, reliable, high-quality family support service across the district and integrate with existing provisions to ensure that services are not duplicated and multi-agency working is upheld. To ensure communication is established with other services to establish a culture of mutual trust and respect.
2. To undertake child-focused assessments with children and families in partnership with parents/carers and professionals to establish an understanding of the child and parent’s needs, any existing or potential risk, and to gain knowledge of the ‘Child’s lived experience’ and parental challenges.
3. Experience relevant for your effectiveness in the role might come from various sectors: health, education, social care, youth work. The list is not exclusive, and if you are passionate about supporting families, we would still like to hear from you.
What will we offer you?
We’ll offer you a generous pension scheme and leave entitlements, eye care vouchers, a cycle to work scheme, and other great benefits. All roles in Family Action are open to a discussion about possible flexible working options, subject to business needs, and all new starters will have the right to make a flexible working request from day one of employment. We have an excellent wellbeing offer, and we will invest in your professional development with ongoing quality training and career development opportunities. You’ll join an established, supportive, and high-performing service and have the opportunity to thrive in an innovative organisation that values your opinion, encourages learning, and has the needs of children and families at its core.
We are forward-looking, ambitious, and committed to continuous improvement. We are a people-focused, can-do organisation, which strives for excellence in all we do and operates with mutual respect.
For an application pack and further information please visit: Family Action Careers
Closing Date: 24th February 2025 – 12:00
Our commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion:
We are happy to consider any reasonable adjustments that candidates may need during the recruitment process, and you will be asked whether you require any adjustments if shortlisted for an interview. We also make reasonable adjustments on the job, where required.
We are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in all that we do and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Intersectionality is important to us, and we particularly welcome applications from ethnically diverse communities, LGBTQIA+ candidates, and disabled candidates because we are committed to increasing the representation of these groups at Family Action. We know that greater diversity will lead to even greater results for families and children and strive for our workforce to be truly representative of the diverse communities we support. We offer a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants and will reimburse your travel cost if you attend an in-person interview.
Appointments are subject to satisfactory Safer Recruitment checks, including a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check where appropriate to the role.
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