Family Support Worker

Job Title: Family Support Worker – Day

Section/Team: Family Residential Services

Rate: Up to £13.50 Dependent upon experience

Location: Essex – Harlow

Job Description:
Are you passionate about making a real difference to children and families?
If so, Liquid Personnel is seeking dedicated Parenting Support Workers to join our client’s Family Residential Home in Essex.

In this role, you’ll work directly with families facing complex challenges, helping parents develop practical skills and supporting children under 5 to reach their full potential. You’ll collaborate with social workers and other professionals to ensure children’s needs are met and families stay together. This is a hands‑on, rewarding role that requires flexibility, including some evenings and weekends, to provide responsive support when families need it most.

• Support parents to develop practical parenting and life skills
• Help families manage day-to-day challenges such as finances, school attendance, and family issues
• Work empathetically with complex families and young children
• Ensure children’s care needs are fully met and they thrive in education
• Collaborate with professionals to improve outcomes for families

• Educated to GCSE level
• Enhanced DBS check
• Commitment to ongoing professional development

• Level 3 qualification in early years, social care, or related fields
• Accredited training in evidence-based parenting programmes (e.g., Triple P, Webster Stratton)
• Qualifications in interventions such as CBT, Motivational Interviewing, or Multi-Systemic Therapy

• Make a real impact:
  Help families achieve lasting change
• Supportive team environment
• Opportunities for professional growth

If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity by contacting our team. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.

We are unable to support or accept applications from candidates who are residents within the Red or Amber list of the Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England, based on the World Health Organisation (WHO) Workforce Support and Safeguard List.

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