Support & Assessment Worker - Family Safeguarding

Organisation:Leicestershire County Council

Work Location:Victoria & Albert Hub, Loughborough, LE11 2EN
and surrounding areas

Worker Category:Field Based Worker

Salary:£32,070 - £34,359 per annum (pro rata for part-time)

Working Hours:18.5 hours per week

Contract Type:Permanent

Closing Date:25th January 2026

Interview Date(s): 4th February 2026

This post will support social workers to undertake thorough community family assessments, and where appropriate complete these, of children and prepare any necessary and relevant reports, and undertake reviews (as relevant) and specific pieces of work identified within the assessment including;

• To undertake parenting support and assessment programme with families experiencing significant difficulties.
• To undertake direct work with children and young people to meet their identified need.
• To complete parenting assessments to assess the ability of carer's being able to meet the child's long-term needs, this could be where there are concerns regarding a child's welfare in their parents care or when we are in care proceedings needing to assess if the child could return to their parent's care.

An enhanced DBS check is required for this post.

For information on our approach to the recruitment of ex‑offenders, please see our policy statement.

To apply for this post, you must have / be able to:

A Level 3 childcare qualification (NNEB / NVQ3) or equivalent.

• Be able to promote parenting skills through group work and to contribute to a programme of group work with parents experiencing difficulty in managing their children.
• Advise, guide and train parents in managing household affairs, practical child care tasks, and other means of providing for the care of children. This may involve flexible work patterns including early mornings, early evenings and occasionally weekends.
• To make observations with regard to the standards of care, and participate fully in the identification of possible abuse/injury/neglect of children and provide reports on such observations to social workers.
• To supervise, observe and monitor contact visits when parents are visiting children who are looked after when appropriate to assessment.
• To attend Case Conferences, Core group, Pre‑Proceedings and other meetings as the worker involved with the family.
• To maintain accurate and up‑to‑date manual and electronic records as required by the department.

You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.

In addition, we expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the interview process.

Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.

We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term‑time working, part‑time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.

Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.

Dhara Shiva - Team Manager

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Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity, and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services, we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ Plus…