Family Support Worker

Family Support Worker

Service:
Stroud and Cotswolds Children and Family Centre

Salary: £33,143 FTE per annum (pro-rata for part-time hours)

Hours:

Option of full-time (37 hours per week) or part time hours – we offer flexible working arrangements, please see below for more details.

Location:

Based either at one of our Family Hubs across Stroud and Cotswolds or working remotely across North Cotswolds.

We encourage a flexible approach (that includes working from home when this is optimal for your role) to enable you to work at your best and focus the majority of your time on families.

Red Lodge Children and Family Centre, Stonehouse, Stroud, GL10

Treetops Children and Family Centre, Dursley, Stroud, GL11

The Lodge, 47 Lewis Lane, Cirencester, Cotswolds, GL7

North Cotswolds – Remote with outreach across North Cotswolds

Contract:

Permanent

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 policy making, amplify family voices and represent the changing needs of families in the UK today.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the team and be part of the development of Family Hubs in Stroud and Cotswolds, being part of a team that supports children and families through universal provision and targeted family support.

You will deliver targeted early help to families with children under 12, holding a caseload of approximately 12 families. You will also contribute to the development of a Family Hub approach across Stroud and Cotswolds by introducing children and families to a range of community settings and activities.

To be a lead on a specialised/thematic area within the service supporting children, young people and families.

The role involves weekly visits to family homes and other settings, acting as Lead Professional, completing early help assessments, and developing SMART plans, coordinating multi‑agency Team Around the Family (TAF) meetings, implementing evidence‑based interventions and programmes to improve outcomes for children and families.

• Direct Work:
  Deliver interventions to improve parenting, child development, and family functioning using evidence‑based programmes and interventions. Apply child‑focused, relational, and strengths‑based approaches.
• Assessment and analysis:
  Undertake comprehensive assessments of need applying a range of underpinning social theory, including attachment, social learning theory, social ecology and child development. Working in partnership with other involved agencies, to establish a shared understanding of the child and family’s needs, any existing or potential risk and incorporating the child’s voice.
• Compile comprehensive plans, keeping children at the centre at all times, whilst incorporating whole‑family thinking to drive improved outcomes for children through family stability, parenting and positive relationships. Ensure plans are continually reviewed for their effectiveness and revised when needed.
• Multi‑Agency Coordination:
  Lead TAF meetings and ensure integrated support from health, education, and social care partners. Attend multi‑agency meetings as required and collaboratively with health, social care, community, education, police and other agencies as required.

• Experience of working directly with children and their families; delivering evidence‑based interventions and parenting programmes.
• Knowledge and understanding of integrated working practices and a wide range of universal, targeted and statutory agencies working with children and families.
• Excellent assessment skills, with the ability to produce effective outcome focused plans for children and families with complex needs. Ability to measure and evidence outcomes, including through the use of observation, triangulation of evidence, outcome measurement tools and continuous assessment.
• Appointments are subject to Family Action receiving…