Family Time Support Worker

Key Information

• Permanent position for 30 hours per week.
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays. Increasing to 28 days after 5 years’ continual service, pro rata.
• Somerset Council encourages career progression and this is an excellent role for career development.
• Due to the nature of the role hybrid working is not available.

We’re working to improve the lives of children here in Somerset – and you’ll be a key part of that. Your day-to-day work will involve:

• Supervise face to face and/or virtual family time between children and their relatives.
• Participate in the assessment of the quality of family members family time with children and provide advice, support and assistance to relatives to allow them to safely care for children during family time sessions.
• Record, within appropriate and agreed time scales and using departmental forms and/or IT systems, the details and nature of children's family time with their relatives.

We offer ongoing support, training and guidance to help you be the best you can be. But it will really help if you:

• Have some experience in a caring or supporting role.
• Have ability to undertake direct work with children and their families to improve parenting skills and relationships.
• Are literate and numerate to GCSE level or equivalent.
• Can demonstrate a commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.
• The ability to travel to different locations across the county and occasionally beyond.

And that means everyone in Somerset. An important part of this is ensuring that we are as diverse and inclusive as the people and communities we serve.

We welcome applications from a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences to enrich our team. You can always contact the hiring manager for a chat if there’s anything you want to talk about before you apply.

We are proud to offer an environment that is supportive and rewarding, working as part of a team who are passionate about the work they do to improve the lives of people in Somerset.

We offer great training and development opportunities, with supportive management. As well as this, we have some fantastic employee benefits available:

• We promote a healthy work-life balance and offer flexible working arrangements wherever possible, including working from home.
• Generous annual leave allowance, with the opportunity to purchase additional leave.
• Staff discounts in gyms.
• Employee Assistance for the times you may need some support and a variety of employee wellbeing services.
• Auto enrolment onto our generous Pension Scheme and optional pension enhancement through our Additional Voluntary Contribution scheme.
• A Flexible Benefits Scheme via salary sacrifice to obtain a cycle for work and health screenings.
• My Staff Shop offering discounts in shops, online shopping, restaurants, cinema tickets, insurance benefits and more.

The salary range for this role is £21,072 to £22,817 per annum.

Hayley Reed, ,

This post requires a criminal background check via the Disclosure procedure.