Family support worker
Posted Today by NonStop Consulting
£22 Per hour
Inside
Remote
Stroud, Gloucestershire (Remote)
Summary: The Family Support Worker role involves providing targeted support to families in Stroud and Cotswold districts, focusing on improving outcomes across various needs. The position requires a hands-on approach, managing a caseload of 12 families while contributing to the development of a Family Hub. Candidates must have relevant qualifications and experience in childcare or social care, along with a valid driver's license. This contract role offers flexible working arrangements and the potential for career progression.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage a caseload of 12 families, providing targeted early help.
- Support families in improving health, education, social, and environmental outcomes.
- Contribute to the development of a Family Hub approach.
- Deliver high-quality frontline support using a whole-family approach.
- Coordinate timely support for families in need.
Key Skills:
- Relevant qualification in childcare, early years, youth work, social care, or equivalent experience.
- Direct experience working with children, young people, and families.
- Experience in delivering group work or community-based activities.
- Knowledge of interventions for families and child protection legislation.
- Ability to work in multi-agency settings and contribute to assessments.
- Must be a driver with access to a car.
- Ideally possess a DBS on the update service.
Salary (Rate): £22 per hour
City: Stroud
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: Other
NonStop Consulting
Location: Stroud, Gloucestershire
Salary : 20 – 22 per hour
Benefits for the Family support worker :
- Flexible working, at least 1 day from home
- Autonomous role, organising your own schedule
- Charity with 150 years of experience working with children and young people
- Weekly fast payment
- Diverse, multi-cultural team of people, inclusive work environment
- Contract starting as 3 months with possibility of extension
- Career progression and development
- Opportunity to move to a permanent contract if all goes well
NonStop Care is working with one of the most reputable charities in Gloucestershire to help them find a Locum Family support worker full-time who can tackle working in a community family support worker role.
You will need working knowledge of interventions to families, driving change in your work with parents. You would also need knowledge of what thresholds are or the legislation that underpins how we make decisions about, and take action on, risk to children.
The role involves holding a caseload of 12 families, and contributing to the development of a Family Hub approach across Stroud and Cotswold districts.
Responsibilities of the Family support worker:
This role sits within the Family Hub Offer, working as part of a team delivering high-quality frontline support using a whole-family approach. You’ll be supporting families identified as needing targeted early help (universal level or Level 2), helping to improve outcomes across health, education, social and environmental needs.
It’s a really hands-on role, contributing to an integrated early help and public health offer, making sure families receive timely and coordinated support.
Requirements of the Family support worker:
Must be a driver and have access to own car
- A relevant qualification in childcare, early years, youth work, social care, family support, health, community work (or equivalent experience)
- Direct experience working with children, young people and/or families in community, home or education settings
- Experience delivering group work or community-based activities
- Experience supporting children’s development (communication, emotional, physical and social)
- Experience working in multi-agency settings and contributing to joint assessments or plans
- Ideally with a DBS on the update service (Adults & Children’s Barred List).
Please send your CV over to a.bohotineanu@nonstop-recruitment.com or you can also apply via this web-site.
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