Family Support Worker

**Family support worker**:

- Date: 28 Jul 2025
- Job Location: Gloucester

This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.
- Job Title: Family support worker
- Job Location: Gloucester
- Salary: £32,115 - £35,235 per annum
- Hours per Week: 37
- Contract Type: Permanent and FTC
- Closing Date: 10/08/2025
- Job Requisition Number: 11509
- This post is not open to job share

Join our dedicated team in Family Together and make a real difference in the lives of children and families across Gloucestershire.
- We are currently recruiting for two permanent Family Support Workers and one on a Fixed term contract.

**About us**

For all your hard work, you will receive the following:

- flexible and agile working opportunities
- 25.5 days annual leave pro rata
- family friendly policies and benefits to help support you and your family
- supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision
- Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
- access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone.
- an in-house Occupational Health service
- employee discount scheme
- cycle to work scheme
- links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) and the Young Employees Network
- career development and qualification opportunities

**Right child, right support, right time, every time**

We are working together to support families and communities to give every child the best chance of a happy and rewarding life, especially those who need more help. Gloucestershire offers a range of opportunities to develop your career, supported by a phenomenal Social Work Academy offer, a developing systemic practice methodology, an ambitious leadership team and an award-winning workforce.

Gloucestershire Children’s Services are improving. Our latest Ofsted inspection (February 2022) identified that:

- ‘Significant progress has been made in many areas of Gloucestershire’s children’s servicessignificant financial investment and the backing of political leaders, has led to improved services that are now more effective in meeting the needs of children and families’._

We are a local authority adopting, and training all colleagues in, systemic social work practice. If you would like to be part of an authority that takes a relational approach to working with families and focuses on what needs to change in the system around a child and family to enable children to thrive, then consider a role with GCC.

**About the role**
- Working as a Family Support Worker is an exciting, interesting, and rewarding role. Your aim will be to deliver targeted support to vulnerable children and their families to achieve better outcomes, reducing the need for higher level support and long-term demand for services.
- You will undertake assessments and co-ordinate and deliver interventions using a solution focussed approach. By building supportive and empowering relationships with families, you will engage parents through creative and innovative strategies, in line with partner agencies and organisations.
- You will benefit from our commitment to delivering the best possible service to children and families, and the chance to join an experienced and dynamic team. You will be joining an authority with a strong set of values that underpins the work we do

**About you**
- We are looking for individuals with experience in working with children, young people, families, and communities.
- Experience with multi-agency assessments and plans is essential.

A full driving licence and access to a car are required, as the role may involve working evenings and weekends.

**Additional Information**

To access the Job Profile for this role, please follow the link below:

- Family Support Worker

Gloucestershire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people or vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We want to be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining excellent people to work for us, so that we can best serve all of Gloucestershire’s diverse communities. Our promise to you is that we will provide an inclusive and supportive working environment that enables you to bring your whole self to work and realise your full potential.

It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a ‘customer facing role’ must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.

Hybrid working arrangements are available for the majority of our roles, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of both remote and office working.