Family Support Workers

Job Overview

Family Support Worker Full Time Post - Job Reference: P1944

Location: Birmingham

Closing Date: 18 August 2026

Hours Per Week: 37.5

Employment Type: Fixed term

Fixed Term Contract to 31/08/2027

SCP
27 to 30

£30,572.55 per annum to £33,892.01 per annum

37.5 Hours per week (5 days)

The starting salary scale for this post is SCP 27 paid at £30,572.55 per annum, pro rata.

Oratory Catholic Primary School

Oliver Road, Ladywood, Birmingham, B16 9ER

Monday & Tuesday, 15 hours

SS Mary & John Catholic Primary School

Gravely Hill North, Erdington, Birmingham, B23 6BQ

Wednesday & Thursday, 15 hours

SS Peter & Paul Catholic Primary School

Kingsbury Road, Erdington, Birmingham, B24 9ND

Friday, 7.5 hours

Hold a full driving licence and have access to a car.

Experience as a Family Support Worker with knowledge and skills to undertake direct work with vulnerable primary and secondary aged children and their families.

Ability to work full-year, including school holidays.

• Enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure & Barring Service funded by the Society.
• Supported and bespoke full induction programme
• Opportunity for overtime
• Enhanced Society Sick Pay and Statutory Sick Pay upon qualifying period
• Enhanced Annual Leave entitlements
• Free Parking
• Group Company Pension Scheme upon qualifying period
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme offering confidential support on personal and professional matters
• Refer a friend scheme
• Employee suggestion scheme accessible via intranet
• Online Payslips
• Long Service Awards

We are a bespoke service, offering a diverse range of support packages to the most vulnerable children and their families in local schools. We work across the midlands, Newcastle under Lyme and Oxfordshire, providing 1:1 support in around 18 primary schools/High schools.

As a Family Support worker, you will be working directly with the individual children, their parents/carers, and working collaboratively with key staff in school to deliver a package of tailored interventions to strengthen and improve their outcomes, to build their resilience and help them to be the very best they can be.

Father Hudson’s Caritas is a committed employer that proactively pursues our ambitions for equality, diversity and inclusion in all that we do, building on our core values.

Please send completed applications to recrui

Previous applications need not apply.

This post is exempted from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

Closing date:
Tuesday 18th August 2026, we do reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.

Interviews TBC are to be held at our head office in Coleshill.

If you would like to discuss our services to schools, or the role and/or your experience and qualifications, please call or email Zena Wedgwood the Family Support Manager on  or email zenaw The manager would be more than happy to discuss in more detail.