Family Support Worker x4

Position: Family Support Worker x4 roles available
Location: Chesterton

3. About the role## Family Support Worker x4 roles available

Job Reference:1667

Location:

Gloucestershire Hours of Work:37 hours per week (full-time)
Salary:£33,143 FTE per annum (pro-rata for part-time hours)
Contract Type:

Permanent Closing Date:24 Jan 2026### About the role Family Support Worker x4 roles available  Service:
Stroud and Cotswolds Children and Family Centre    Salary: £33,143 FTE per annum, £480 homeworking allowance FTE per annum will apply for homebased roles (pro-rata for part-time hours)

Location:

Based at Lewis Lane Children and Family Centre, Cirencester and/or Treetops Children and Family Centre, Dursley. This role requires staff to have a designated base, however, Family Action encourages a flexible approach (that includes working from home when this is optimal for your role) and enables you to work at your best and focus the majority of your time on the families you work with.
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

Hours:

4 posts available, option of full-time (37 hours per week) and part time hours.
We offer flexible working arrangements - please see below for more details.

Contract:

Permanent    Family Action & the Role’s Impact:  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.

Main Responsibilities:

• 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.
Main Requirements (for details check the job description and person specification):  
• Experience of working directly with children and their families; delivering evidence-based interventions and…