Family Support Worker - ANG

Job Description

Based at Bruce House, Wellgate, Arbroath.

This job is workstyle 3 - Flexi

You will have the opportunity to benefit from our flexible and agile working practices. This means you will work from a variety of locations including working from council buildings and you can work from home to best suit your work, meetings and collaboration.

This is an exciting opportunity to work in AIST (Adolescents Intensive Support Team) which was formed in 2025.

AIST provide an intensive, responsive, needs-led service to support young people aged 12-18 years and their families/carers who find themselves at risk of breakdown in their living situation.

The service provides a range of interventions and assessments to support young people, family relationships, parenting, and reunification plans to enable families to remain together or to be reunited.

This can involve daily sessions for young people, direct support for parents/carers and group work. AIST also support young people from Angus who are looked after outwith the local authority area.

You will support the case responsible Social Worker in the referring team who have identified that intensive support is required.

The young people may be receiving voluntary support, be looked after, receiving support via care and risk management processes or be on the child protection register.

You will be expected to occasionally work across Scotland or the United Kingdom to support and assess young people, depending on their placement and living arrangements.

You will work 36.25 hours per week. You will be required to work on a rota system which covers scheduled evening support until 10pm and weekends until 7pm.

Please note interviews will be held - to be confirmed.

You must have the ability to become a member of the PVG Scheme.

Please refer to job outline and person specification for further details and requirements for this job.

In addition, please refer to the "applicant guidance" document when completing your application form and to the "welcome to Angus" document and our website  for more information about working for Angus Council.

We are happy to discuss flexible working during the recruitment process for this position. This means we are open to a conversation about working patterns and the flexibility that is available for this role whilst managing the workload.

We offer a guaranteed job interview to the following people who meet the essential criteria on application for a job:

Those with disabilities, recognised caring responsibilities, care experienced young people and ex-armed forces personnel. This also applies to our own employees with caring responsibilities, young people on apprenticeships and placements who meet the essential criteria for the job.