Senior Family Support Worker

Senior Family Support Worker – Permanent

• Job Title:
  
  Senior Family Support Worker
• Job Location:
  
  Shire Hall, The Link, Ground Floor
• Salary: £37,280 – £40,777 per annum
• Hours per Week: 37.00
• Contract Type:
  Permanent
• Closing Date: 02/08/2026
• Job Requisition Number: 14522
• This post is open to job share

We are currently recruiting for Senior Family Support Worker to join our dedicated Turn Around for Children and the Family Drug & Alcohol Court (TACS)

• between £37,280 – £40,777 per annum subject to experience (pro rata for part-time staff)
• flexible and agile working opportunities
• 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years continuous service (pro rata for part-time staff)
• option to purchase 10 days of additional leave per year (pro rata for part-time staff)
• 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
• links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) and the Young Employees Network
• career development and qualification opportunities
• access to our Social Work Academy
• Cycle to Work scheme (eligibility criteria and t&cs apply)
• Green Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme (eligibility criteria and t&cs apply)

In our recent inspection in June 2025, our Children’s Services have been officially judged as ‘Good’ with ‘Outstanding’ elements. Ofsted also said ‘Leaders have set out a clear vision for delivering success for children, by modelling values and creating a culture where the workforce, children and families feel valued and heard; risk is managed confidently with bottom lines clearly set out.’

This marks an important step in our journey to improve outcomes for our children and young people, and we remain focused on our mission: to continue building on this success and ensure that every child and young person in our county has the opportunity to thrive.

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.

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.

Turn Around for Children and the Family Drug & Alcohol Court (TACS) is a multidisciplinary service of 15. We work out of Shire Hall (Barbican Wing) in Gloucester, but we cover the county. We manage and deliver the problem‑solving, collaborative court which is the Family Drug & Alcohol Court. We work intensively and therapeutically with families who are in family proceedings who have addictions and other co‑existing, such as poor wellbeing and physical health and whose intimate relationships are a cause of harm to children.

We are a flexible service, and we like to work together across disciplines; we deliver our interventions in our offices, in court, in homes, communities and schools. You will work closely with social workers, health visitors and speech and language therapists, all of whom are in our service.

This vacancy is for a very important role in the Turn Around for Children Service, that of working with our children. Ideally, we need someone who is an experienced Thrive assessor and can also deliver therapeutic Theraplay interventions with children, parents and carers. We have a strong and relentless focus on building a child’s resilience to improve their life‑long outcomes.

This is a unique opportunity and an innovative role.

If you are interested in the role, not sure if you have the experience or skills, then we strongly advise that you contact Jane or Pat…