Family Support Worker in Kingswood

Overview

How You\’ll Make a Difference As a Family Support Worker, you will join our Families Plus team in supporting families with children aged 5-18 to make and maintain changes in their lives. You will be skilled at engaging families quickly, creating purposeful, professional relationships and agreeing realistic aims and objectives. Building on their existing strengths to get through difficult experiences, our support helps families to continue to use what they have learned once the Families Plus involvement ends.

Responsibilities

• Carry out whole family assessments, providing advice and guidance to families where necessary.
• Ensure regular monitoring and reviewing of early help plans, updating needs where appropriate in accordance with safeguarding procedures.
• Manage your own caseload of work, ensuring specialist inputs and effective outcomes are achieved. Complete records and reports in accordance with professional and council guidelines.
• Liaise and work with contacts from different sectors, including early years settings, health, social care and the voluntary sector, ensuring that communication is effective so knowledge and best practice can be shared.

What We Need From You

• Hold an NVQ 3 or equivalent qualification in a relevant discipline or be working towards an appropriate qualification related to the provision of services to children and young people.
• Have considerable relevant experience of the use of evidence-based practice, working with vulnerable and disadvantaged children, families or young people.
• Demonstrable experience of writing holistic, multi-agency assessments and plans with families.
• Knowledge of relevant legislation, regulations and codes of practice, processes and procedures.
• Well-developed interpersonal and communication skills to build relationships and engage successfully with colleagues, service users and partner organisations.

What You Need To Know

• You will be expected to travel throughout the authority and surrounding area, so you must have a full, valid driving licence with regular access to a vehicle or have an alternative means of travel.
• Business Insurance will need to be added to your current insurance policy.
• Due to the nature of this role, an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check is required for this post.

Interviews

Interviews are being held week commencing 9th February 2026.

What a Career At South Gloucestershire Council Is Different

• Generous annual leave (pro rata), employee wellbeing support and access to staff discounts (eye tests, travel, shopping and leisure activities).
• We welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and developed on merit.
• Strong investment in training and development to support long-term impact.
• A team ethos with manageable caseloads and strong supervision to support decisions for the children and young people you work with.
• Committed to safeguarding and promoting the safety and welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults, with appropriate skills and support to recognise and respond to potential abuse or neglect.

Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a real difference to the lives of people who live, work and learn here. We’re building and shaping communities we’re proud of and are investing in our schools to help every child and young person achieve their full potential.

We’ve achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference. We’re making a difference, be part of it!

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