Disabled Childrens Family Worker

Cornwall Council; England; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

A local authority in the United Kingdom seeks Disabled Children's Family Workers for its Disabled Children & Therapy Service. The role involves advocating for disabled young people, coordinating essential services, and undertaking assessments and reviews of children's needs. Ideal candidates will have a Level 3 qualification and a minimum of three years' experience in the field, demonstrating a strong commitment to improving outcomes for disabled children and their families. This full-time role includes a competitive salary and opportunities for growth.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Defined benefit pension scheme

Generous annual leave entitlement

Employee health and wellbeing programme

Employee benefits scheme

Qualifications

• At least 3 years' experience of working with children and young people with disabilities.
• Excellent understanding of the needs of disabled children, young people and families.
• Track record of improving outcomes for disabled children.

Responsibilities

• Support and coordinate services for disabled children and families.
• Advocate for children and undertake assessments.
• Review children's needs in support plans.

Skills

Problem solving

Multi-agency work

Communication

Advocacy

Education

Level 3 qualification

Job description

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Disabled Children & Therapy Service (DC&TS) and to work in a specialist, multi-disciplinary team which supports disabled children, young people and their families.

Are you enthusiastic about supporting disabled children, young people and their families? Do you enjoy a career where two days are never the same? Do you excel at problem solving?

Disabled Children’s Family Workers support and coordinate other services to ensure disabled children, young people and their families have what they need. They are advocates on behalf for the children they work with, they work alongside social workers and work with children and families and sometimes provide immediate support at times of family emergency. They regularly review of the children’s needs in a child support plan. Disabled Children’s Family Workers are passionate and committed to working with disabled children and young people aged 0 to 18 years and their parents/carers.

Disabled Children’s Family Workers are supported to attend specific training so that they can use a range of evidence-based approaches and intervention skills such as, Positive behaviour Support, Signs of Safety, Motivational Interviewing, the Family Partnership Model. They use a solution focused approach to their work.

The Role

The Disabled Children & Therapy Service (DC&TS) is a specialist, multi-disciplinary service which supports disabled children, young people and their families whose main need for services arises from their disability or their intrinsic condition, where these conditions have a substantial or critical impact on the quality of the child’s/young person’s life or/and the lives of their families. The service intervenes where children’s needs cannot be fully met by universal services alone; it includes a statutory social care service that undertakes assessments that provides services at the acute and complex level of need, and services at Tier 2 through Early Support, Portage and Supporting Change in Partnership.

Disabled Children’s Family Workers work as part of multi-disciplinary teams where disabled children, young people and their families need coordinated support and a regular review of their needs following a statutory social work assessment and child plan. Disabled Children’s Family Workers work under the direction of a Team Manager in the Disabled Children and Therapy Service and the Manager in the Tier 2 Team and hold case responsibility for undertaking direct work with disabled children and young people aged 0 to 18 years and their parents/carers.

Disabled Children’s Family Workers are expected to attain and utilise a range of evidence-based approaches and intervention skills drawn from the core curriculum such as, the Outcomes Star, Signs of Safety, Motivational Interviewing, the Family Partnership Model and use a solution focused, goal orientated approach to their work.

Disabled Children’s Family Workers devise Child Support Plans, undertake Section 17 family assessments undertake direct work with children, maybe required to contribute to a range of social work led support, provide immediate support at times of family emergency and carry out reviews of progress against agreed outcomes using the Child Support Plan.

This is a public/customer-facing role, where the statutory English language requirement for public sector workers applies.

This position will be subject to a enhanced criminal record disclosure check.

About you

You will have at least 3 years’ experience of working with children and young people with disabilities and have a relevant level 3 qualification. You will have an excellent understanding of the needs of disabled children, young people and their families and recognise that parents are the experts in their own children. You will have an excellent track record of improving outcomes for disabled children.

You will have a passion for disability and be energetic, motivated and have the ability to make your practice fun.

You will be committed to multi-agency work and take a strengths-based approach to your work with families to develop resilience and reduce dependency.

You will understand the function of statutory services and relevant agencies. You will recognise the importance of working flexibly to include all members of the family and their support network and understand the dynamics of successful partnerships/relationships to enable change.

Please read the role profile for the full details of this role attached below in this advert

Working Pattern

This is a Full Time Post Monday - Thursday 08:45 - 17:15 Friday 08:45 - 16:45

Compressed Hours will be considered

What you’ll get in return

Cornwall Council’s ambition is to be an employer of choice, a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract, motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.

• a competitive salary.
• a defined benefit pension scheme, based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions
• a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave.
• A national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme
• Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services.

Additional Information

Cornwall Council is unable to offer visa sponsorship or transfer existing sponsorship for this role.

We recommend saving a copy of this to refer to if you are invited to an interview.

For more information or an informal chat about the role please contact Emma Collins [e-mail]

01872324320

Application Process

Please attach a supporting statement to your application, you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. Remember to demonstratewhy you are suitable against each of the points marked as ‘Application’ on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here – The application process .

Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted, please contact [e-mail] if you have any queries or require assistance with your application.

Existing employees must apply using their Cornwall Council email address through the Opportunity Marketplace on Oracle

We are happy to talk about flexible working options such as part-time or compressed hours. More examples of our flexible working opportunities can be found here - flexible working options .

Fairness and inclusion are at the heart of our vision for Cornwall. In order to best serve our communities, we are striving to achieve a diverse workforce that is inclusive of all backgrounds, cultures and identities; e.g., race, disability, sex, gender, age, religion and sexual orientation. We are an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer, and we will assess applicants on their merits.

Cornwall Council is committed to safeguarding and following safer recruitment principles to help make sure our staff and volunteers are suitable to work with children, young people and adults at risk.It’s a vital part of creating a safe and positive environment and making a commitment to keeping all service users safe from harm.

Job Info

• Job Identification 700003931
• Job Category Social Care & Support
• Posting Date 12/18/2025, 10:39 AM
• Apply Before 01/18/2026, 11:59 PM
• Locations Pydar House, Truro, Cornwall, TR1 1EA, GB
• Job Type/Contract Type Permanent
• Available Hours 37
• <>Interview Dates 05-Feb-2026
• Advertised Salary Range £26,597 - £31,869