Family Help Coordinator

Stockport Council; Stockport; Hybrid; GBP 36,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Stockport Council is offering a Family Help Coordinator role within the Stockport Family service. The post is full-time (37 hours) on a temporary basis until June 2027, with hybrid working at One Stockport Family Hubs and some homeworking.

You will be the lead professional for families, carrying out assessments and coordinating family meetings to ensure timely, right responses. You will work directly with children and families in various settings, support early help strategies, and contribute to

Qualifications

• Experience in direct work with children and families in various settings.
• Ability to complete assessments and coordinate family meetings.
• Experience facilitating groups or delivering programmes with families.

Responsibilities

• Provide front-line service to families and act as lead professional.
• Complete assessments and engage with children and families to understand daily life.
• Lead team around family meetings and ensure right responses at the right time.

Skills

Front-line service

Lead professional

Assessment delivery

Group facilitation

Job description

Family Help Coordinator
SO1 (£35,570 - £40,444)
37 Hours, Full Time
Temporary, until June 2027
Hybrid - One Stockport Family Hub, Westmorland Drive, Brinnington, SK5 8HH with some homeworking

Application Deadline: 10th November 2026, 11:59pm
Shortlisting Date: 11th November 2026
Interview Date: 18th November 2026
Interview Type: In person

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Your Role

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Family Help Coordinator to join our Family Help teams.

You will provide a front-line service, working to in line with Stockport Family’s start well and early help strategies and the healthy child programme 0-19 to ensure families receive the right response at the right time.

You will act as the lead professional for families, completing assessments, engaging with children and families to understand their daily lives and leading team around the family meetings.

About You

You will be experienced in direct work with children and families, in a variety of settings including family homes.

You will be passionate and committed to improve outcomes for Children and Families. You always consider the voice of the child, young person in the context of the family and community functioning.

You may have experience of facilitating groups and using evidence-based programmes to work with parents, children and young people to achieve positive behaviour change.

You will be committed to your professional development, take up the vast amount of learning opportunities on offer and be excited about being part of Stockport Family.

Please see the job profile for more information about this exciting opportunity.

About Us

If you join us, you will be working within Stockport Family which is an integrated Education, Health and Care service which puts children, young people and families at the heart of our provision.

At Stockport Council we are one ambitious team on a mission to create opportunities for everyone who lives, works and spends time in the borough. Working at Stockport Council means contributing to one of the most thriving towns in the North. We’re keen to recruit people with the right values and behaviours that can help us ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do.

We are proud to be recognised under the Good Employment Charter as an organisation committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues. As members of the charter, we have been recognised as a great place to work for all colleagues and pledge to pay the real living wage, engage staff in key decisions and endorse fair and flexible working conditions.

The successful applicant’s appointment will be subject to satisfactory pre-employment clearances including a Disclosure and Barring Service check.

Stockport Council holds a Visa sponsorship licence but this can only be used for certain roles and this campaign does not currently qualify.

Please note that we have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers and ex-military personnel. As part of the Guaranteed Assessment Scheme you will therefore be guaranteed to be shortlisted for Assessment if you meet both the criteria for the scheme and the essential job role criteria.

Find out if you meet the criteria here: https://www.greater.jobs/our-guaranteed-assessment-scheme

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Stockport Council is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive workforce culture - a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and communities to join our workforce.

We want our employees to have a good work life balance and in many job roles we can offer a range of flexible/hybrid working arrangements. We also have inclusive employment policies and staff engagement forums to support our diverse workforce. We will listen to, learn from, and develop our workforce.

Supporting Documents

Job Profile