Family Support Coordinator

Action for Children; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 32,000; Full time

Job summary

A charitable organization for children in Glasgow seeks a Family Support Coordinator to enhance service delivery and support vulnerable children and families. The ideal candidate should have significant experience in multi-agency environments, excellent leadership skills, and a commitment to making a positive impact. This full-time position offers an annual salary of £31,900 and various benefits, including annual leave and training opportunities.

Benefits

29 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Professional qualifications and training opportunities

Flexible family packages

Pension with employer contribution

Staff discount portal

Qualifications

• Significant post qualification experience of working with children, young people and or families in a multi-agency environment.
• Advanced experience of chairing, supporting and contributing to service planning meetings.
• Experience of collating and producing reports for desired outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with senior personnel to enhance service delivery.
• Design and implement interventions for children and families.
• Lead and manage staff, coaching and mentoring them.

Job description

Salary: £31,900 per annum

Location: Glasgow, Scotland

Contract/Hours: Permanent / Full Time – 37 hours per week including evenings and weekends

Closing date for applications is midnight on Monday 1st September

Benefits

• 29 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays, with up to 5 additional days for continuous service and option to buy or sell leave
• Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities
• Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages
• Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cover
• Staff discount portal and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailers discounts.

A bit about the role

Glasgow Health and Social Care Partnership have commissioned services based in Glasgow to work alongside families in a flexible and strengths based way to help them achieve positive outcomes. As part of a city-wide strategy, the service will promote the wellbeing of children and young people aged 12+ years to support them to stay at home and thrive with their families within their local communities by offering the right support at the right time.

Our shared vision is to support children and young people to live with their parents and siblings, or where this is in the best interest of children, with their extended family, enabling them to grow up in their community with their friends, and attend their local school.

To help us deliver on this vision, we’re currently looking to recruit a Family Support Coordinator—a key role that will help shape and strengthen our support for families across Glasgow. If you're passionate about making a meaningful difference and have the skills to lead, collaborate, and innovate, we’d love to hear from you.

How you’ll help to create brighter futures

• Collaborate with senior personnel and management to assess and enhance service delivery, fostering continuous improvement, innovation, and business growth, especially in designated work areas.
• Support children, young people, and families by designing and implementing interventions, and coordinating with various agencies and professionals.
• Engage in key multiagency activities, such as organising and leading service planning sessions, conducting home visits, and overseeing conference meetings when suitable.
• Lead and manage staff directly, enforcing relevant policies and procedures, and fostering growth through coaching and mentorship.
• Significant post qualification experience of working with children, young people and or families in a multi-agency environment and achieving positive outcomes through intervention.
• To manage and develop subordinate staff or a team.
• Advanced experience of chairing, supporting and contributing to service planning meetings.
• Experience of the development and practice of community working, including influencing involvement.
• Working in collaboration to achieve change within your immediate team and wider multi agency partnerships.
• Experience of collating and producing reports, capturing and progressing the relevant information for a desired outcome.
• Experience of effective partnership working.

Let’s talk about you

Vulnerable children in the UK need your help

Wherever you work in the Action for Children family, you'll be helping to change the lives of the most vulnerable children in the UK.

Last year, we helped more than 670,000 children and families across the UK. From direct work in communities to national campaigning, we are focused on ensuring every child has a safe and happy childhood, and the foundations they need to thrive.

Why Action for Children?

Working here is more than a job. Everyone in the Action for Children family is passionate about protecting and supporting children. It's the sense of purpose that drives us every single day. Because we know that, when we work together, we can make a huge difference to bring lasting improvements to vulnerable children's lives.

Good to know

Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.

Contact

Contact: Laura McCarthy at [e-mail] quoting reference 11799

Diversity, equality and inclusion

At Action for Children, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace.

We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups in society and for Action for Children.

Male staff are under-represented within our Children Service roles. We would like to encourage more male applicants for our Children Service roles.