Family Support Specialist — Travel-Ready

Kinship; Reading; Hybrid; GBP 24,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Kinship is seeking a compassionate Family Worker to support kinship carers across Reading, Wokingham and West Berkshire. You will provide intensive one-to-one support, lead groups, and help families navigate services to improve outcomes for children.

You’ll travel across the county, delivering home-based and community-based support with some remote work, contributing to safeguarding and working with multiple partners to strengthen resilience in kinship families.

Qualifications

• Experience of family work and undertaking needs assessments both in person and remotely.
• Experience of setting up and facilitating support groups.
• Experience of working with statutory, voluntary and community sector organisations.
• Experience of safeguarding.
• Experience of using CRM or case management systems.
• Excellent communication, organisational and relationship-building skills.
• The ability to manage a varied workload and work independently.
• A full, clean driving licence and the right to work in the UK.

Responsibilities

• Deliver one-to-one support to kinship carers in homes, communities and remotely.
• Undertake needs assessments and support carers to achieve goals and outcomes.
• Provide emotional support, advocacy and practical guidance.
• Facilitate support groups and help carers build local support networks.
• Work collaboratively with local authorities, schools, community organisations and other professionals.
• Support the coordination and delivery of Kinship Ready workshops.
• Maintain accurate records, monitor outcomes and contribute to demonstrating impact.
• Safeguard and promote the welfare of children and families in line with policies.

Skills

Family work

Needs assessments

Support groups facilitation

Safeguarding

CRM / case management

Communication

Independent workload management

Driving licence

Tools

CRM systems

Salesforce (Desirable)

Job description

Kinship is seeking a compassionate Family Worker to support kinship carers across Reading, Wokingham and West Berkshire. You will provide intensive one-to-one support, lead groups, and help families navigate services to improve outcomes for children.

You’ll travel across the county, delivering home-based and community-based support with some remote work, contributing to safeguarding and working with multiple partners to strengthen resilience in kinship families.