Family Support Worker

Gloucestershire County Council; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 33,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

LGPS

Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

Cycle to Work scheme

Green Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme

Job summary

Gloucestershire County Council is recruiting a Family Support Worker to join the Family Link Plus team in Gloucester on a permanent basis. The post involves delivering targeted support to vulnerable children and their families to achieve better outcomes and reduce need for higher level services.

You will work with children and young people in the community or in foster carers' homes, coordinating interventions with a solution-focused approach.

Qualifications

• Experience of working with children, young people, families and communities to deliver interventions.
• Experience of multi-agency assessments and plans is a must.

Responsibilities

• Deliver targeted support to vulnerable children and families to achieve better outcomes.
• Work directly with children and young people in the community or in foster carers' homes.
• Coordinate and deliver interventions using a solution-focused approach with families.

Skills

Experience with children and families

Multi-agency working

Job description

Family Support Worker

Job Location: Gloucestershire

This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.

• Job Location: Shire Hall, Block 6
• Salary: £30,024 - £32,597 per annum
• Hours per Week: 37.00
• Closing Date: 20/09/2026
• Job Requisition Number: 14856
• This post is open to job share

Gloucestershire County Council are currently recruiting for a Family Support Worker to join our Family Link Plus team based in Gloucester on a permanent basis.

Reward and support

For all your hard work, you will receive the following:

• between £33,143 - £36,363 per annum subject to experience/ Pay award is pending at 3.3% salary will increase to £34,237- £37,563 per annum/pro rata for part time
• flexible and agile working opportunities
• 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years continuous service
• option to purchase 10 days of additional leave per year
• family friendly policies and benefits to help support you and your family
• supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision
• Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
• access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone
• an in-house Occupational Health service
• employee discount scheme
• links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) and the Young Employees Network
• career development and qualification opportunities
• access to our Social Work Academy
• Cycle to Work scheme (eligibility criteria and t&cs apply)
• Green Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme (eligibility criteria and t&cs apply)

Right child, right support, right time, every time

In our recent inspection in June 2025, our Children’s Services have been officially judged as‘Good’ with ‘Outstanding’ elements.

Ofsted also said ‘Leaders have set out a clear vision for delivering success for children, by modelling values and creating a culture where the workforce, children and families feel valued and heard; risk is managed confidently with bottom lines clearly set out.’

This marks an important step in our journey to improve outcomes for our children and young people, and we remain focused on our mission: to continue building on this success and ensure that every child and young person in our county has the opportunity to thrive.

Gloucestershire offers a range of opportunities to develop your career, supported by a phenomenal Social Work Academy offer, a developing systemic practice methodology, an ambitious leadership team and an award-winning workforce.

We are a local authority adopting, and training all colleagues in, systemic social work practice. If you would like to be part of an authority that takes a relational approach to working with families and focuses on what needs to change in the system around a child and family to enable children to thrive, then consider a role with GCC.

About the role

Working as a Family Support Worker is an exciting, interesting, and rewarding role. Your aim will be to deliver targeted support to vulnerable children and their families to achieve better outcomes and reduce the need for higher level support and long-term demand for services.

You will deliver direct work to children & young people with profound/ multiple learning disabilities and additional care/health needs. Direct work can take place in the community, or in the Foster Carers home where you will be working to support a range of interventions. You will co-ordinate and deliver interventions using a solution focussed approach by building supportive and empowering relationships with families, you will engage children and young people through a range of communication tools/resources, creative and innovative strategies, in line with partner agencies and organisations.

You will benefit from our commitment to delivering the best possible service to children and families, and the chance to join an experienced and dynamic team.You will be joining an authority with a strong set of values that underpins the work we do: Accountability, Empowerment, Excellence, Integrity and Respect. For more information about our values, pleaseclick here.

About you

We are looking for someone with experience of working with children, young people, families, and communities to deliver a wide range of interventions.

Experience of working with multi-agency assessments and plans is also a must.

A full driving licence and access to a car is essential.

The role of a Family Support Worker requires you to work flexibly andwillinclude working evenings and weekends.

We reserve the right to close an advertisement earlier than the stated closing date if we receive a suitable number of applications.

Interviews are due to take place in person at Shire Hall week commencing 28th September 2026.

If you would like to find out more about our Children's Service please take a look here: Children's Social Care Careers | Careers hub