Family Support Worker

Barnardo's; Wednesbury; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Barnardo's as a Family Support Worker in Wednesbury, where you'll aid children and families using a trauma-informed approach. This role involves collaborating with partners and providing essential services to promote resilience and self-care, ensuring that families receive timely, effective support. The position, while permanent, is tied to funding until March 2026, with opportunities for impactful community work.

Qualifications

• Experience working with children and families.
• Knowledge of services available for families.
• Understanding of trauma and its impact on children.

Responsibilities

• Plan and support delivery of targeted service elements.
• Strengthen families and promote resilience through quality support.
• Collaborate with agencies for sustainable change.

Skills

Trauma-informed approach

Team collaboration

Communication

Problem solving

Education

Relevant qualification in health, social care, or related field

Job description

Are you looking for an exciting and new challenge? Are you passionate about supporting childre, young people and families? If so, look no further! We are seeking a full time Family Support Worker to work across our Family Hubs within Sandwell. This is a fantastic opportunity to become part of a passionate and committed team and be an active member of the wider Family Hub Network.

Our Family Support team take an active role in working with partner organisations, local communities, and residents to achieve best outcomes for the children and families within Sandwell. You will be working with a strengths-based, trauma informed and relational approach to engage and support families, ensuring each family gets the right support at the right time.

Working pattern:

Monday to Friday with flexibility required for occasional evening and weekend work to meet the needs of the service.

Some key activities/objectives include:

• Plan and support delivery of targeted service elements, producing KPI's and outcomes.
• To strengthen families in a trauma informed way; promote resilience and self-care to prevent children and young people requiring more specialist and intensive support through high quality and impactful direct work.
• To support families to access universal services as appropriate.
• To offer a range of other evidence-based interventions to support their work with families.
• Complete and upload all relevant forms (risk assessments, Consent, GDPR, CC registration form).
• Work with the wider teams within the Family Hub Offer to meet the needs of the service across the borough.
• Working in collaboration with agencies to strengthen the exit strategy to ensure sustainable change.
• To capture the voice and experience of children and young people and utilise this to inform and develop service delivery.

When completing your application please refer to your skills knowledge and experience in relation to the Person Specification, Job Description and Additional Information document (if applicable). This should be done with an understanding of the context of the service described.

Although this contract has a permanent status, please be aware that this post is subject to funding currently to 31.03.2026 and therefore should this funding not be extended further, you may be subject to a redundancy consultation or a TUPE arrangement. This contract is due to expire on 31.03.2026.

Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible.