Family Support Worker: Disabled Children Service

Bristol City Council; West of England; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

LGPS

Annual leave

Job summary

Bristol City Council is seeking a Full Time Family Support Worker for the Disabled Children Service, based at Floor 7, BBond, Smeaton Road, Bristol. You will work with disabled children, young people and families to provide practical and emotional support, including visits, assessments and reviews with the social care team.

You will use Signs of Safety, systemic and relationship-based practice to improve outcomes, aligned with statutory timescales.

Qualifications

• Experience working with disabled children and families.
• Ability to visit, assess and review child in need plans.
• Knowledge of safeguarding and statutory processes.

Responsibilities

• Visit and assess disabled children and families.
• Ensure timescales for assessments and reviews are met.
• Work with social work, occupational therapy and hub teams.

Skills

Experience with disabled children

Family support work

Assessment and review

Job description

The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included.

Job details

Job reference VAC008888 Date posted 28/09/2026 Application closing date 11/10/2026 Location B Bond - West Wing Smeaton Road Hotwells Bristol BS1 6XN Salary BG8: £30,023 - £32,046 Package Blank Contractual hours 37 Basis Full time Job category/type Social Care Attachments Job Description.pdf Person Specification.pdf

Family Support Worker: Disabled Children Service

Full Time, Permanent
Workplace: Floor 7, BBond, Smeaton Road, Bristol, BS1 6XN This isan office-basedrole Do you have knowledge and experience of working with disabled children and young people and their families – together with a passion to improve the lives and outcomes of disabled children, young people and their families? If yes - we have an exciting opportunity for a full time Family Support Worker in the Disabled Children Service and Specialist Services. Our family support workers work with disabled children, young people and their families who receive support services from our social work team, occupational therapy team or the Social Care Hub. Our family support workers provide help to support disabled children and young people lead an “ordinary life”, as much as possible. Our family support workers offer practical help and emotional support to disabled children, young people and their families experiencing short or long-term difficulties. They provide support to empower families to address various challenges, reducing problems and risks. They can help parents, carers and disabled children and young people with a range of social and personal issues. Our family support workers are trained to deliver specialist parenting courses which are personalised to support disabled children and young people complex needs. By providing our most complex disabled children and young people child in need support, we support parents and carers in their role as primary carers and give them much needed breaks to assist them to look after themselves and their wider family. Alongside a designated Social Worker working in the new Review and Re-assessment team you will be responsible for visiting, assessing and reviewing disabled children and young people and their child in need plan. You will ensure statutory timescales for the completion of child in need assessments, visits and reviews are met and that the work completed with disabled children and families is meaningful, proportionate and effective. As a lead professional, you will use your specialist knowledge and expertise of the wide range of challenges that affect disabled children and their families to support assessment, plan and review. You will work in partnership with the family and multi-agency network to improve outcomes for disabled children. Practice frameworks and approaches:

• Signs of Safety is the framework we use to assess and respond to harm.
• Systemic Practice provides the theories to understand the complexity of an individual’s experiences and the influence they have on their ability to make and sustain change.
• Relationship based Practice means strengthening relationships between people as well as strengthening social connections within communities.
• Contextual Safeguarding enables us to assess and respond to harm that affects children outside their families.

Team Vision: We want to create a consistent offer for disabled children, young people and families so that the intervention they receive is the best that can be offered, we want to ensure our interventions are supporting better outcomes for disabled children, young people and families whilst supporting them at the lowest level. Why Bristol City Council? At Bristol City Council, we go that extra mile for our people; we offer a work environment which is fast moving and supportive, giving you the chance to use your skills and develop new ones within a high-profile organisation. Join us and you’ll receive an excellent rewards package including flexible working and flexitime, membership of the Local Government Pension scheme, and a generous annual leave allowance. In addition, you’ll be working in a supportive environment where you’ll have the chance to make Bristol a better place and contribute to its future. Please note that this role is subject to an Enhanced DBS Check.
Sponsorship is not currently available for this vacancy
We're a Disability Confident employer which means we value recruiting and retaining disabled people. Any job applicants who consider themselves to be disabled and meet the essential criteria in the Person Specification are guaranteed an interview. We'll make reasonable adjustments throughout the interview process and provide continued workplace support throughout your career. For further information, please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification or alternatively, please contact: [e-mail] or [e-mail]
Shortlisting will take on: 12 October 2026Interviews will take place on: 21 st and 22 nd October 2026 (these will be in person at B Bond, we will not be offering remote interviews). Applicants should ensure they are available for the interview date. Bristol City Council strives to have a workforce that reflects the communities it serves, we are therefore committed to ensuring diversity in our hiring process. We welcome, develop and promote people from all sections of the community. We particularly welcome applications from Black and racially minoritised, Disabled and LGBTQ+ candidates who are currently under-represented within this Service of Bristol City Council. Appointments will be made on merit.
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