Family Support Worker - SEND Specialism

Leicestershire County Council; Leicester; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 35,000; Part time

Job summary

A local government authority in the UK seeks a part-time Family Support Worker to assist children and families, particularly those with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND). You will engage with families in their homes and through community hubs, delivering tailored support and guidance. An enhanced DBS check is required, and experience with relevant group work and community networking is essential for the role. The position is part-time, working 18.5 hours per week, with a focus on promoting resilience and positive outcomes for families.

Qualifications

• Experience working with children and families.
• Understanding of equality, diversity, and inclusion.
• Commitment to values of the Council.

Responsibilities

• Support families through one-to-one work in homes.
• Run drop-in sessions and groups within Family Hubs.
• Engage with health and social care agencies.

Skills

Helping families identify support networks

Delivering group work and clinic sessions

Supporting access to universal provisions

Flexible support methods

Providing expert advice

Supporting Short Break panel assessments

Focused support on challenging behaviors

Job description

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location: County Hall/Across localities Blaby, Oadby & Wigston

Worker Category: Field-Based Worker

Salary: £32,070 - £34,359 per annum (pro-rata for part-time)

Working Hours:18.5 Hours per week

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: 11th January 2026

Interview Date(s): 20th January 2026

About the Role

We have an exciting opportunity for you to join our team, a part-time (18.5 hours) Family Support Worker with a SEND Specialism.

We work across the Blaby, Oadby & Wigston area and work alongside other agencies such as health, schools, social care and community organisations to support children and their families.

You will support them doing one to one work in the home, or may see them running drop in sessions or groups within our Family Hubs, come and join our team and help improve outcomes for our Children and their Families…..

An enhanced with barred list DBS check is required for this post.

For information on our approach to the recruitment of ex-offenders, please see our policy statement.

About You

To apply for this post, you must respond to and evidence the following 7 essential criteria within your personal statement.

• Helping families to identify their own networks of support from family, friends and their local communities, to ensure they have the help they need to remain resilient and can sustain positive change
• Delivering time-limited periods of support which may include casework, evidence-based group work, or clinic sessions, to children, young people and families experiencing a range of issues which impact on family functioning and achievement of good outcomes
• Supporting families to access universal provision and become more self- sufficient to avoid the need for more intensive input
• To offer a variety of flexible support including drop-ins, workshops and outreach to support families of children with SEND needs
• To undertake the role of a subject expert within the wider team providing advice to colleagues who are working with children and families with additional needs
• To support the process of Short Break panel assessments and reviews
• To provide focused support through a range of methods on behaviours that challenge/behaviours of distress to enable parents to ful fill their parenting role

You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.

In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.

Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.

Interested in Flexible Working?

We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.

Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.

For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:

Helen Coulter - Team Leader

Telephone: [phone]

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How to Apply

Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ Plus communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.

To apply for this job, please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format, please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning 0300 3030222 (select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: https://emss.org.uk/support.

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