Family Support Workers - Ref: CH06325

We Manage Jobs(WMJobs); Walsall; On-site; GBP 33,000 - 39,000; Part time

Job summary

A local council in Walsall is seeking Family Support Workers to enhance their Family Early Help Service. Roles include full-time and part-time positions, offering opportunities for progression. Candidates should have relevant qualifications and significant experience in early intervention with families. This role is essential in supporting children and families in collaboration with various agencies.

Qualifications

• Relevant academic or professional qualification at level 3 or higher.
• Significant experience in an early intervention setting.
• Ability to undertake comprehensive whole family assessments.

Responsibilities

• Engage effectively with families and children.
• Act as a ‘lead professional’ within family settings.
• Support families to enhance educational attendance and ambition.

Job description

Family Support Workers - Ref: CH06325

G7: £33,699 - £38,220 per annum.

1 part time post working 18.5 hours per week, permanent

1 full time post, fixed term until 31st March 2026.

Overview

Our transformed Family Early Help Service provides Early Help through a whole family approach based on collaboration with families and with partners from schools, health, children’s services and the community. We have vacancies for Family Support Workers within our workforce to further enhance our sense of purpose and our growing expertise.

These are exciting opportunities of progression for dynamic and experienced “family-centred” practitioners who hold relevant academic or professional qualification at level 3 or higher to play a significant role within the delivery of our Family Early Help Service.

Our transformed Family Early Help Service provides early help through a whole family approach based on collaboration with families and with partners from schools, health, children’s services and the community. We have vacancies available within our workforce to further enhance our sense of purpose and our growing expertise. We are looking for:

Responsibilities / What we are looking for

• Enthusiastic candidates who have significant experience and working knowledge of an early intervention setting and statutory work with children and families.
• Reflective practitioners who have a track record of working holistically with children, young people and families within a whole family model.
• Highly skilled practitioner who will demonstrate your extensive capability in engagement, undertaking comprehensive whole family assessments which create clear goals, and support your use of evidenced informed practice. We especially invite applications from workers with experience of working with children with additional needs and their families.
• Someone who can demonstrate their skill set to act as a ‘lead professional’ and the importance of working purposefully and collaboratively with all family members and other agencies to achieve best outcomes for children.
• An awareness of SEND, education issues and understanding of how to work with schools and families to drive engagement of children and families in educational attendance and ambition.

Important note: When completing your online application form, you will be asked to enter supporting information. You must enter a detailed supporting information statement describing how your skills, abilities and experience meet the specific criteria included in the employee specification. If you do not include a supporting information statement, you will not be shortlisted. Please also ensure that you complete the work history and qualifications sections of your application form. Please do not add a CV as we do not accept them. Please see our Information for Applicants leaflet for further information.

View Job Description and Employee Specification.

Closing date for applications: 3rd October 2025

Interviews will be held on 13th October 2025

This post is covered by the Government’s Code of Practice on the English Language Fluency Duty for public sector workers. The post holder will be required to communicate verbally with customers and provide advice and/or information in accurate spoken English.

Walsall Council takes seriously the responsibility to safeguard and promote the welfare of all the children, young people and vulnerable adults entrusted to our care and it is our expectation that all staff will share this commitment. We will ensure continuous development and improvement of robust recruitment processes and procedures that promote a culture of safeguarding amongst our workforce. Completion of an enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check is a requirement for working with children and young people.

For further reasons to join us, please visit: go.walsall.gov.uk/employee-benefits.

If you would like to know more about these roles, please contact:

Natasha Gayle (team manager) – [e-mail]

Sioux Beddow (team manager) – [e-mail]

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