Family Time Worker

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Benefits offered by this job

Disability Confident employer

Job summary

Staffordshire County Council is seeking a dedicated Family Time Worker to support children in foster care, helping them understand birth identity and visiting with birth parents. You will foster positive relationships and coordinate family time across locations, including transport to appointments and school runs.

You will be flexible to work early mornings, evenings and weekends, with a minimum NVQ 3 in working with children and families or equivalent experience, and you must hold a valid

Qualifications

• Experience of direct work with children, their families, and carers in a statutory or voluntary agency which provides services to vulnerable children and their families.
• Experience in the use of IT including Microsoft packages
• Be flexible to work evenings and occasional weekends as needed.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate therapeutic family time between children and their parents or other family members.
• Coordinate arrangements for family time for children and their parents or other family members as directed by court.
• Transport children and young people to attend family time.
• Provide parenting support and guidance during family time.
• Support the completion of accurate documentation, reports, and records in relation to children, young people, and families.
• Be available outside of traditional working patterns including evenings and weekends to provide support to children, families, and carers when it is needed.

Skills

Direct work with children

Communication with families

IT & MS Office

Education

NVQ 3 in children & families

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Pay:

£27,274 to £28,153 per year, Competitive

Contract Type:

Permanent

Hours:

Disability Confident:

Yes

Closing Date:

06/10/2026

About this job

Are you passionate about making a difference to children's lives who are placed in local authority foster care?

As a Family Time Worker, you’ll play a critical role in supporting children in understanding their birth identity and supervising their time with birth parents.

We’re looking for people to join us with the skills to encourage and help maintain positive relationships between children and parents.

We work with very vulnerable children so we must ensure we maintain professional relationships whilst managing complex family needs and behaviours.

You’ll play a vital role in supporting families for them to spend quality time together.

Our aim during family time is to promote a positive and meaningful time for children with their family.

This could include offering support, guidance, and parenting advice or modelling positive interaction and behaviours.

We also support children getting to and from school and family time in various locations.

Our Family Time Workers are required to transport the children around the county and further afield.

This role will be based from The Vision Centre, Chesterton.

You will be required to be flexible with your working hours including early mornings, evenings and weekends.

Main Responsibilities You will: Facilitate therapeutic family time between children and their parents or other family members.

Coordinate arrangements for family time for children and their parents or other family members as directed by court.

Transport children and young people to attend family time.

Provide parenting support and guidance during family time.

Support the completion of accurate documentation, reports, and records in relation to children, young people, and families.

Be available outside of traditional working patterns including evenings and weekends to provide support to children, families, and carers when it is needed.

The Ideal Candidate As well as a passion for helping and supporting children and their families, you’ll need to have:

Experience of direct work with children, their families, and carers in a statutory or voluntary agency which provides services to vulnerable children and their families.

Experience in the use of IT including Microsoft packages An understanding of the key pieces of policies, guidance, and legislation which govern children’s social care.

Be flexible to work evenings and occasional weekends as needed.

Minimum Criteria Have unrestricted use of a car and a driving licence.

The ability to effectively communicate with children, their families, and carers.

The ability to build relationships and deliver interventions to children, families, and carers.

The ability to work effectively in conflict situations.

An understanding of child development and the effect of stress and trauma on child development.

A minimum NVQ 3 in working with children and families or equivalent experience of working with children and families.

For information, please note that there is currently an ongoing review within Children and Families to realign individual teams and the wider team’s ways of working.

As a result, this role may be affected by the review.

About Staffordshire County Council

We are no ordinary county council: Our Values: The core of who we are as an organisation.

Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.

Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy: We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together.

This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people.

We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.

We look forward and race ahead

• that goes for your career too.

Our benefits: We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do.

We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.

In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to Our rewards and benefits

• Careers at Staffordshire Our recruitment process: As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer.

We encourage applications from all background and communities As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Gold Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers

• we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post.

As you’ll know safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people/vulnerable adults is important to us and that’s why this position is subject to a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service.

If applicable you should disclose details of unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions in your application form.