Senior Family Worker

Oldham; Oldham; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 39,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

LGPS pension scheme

Discounted gym membership

Staff discount scheme

Cycle to Work

Wellbeing support

Staff recognition

Job summary

Oldham Council's Family Help service is seeking an experienced Senior Family Worker to manage an allocated caseload of families with complex needs and to lead multi-agency meetings coordinating development and delivery of joint support plans to address risks and needs.

You will employ strength-based approaches to build trusting relationships, support resilience and improve outcomes for children and families, while conducting holistic assessments in partnership with families to draft bespoke

Qualifications

• Substantial experience of assessing and analysing the needs of children and families and implementing programmes of support to address these.
• Extensive experience of working within a service delivering support to families who have complex lives including mental health, offending, substance misuse, domestic abuse and may resist service involvement.
• Ability to communicate effectively and work in partnership with multiple partner organisations to support children and families to be in control of their lives.

Responsibilities

• To be responsible for an allocated caseload of families with multiple and complex needs, including acting as lead professional, chairing multi-agency meetings and coordinating development and delivery of multi-agency support plans addressing assessed needs and risks.
• Utilise strengths-based, creative approaches to build trusting relationships with families, enabling challenge and support to improve resilience, self-reliance and children’s outcomes.
• Carry out holistic assessments with family involvement to identify strengths, assets, risks and challenges, and translate this into bespoke, collaborative work plans.

Job description

Children and Young People

Family Help

Senior Family Worker

Ref: 001768

Contract: Fixed Term (31 March 2028)

Salary: £35570 - £39481 per annum (Grade 6)

Hours: 36.66 per week

Based: District offices across the Oldham Borough

Closing date: Friday 23 October 2026

Interview Dates: TBC

Role overview

Working within Oldham Council's Family Help service, you will be an experienced Family Worker with strong knowledge of good practice in work with children and families, experience of holding cases, developing quality support plans for families and ensuring children and families receive coordinated support from other relevant agencies as required.

Key responsibilities

• To be responsible for an allocated caseload of families who have multiple and complex needs, including: Undertaking the role of lead professional, including chairing multi-agency team around the family meetings and co-ordinating development and delivery of multi-agency support plans which address assessed needs and risks.
• To use strength based creative approaches to build trusting relationships with families that enable challenge and support to help build resilience, self-reliance, and improve family life and children's outcomes.
• To carry out holistic assessments, in partnership with family members, to identify and understand the unique strengths, assets, risks and challenges faced by the family and analyse this to create a bespoke plan of work in partnership with the family.

Key Requirements

To succeed in this role, you will need as a minimum:

• Substantial experience of assessing and analysing the needs of children and families and implementing programmes of support to address these.
• Extensive experience of working within a service delivering support to families who have complex lives which may include mental health, offending, substance misuse, domestic abuse and may be resistant to service involvement.
• You’ll need to be able to communicate effectively and work in partnership with many different partner organisations, who support children and families to be in control of their lives.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and therefore expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

About us

We want Oldham to have vibrant, safe neighbourhoods where people are proud to live with opportunities for healthier, more fulfilled lives; and a sustainable, thriving economy. As we look to the future, the challenges may be significant, but so are the opportunities. We've identified three missions with our residents and partners, focusing on what will deliver the biggest impact:

A Great Place to Live, Healthier, Happier Lives, and Green and Growing.

We're looking for candidates who will support us to achieve our ambitions and we encourage you to download our Corporate Plan: Ready for the Future and Oldham Plan for further information.

Our Values and Behaviours

By driving innovation, investing in our people, and championing our communities, we will ensure that Oldham continues to be a place where everyone can live their best life. To support this, we have three core values which define who we are and how we operate. These are 'Proud, Ambitious, and Together' and they shape our culture, inform our decisions, and inspire us to deliver on our commitments to the people of Oldham.

We have translated these values into five behaviours which guide our actions and are the standards we hold ourselves to, day in and day out:

• Work with a resident focus
• Support local leaders
• Committed to the borough
• Delivery high performance
• Take ownership and drive change

You can find out more about our values and behaviours on our greater.jobs Oldham page.

Our Benefits Package

At Oldham Council we offer a great benefits package for our employees, which includes the following:

• 25 days annual leave which increases after 5 and 10-years' service
• The option to purchase additional annual leave.
• An attractive LGPS benefit pension scheme with the option to make shared cost additional voluntary contributions.
• Discounted gym membership with Oldham Active.
• Staff discount scheme for shopping, entertainment, eating-out, eating-in, travel, motoring and more.
• Salary sacrifice scheme for home and electronics and Cycle to Work.
• Wellbeing support, including a Mental Health First Aider network and an Employment Assistance Programme that provides 24 hours access to advice and support.
• Staff recognition and celebration events.
• Peer support groups

Inclusive Recruitment

We work closely with employees to help them work at their best, including making adjustments such as flexible working, describing available working patterns, providing equipment or making changes to the workplace.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and therefore expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

If you have lived or worked abroad for 3 months or more in the last 5 years or 12 months or more (whether continuously or in total) in the last 10 years whilst aged 18 or over, please refer to the link below for details for how to obtain your Certificates of Good Character. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants

Unfortunately, at this time we are not able to offer sponsorship.

If you have completed the GM Elevate (Leadership Development) Programme please indicate this within the 'About You' or 'Supporting Statement' section of your application.

You're an applicant with disabilities and have previously been in or currently in care, a carer, someone who has served in the Armed Forces, or you've participated in the GM Elevate Programme, and you meet the essential criteria of the role, you are guaranteed to reach the first stage of assessment under our Guaranteed Assessment Scheme.

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