Senior Family Worker

inploi; Oldham; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

A local council is seeking a Senior Family Worker to manage caseloads for families with complex needs, ensuring coordinated support and effective assessments. The ideal candidate will have substantial experience in service delivery for families and a strong ability to communicate with partner organizations. This role offers competitive salary and a commitment to safeguarding vulnerable children and families.

Benefits

25 days annual leave

Pension scheme

Discounted gym membership

Wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Substantial experience of assessing and analysing the needs of children and families and implementing programmes of support.
• Extensive experience of working within a service delivering support to families with complex lives.
• Ability to communicate effectively and work in partnership with various organizations.

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for an allocated caseload of families with complex needs.
• Lead multi-agency meetings and coordinate support plans.
• Perform holistic assessments in partnership with families.

Skills

Assessing and analysing needs

Effective communication

Building trusting relationships

Job description

Children and Young People Early Help Senior Family Worker

Ref: 001093

Contract: Fixed term (12 months)

Salary: £34,434 - £38,220 per annum (Grade 6)

Hours: 36.66 per week

Based: Central District

Closing Date: Sunday 16th November 2025

Shortlisting & Interview Dates: TBC.

Role Overview

Working within Oldham Council’s Early 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

• 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.

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

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 our 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.

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

Data and Privacy

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Important Information

Please note that should a vacancy that has been released for internal or external recruitment be deemed suitable for a current employee at risk of redundancy, it can be pulled back at any point, up to the post being formally offered to a candidate who is not at risk of redundancy.

While we embrace the use of AI as an innovative tool to maximise our services at Oldham Council, we are looking for authenticity in applications we receive. We therefore ask you to think carefully if choosing to use AI when completing your application and ask that you ensure you read all instructions carefully and that your application is written by you and reflects your skills, knowledge and enthusiasm.

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