Family Support Worker
Service: Stroud and Cotswolds Children and Family Centre

Salary: £33,143 FTE per annum (pro-rata for part-time hours)

Hours: Option of full-time (37 hours per week) or part time hours - we offer flexible working arrangements, please see below for more details.

Location: Based either at one of our Family Hubs across Stroud and Cotswolds or working remotely across North Cotswolds.

We encourage a flexible approach (that includes working from home when this is optimal for your role) to enable you to work at your best and focus the majority of your time on families.

Red Lodge Children and Family Centre, Stonehouse, Stroud, GL10
Treetops Children and Family Centre, Dursley, Stroud, GL11
The Lodge, 47 Lewis Lane, Cirencester, Cotswolds, GL7
North Cotswolds – Remote with outreach across North Cotswolds

Contract: Permanent

Family Action & the Role’s Impact:
At Family Action we support people through change, challenge or crisis. It’s what we’ve done for over 150 years. We protect children, support young people and adults and offer direct, practical help to families and communities.

We see first-hand the power of family to shape lives, for better or worse, so we speak up for the importance of family in national and local policymaking, amplify family voices and represent the changing needs of families in the UK today.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the team and be part of the development of Family Hubs in Stroud and Cotswolds, being part of a team that supports children and families through universal provision and targeted family support.

You will deliver targeted early help to families with children under 12, holding a caseload of approximately 12 families. You will also contribute to the development of a Family Hub approach across Stroud and Cotswolds by introducing children and families to a range of community settings and activities.

To be a lead on a specialised/ thematic area within the service supporting children, young people and families.

The role involves weekly visits to family homes and other settings, acting as Lead Professional, completing early help assessments, and developing SMART plans, coordinating multi-agency Team Around the Family (TAF) meetings, implementing evidence-based interventions and programmes to improve outcomes for children and families.

Main Responsibilities:
• Direct Work: Deliver interventions to improve parenting, child development, and family functioning using evidence-based programmes and interventions. Apply child-focused, relational, and strengths-based approaches.
• Assessment and analysis: Undertake comprehensive assessments of need applying a range of underpinning social theory, including, attachment, social learning theory, social ecology and child development. Working in partnership with other involved agencies, to establish a shared understanding of the child and family’s needs, any existing or potential risk and incorporating the child’s voice.
• Compile comprehensive plans, keeping children at the centre at all times, whilst incorporating whole-family thinking to drive improved outcomes for children through family stability, parenting and positive relationships. Ensure plans are continually reviewed for their effectiveness and revised when needed.
• Multi-Agency Coordination: Lead TAF meetings and ensure integrated support from health, education, and social care partners. Attend multi-agency meetings as required and collaboratively with health, social care, community, education, police and other agencies as required.

Main Requirements (for details check the job description and person specification):
• Experience of working directly with children and their families; delivering evidence-based interventions and parenting programmes
• Knowledge and understanding of integrated working practices and a wide range of universal, targeted and statutory agencies working with children and families
• Excellent assessment skills, with the ability to produce effective outcome focused plans for children and families with complex needs. Ability to measure and evidence outcomes, including through the use of observation, triangulation of evidence, outcome measurement tools and continuous assessment.
• Appointments are subject to Family Action receiving a satisfactory disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service – Enhanced DBS LEVEL

Benefits:
- an annual paid leave entitlement that commences at 25 working days, rising each April by one day, subject to a maximum of 30 working days plus bank holidays.
- up to 6% matched-pension contributions
- enhanced paid sick leave and paid family leave provisions
- eye care and winter flu jabs vouchers
- cycle to work scheme
- investing in your professional development with ongoing quality training and career development opportunities

We are forward looking, ambitious and committed to continuous improvement. We are a people focused, can-do organisation, which strives for excellence in all we do and operates with mutual respect.

To Apply:
• Click the ‘Apply’ link below and fill out our digital application form
• Closing Date: Sunday 27th September 2026 at 11.59pm

For any queries, or if you would like to discuss any aspect of the selection process or the potential for flexible working, please email Mandy Massey: mandy.massey@family-action.org.uk

All appointments with Family Action are subject to satisfactory Safer Recruitment checks.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion:
We are happy to consider any reasonable adjustments that candidates may need during the recruitment process and you will be asked whether you require any adjustments if shortlisted for interview. We also make reasonable adjustments on the job, where required.

We are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in all that we do and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Intersectionality is important to us and we welcome applications from ethnically diverse communities, LGBTQIA+ candidates and disabled candidates. We are committed to increasing the representation of these groups at Family Action because we know that greater diversity will lead to even greater results for families and children and we strive for our workforce to be truly representative of the diverse communities we support.

All candidates with a disability are welcome to apply under the Disability Confident Scheme and request priority consideration for an interview, provided they meet the essential criteria for the role.

To help remove financial barriers to working with us, we will reimburse reasonable travel costs if you are invited to attend an interview in person.