Senior Family Support Worker
We are looking for a Senior Family Support Worker to act as a keyworker delivering packages of support with children, young people, and whole families to prevent escalation to more intensive services.
Join South Birmingham’s locality-based counselling service operates from community hubs and outreach venues including GP practices, community centres and Family Hubs across Edgbaston and Northfield.
Position: Senior Family Support Worker
Location: Edgbaston & Northfield Districts/Hybrid
Hours: 37 (9 – 5 Monday – Thursday, 9 – 4:30 Friday)
Contract: Full Time - Fixed Term until March 2027
Salary: £30,000
Benefits: The provision of workplace wellbeing support and activities, hybrid working where the role allows, flexible working and a range of family friendly policies.
Closing Date: 26th April 2026 (Midnight)
Interview Date: 5th May 2026
The Role
Working with families in a person-centered way, you will help people on your caseload to make positive changes and to develop the skills to manage their issues in the future.
You will work within the Early Help Locality multi-disciplinary team to provide a timely and frontline response to the needs of children, young people, and their families, acting in accordance with local policies, procedures and priorities.
As an Early Help Senior Family Support Worker, you will have responsibility for practice development. You will work at an operational level with the Service Manager to provide support to the Family Support Worker Team.
You will carry a reduced case load, demonstrating a strong practice base that can be role modelled to staff. In addition, you will need to promote inclusion and demonstrate a sound knowledge of safeguarding and quality assurance.
Duties and responsibilities include:
- Leadership & Operational Support
- Practice Development
- Direct Work With Families
- Partnership Working
- Recording & Administration
- Safeguarding
About You
We are looking for someone with a level 3 Qualification in relevant area (Health and Social Care, Family Worker or similar) and experience of:
- Delivering outreach or one to support work.
- Supporting families and individuals with complex support needs
- Forging links and establishing relationships with partner agencies
You we also have knowledge of VCSE organisations within the locality and support available for families and good administration and record keeping skills.
About the Organisation
Our client is leading provider of services to the health and social care sector, with the aim is to reduce inequalities in learning, employment and health. As an employer the organisation is proud to offer a range of benefits to staff including provision of workplace wellbeing support and activities, flexible working and a range of family friendly policies and subsidised parking.
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Please note this role is advertised by the recruitment agency acting for the client, Not For Profit People.
Trafford Neurodiversity Hub
Senior Navigator Role
Are you passionate about neurodivergent children and young people and their families having the right support, at the earliest point? We are proud to be developing and delivering the Trafford Neurodiversity Hub and are seeking a highly skilled and experienced practitioners to be the senior navigator.
To be successful, you will need to have the following:
- Significant experience in supporting children with neurodiversity.
- The ability to ensure the 'voice' of the child and family is central, enabling lived experience to create change.
- Excellent team working skills. You will work as part of a service that covers the whole of Greater Manchester.
- The ability to collaborate with and confidently present information to a range of people including the delivery of workshops.
- Excellent communication skills, enabling communication with children, young people, families and professionals.
- Robust safeguarding knowledge and good recording skills.
- A car available for work with business insurance.
There are lots of opportunities to develop your skill set, knowledge and career progression going forward.
This service is dynamic, no two days are the same, we work flexibly to meet the needs of the children and families so whilst there is a Monday to Friday working pattern you will be working some evenings and if required occasional weekends. In return you will manage your hours so may benefit from later starts or earlier finishes.
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Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible.
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