Warwickshire Children with Disabilities Team is seeking a part-time (18.5 hours) Family Support Worker to join the team on a permanent basis.
The Children With Disabilities Service is county wide and based across three core sites. The advertised post is primarily supporting the South Children With Disabilities Team with a typical office base of Shire Hall, Warwick (agile working arrangements, promotion of minimum 1 day a week office base for an 18.5 hours contract).
Focusing on strengths and utilising an asset-based approach, you will support and enable children and their family members to reach identified outcomes to meet their full potential and maximise the child / young person’s independence and wellbeing.
Now is an exciting time to be part of our team as Warwickshire begins to embed our Families First teams who support the young people in our County. Our approach is about locality working, multi disciplinary and multi agency teams that support the whole family. Building strong partnerships with local services, Health, Police and Education.
If you want to build strong relationships and connections with families, join Warwickshire’s Children and Families service. Click here to find out more about Warwickshire County Council’s Children and Families Service.
Our Offer to you includes:
1. Supportive managers who provide recognition and a robust supervision policy focussed on wellbeing and workload.
2. A Volunteering & Wellbeing Day in addition to generous annual leave and an additional day at Christmas.
3. We also offer a Refer a Friend package for some roles. Terms and Conditions apply
The Family Support Worker role based in the South Children with Disabilities Team - will involve:
4. Supporting Allocated Social Workers with specific pieces of direct work with disabled children and their families accessing intervention via Child in Need plans, Child Protection Plans, and Children In Care. This role includes offering direct work with children and young people and their families.
5. Support with visits and family time sessions where required.
6. Delivery of parenting programmes, sleep programmes and parenting approaches.
7. Undertake Carers Assessments
8. Contribute to social work assessments.
9. Co deliver information and support sessions for families and children within Children and Family Centres and the wider community who require support with a child / young person with a disability.
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For further information please see the Job Description and Person Specification below;
Family Support Worker
Working for Warwickshire – This is the difference you make:
Warwickshire County Council is a place where everyone feels valued, included, safe, supported, and welcome. Our people are at the heart of this vision, could you be one of them!
At Warwickshire County Council we are committed to ensuring Warwickshire’s economy is vibrant and supported by the right jobs, training, skills and infrastructure. Our people vision for Warwickshire County Council is a great place to work where diverse and talented people are enabled to be their best.
Your future matters to us, we provide a generous pension scheme which includes an employer contribution rate of typically around 19 percent per month, to help support your financial security during retirement. The scheme also offers a valuable package of benefits for members and their dependants. To find out more please visit: Warwickshire Pension Fund homepage – Warwickshire Pension Fund.
The benefits we offer include agile working, a valuable part of the pay and reward package for employees working in local government, generous annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays and an additional day at Christmas, and access to Vivup benefits and discounts platform.
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Additional Information:
Warwickshire County Council are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. Please be advised successful applicants will be subject to a range of pre-engagement checks, including a relevant Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS). In accordance with the DBS code of practice and our own policy, should an individual have a declared criminal offence an individual assessment will be completed. Warwickshire County Council adheres to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
The Fluency Duty is outlined in the Code of Practice on the English language requirements for public sector workers. The Fluency Duty for this role is Required. You must be able to speak and provide advice in accurate spoken English to the public.
Closing Date: 30th April 2026
Interview Date: 20th May 2026
Warwickshire County Council is committed to equality of opportunity for all employees and is keen to address areas of under representation in its workforce. Seemore