Children and Young People Family Connect Senior Family Worker Ref: 001349 Contract: 1x Permanent / 1 x Fixed Term (2 years) Salary: £34,434 - £38,221 per annum (Grade 6) Hours:
36.66 per week Based: Spindles Offices (Permanent) / North West district Chadderton and Royton district hubs (Fixed term) Closing Date: Monday 16th March 2026 Interview Date : TBC.
Role Overview
Working within Oldham Council’s Family Connect 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.
Commitment to safeguarding
Oldham Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
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.
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.
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