About the Team:
North Warwickshire Family Help Team are looking for an experienced and dedicated family support worker looking to make a difference to join our County Wide Parenting Practitioner Team.
Now is an exciting time to be a part of our team as Warwickshire has been chosen as one of the seven areas to deliver the Families First for Children Pathfinder Programme. Join us to help shape and influence the future of children's social care together. Find out why we are good Ofsted.
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:
* Supportive managers who provide recognition and a robust supervision policy focussed on wellbeing and workload.
* A Volunteering & Wellbeing Day in addition to generous annual leave and an additional day at Christmas
* We also offer a Refer a Friend package if you\'re talking about a return to us with an ex colleague/friend.
About the Role:
We are recruiting for the role of Senior Family Support Worker in our Parenting Practitioner Team on a fulltime permanent basis.
Warwickshire’s Parenting Practitioner’s Team brings together experienced family support workers and social workers that parents, carers and families can work with to achieve successful outcomes and sustained change in their own lives.
An opportunity has arisen within the service for a family support worker to join the team to complete specialist assessments across the county including capacity to change, pre-birth assessments and parenting assessments to assist good decision making.
* Work collaboratively with parents, children, young people, social workers, FSWs and others to complete specialist assessments.
* To work with the case management social worker where possible on completing the assessments and where, to ensure there is a clear agreed purpose and outcome for the assessment.
* Identify and lead the implementation of support to parents to enable them to safely parent, during the assessment process.
* Write coherent and succinctly in line with WCC & Family Court rules.
* Manage and lead understanding of risk and work collaboratively to make recommendations and implement safe parenting plans.
* Be confident in presentation of assessments, with clear evidenced based rationale
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Key Requirements:
Applicants for the role will need a Relevant Child and family qualification to Level 3 with evidence of substantial experience as a family support worker or a NVQ Level Four or equivalent qualification in a relevant Child & Family / Youth Justice subject
If you want to build strong relationships and connections with families, join Warwickshire’s Children and Families service.
For further information please see the Job Description and Person Specifications attached
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.
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.
To discuss the role please contact Jay Olukoya, jayolukoya@warwickshire.gov.uk
Closing Date: 13th October 2025
Interview Date: Week beginning 13th October 2025
Should you require application forms in an alternative format / language or any adjustments to be made throughout the application process or upon appointment, please contact hrandpayroll@warwickshire.gov.uk and we will make every effort to meet your specific requirements.
Warwickshire County Council is committed to equality of opportunity for all employees and is keen to address areas of under representation in its workforce. See more
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