Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: Hinckley Family Hub, Granville Road, Hinckley, LE10 0PP
Salary: £46,110 - £50,079 (inclusive of market premia at £2,250) per annum (pro-rata for part-time) (Pay award pending)
Working Hours: 37 hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 17th May 2026
Interview Date(s): 26th May 2026
About the Role
Family Help is Leicestershire’s Child in Need service, where both Social Workers and Keyworkers (AQWs) engage, support and encourage families to make positive changes in their lives.
Family Help focuses on strong and consistent professional relationships, responding more quickly and intensively to families so that they get the right help at the right time. Building on workers’ capacity to listen, understand and respond to trauma, and supporting children and families to build strength, resilience, confidence and parenting capacity. By unlocking the potential of family and community networks, we aim to support more children to stay safely at home, and when this is not possible, to remain with wider family and friends.
By supporting staff through regular reflective supervision, ensuring positive training and career pathways, staff embrace this more intensive way of working and remain in post longer, providing our families with the professional consistency they need, want and deserve.
As part of our Family Help Service, we have a Senior Social Work Oversight Practitioner vacancy, who will support the Team Manager in ensuring that a high-quality Child in Need service is provided for children and their families.
We are currently developing our approaches in Leicestershire to implement the national Family First Partnership Programme reforms, so this role may be subject to change and review.
An enhanced with barred list DBS check is required for this post.
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We want a creative and supportive worker who will provide Social Work oversight on Child in Need cases allocated to alternatively qualified staff (Keyworkers), to support progress of plans and intervention to families in their homes. To ensure that Child in Need meetings are child focused, that children’s voice is central, and that their participation and contribution is maximised, along with that of their parents and carers, so that we achieve effective plans and best/sustainable outcomes. This involves direct Social Work practice, when cases held by Keyworkers escalate or are subjects of private law processes – this is to avoid having additional Social Workers involved with families.
About You
To apply for this post, you must:
1. Degree in Social Work approved by the Social Work England (SWE) or equivalent social work qualification. Certificate of Qualification in Social Work or Diploma in Social Work. The worker must also be registered with Social Work England.
2. Experienced level 3 social worker in a children’s social work team.
3. Experience of working in access/duty/intake; children in need, child protection, care proceedings, safeguarding, and looked-after children work.
4. Experience of undertaking Section 47 enquiries.
5. Experience of chairing complex meetings and ensuring child voice is heard, and their participation and contribution is maximised, along with that of their parents/carers.
6. Experience of using performance indicators to monitor and improve performance.
7. Experience of multi-agency working, of challenging partners, of holding them to account, and of encouraging action
In addition, we also expect you to share and to delivering accessible and inclusive services which meet the needs of all of our residents. You will be asked to demonstrate your understanding of these commitments as part of the selection process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability. We are a .
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are open to discussions about flexible working, which may include part time working, job sharing, term-time working, flexible start and finish times, and hybrid working, depending on the requirements of the role and the service. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Rebecca Woollock - Service Manager Family Help
Telephone: 01163055222
Email:
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