Family Connections Worker - Warrington - Warrington
Permanent£24,000
Are you passionate about helping people rebuild their lives and strengthen relationships?
We're looking for a Family Connections Worker based in Cheshire to join our team. You’ll play a key role in the wider Personal Wellbeing Service, delivering tailored Family and Significant Others interventions to adult and young men in the Criminal Justice system.
As a Family Connections Worker, you’ll deliver client-centred support that adapts to each individual’s needs. You’ll be providing a blend of 1:1 and group interventions across the Family & Significant Others programme areas.
Your responsibilities will include:
* Managing a varied caseload with professionalism and empathy
* Completing assessments, developing care plans, and offering ongoing advice and guidance
* Delivering structured 1:1 and group-work sessions
* Building effective working relationships with partner agencies
* Contributing to key targets set by Forward, Interventions Alliance, and local commissioners, with a strong focus on outcomes
What We’re Looking For:
* Strong communication and relationship-building skills
* A proactive, client-centred approach
* Flexibility to work occasional evenings/weekends
* Willingness to travel within the Cheshire cluster (with notice) to support continuity of care
You’ll be part of a supportive team committed to improving wellbeing and strengthening family relationships for individuals in the Criminal Justice system. Your work will create real, lasting change.
Please see attached Job Description for full details.
About Us
We are The Forward Trust, the social enterprise with charitable status that empowers people to break the often interlinked cycles of crime and addiction to move forward with their lives. For more than 25 years we have been working with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past. We believe that anyone is capable of lasting change. Our services have supported thousands of people to make positive changes and build productive lives with a job, family, friends and a sense of community.
We are committed to our cause and the work we carry out as a charity. Equally the wellbeing and the employees who work for us are also important. Joining us an employee, we will offer you the following benefits -
1. Flexible working
2. Training and development opportunities
3. Simply Health Cashback Scheme (optional)
4. Season Ticket Loan Scheme
5. Cycle to work scheme
6. Crisis Loan Scheme
7. Electric Car Scheme
8. 3 x Wellbeing Days (pro rata'd for part time employees)
9. Access to Blue Light Card
10. 25 days (rising to 30 with length of service) Annual Leave plus