About The Role
Family Connections Worker – Warrington (Permanent, Full Time)
Location: Warrington
Salary: £24,000 per annum
Closing Date: 18 Dec 2025
Are you passionate about helping people rebuild their lives and strengthen relationships? We are 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 and Significant Others programme areas.
Responsibilities
* 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 and weekends
* Willingness to travel within the Cheshire cluster (with notice) to support continuity of care
Benefits
* Flexible working
* Training and development opportunities
* Simply Health Cash‑Back Scheme (optional)
* Season Ticket Loan Scheme
* Cycle‑to‑work scheme
* Crisis Loan Scheme
* Electric Car Scheme
* 3 x Wellbeing Days (pro‑rated for part‑time employees)
* Access to Blue Light Card
* 25 days (rising to 30 with length of service) annual leave plus Bank Holidays
* Contributory Pension Scheme: Employer matched contributions of up to 6% in the first two years of service and up to 9% thereafter
* Death in Service Payment (2x annual salary)
* Critical Illness Insurance (subject to qualifying criteria)
About Us
The Forward Trust is a social enterprise with charitable status that empowers people to break the often inter‑linked 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. We believe that anyone is capable of lasting change, and 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.
If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for the Forward Trust, please proceed through the following link to be redirected to their website to complete your application: careers.forwardtrust.uk/vacancies/460/family:connections:worker::warrington.html
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