Family Support worker - #1699596

Family Support WorkerFull-time – 36.5 hours per week

We are seeking a compassionate, resilient, and experienced Family Support Worker to join our dedicated team, working with children and young people aged 8–18 and their families to prevent family breakdown and reduce the number of children entering care.

This is a challenging and rewarding role where you will provide direct, intensive support to families in their homes for a period of 4–12 weeks (and beyond, if needed). You will play a key part in a flexible crisis response service, working with families experiencing complex challenges, including:

• Domestic abuse, mental health concerns, parental or child substance misuse

• Child-on-parent violence

• Neurodiversity and trauma linked to abuse, loss, or bullying

You will use relational and evidence-based approaches including Non-Violent Resistance (NVR), Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP – PACE), and Mentalisation therapy to repair family relationships and reduce conflict.

• Provide weekly in-home visits to families (more frequently during crises)

• Complete weekly reports for each allocated family

• Attend statutory meetings and provide feedback on progress

• Participate in duty rota (1 day per week)

• Work primarily within the South team, with flexibility to support citywide if required

To succeed in this role, you must:

• Have direct experience working with both parents/carers and young people

• Be confident working in high-pressure, emotionally complex situations

• Understand and apply trauma-informed, therapeutic practices

• Be a car driver with access to a vehicle

• Children must be aged 8–18

• Must be open to a statutory social work team

• Support is provided to prevent care entry or support rehabilitation/transition plans back to family or friends

Why work with We do Social Work?

• New ‘Faster Pay’ service getting you paid more quickly
• Twice weekly payroll
• Free DBS and compliance service
• Your own dedicated friendly consultant with extensive social work knowledge
• Access to a wide selection of social work positions across the UK

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We Do Social Work is an equal opportunities employer and is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

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