Family Worker

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: 37 per week

Salary: NJC Grade F SCP 19-24 £32,061 - £35,412 per annum

Closing date: Wednesday 6th May 2026 at 23:59

This post is open to employees currently On Notice/At Risk and Internal.  Please note applications from employees currently On Notice/At Risk will be given priority. On Notice/At Risk employees should complete the application form as normal, upon submission you must email the Recruitment Team – recruitment@blackpool.gov.uk to ensure that your application form is marked as priority.

The Our Children and Carers Support team sits within the Supporting Our Children Service and is integral to supporting the children and young people of Blackpool to lead happy and healthy lives.

We are committed to supporting children to remain within their home wherever possible. This may be with parents, family members or any other carer. Our primary purpose is to ensure that children are protected from significant harm and their development and well being are promoted.

As part of our ongoing Improvement Plan we are determined to secure permanence, stability and security for Our Children.  In order to do this we need to take an innovative and creative approach to intervention and as such the team work with the principles of Solution Focused Practice to support where needed to ensure home stability.

The team structure is made up of a Team Manager,  Social worker and Family workers.   The team works alongside the statutory Supporting Our Children's Team social workers to deliver targeted intervention with a level of flexibility and creativity that is specific to the individual needs of the child, young person or carer. We will focus on developing their hopes and goals for their own lives in a strengths based approach to practice.  We will help them to identify their resources as well as the resources within their local communities. Our work can be either a short term or longer term intervention working with individuals or family units.

All of the team will be trained in Solution Focused Practice and as an authority we are committed to commissioning this training for any suitable candidate who demonstrates a wiliness to learn. 

Working flexibly may be required, on occasion such as early evening home visits with some weekend working (where pre-arranged with families). We also anticipate there may be the need for some telephone support/consultation on occasion. Staff will be reimbursed accordingly as per our Time Off In Lieu.

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We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children/vulnerable adults. This post is subject to satisfactory reference history of at least two years, Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check, medical clearance, evidence of any essential qualifications and proof of Right to Work in the UK in accordance with the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and amendments to the exemptions order, which mean that certain offences are ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed, guidance on the "filtering" of offences can be found at New filtering rules for DBS certificates (from 28 November 2020 onwards) - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)