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Family Support Worker

Job Description

🚀 Join Our Team – Family Support Worker (Durham)
📍 Location: Durham
⏳ Contract: 3 months initially, with the potential to extend
🕒 Hours: 37 hours per week, Monday–Friday

We’re looking for skilled and compassionate Family Support Workers to work alongside our social work teams, helping families create positive, lasting change.

Your Impact:
  • Provide tailored interventions to help parents develop and strengthen parenting skills.
  • Supervise family time sessions, ensuring children have safe, meaningful experiences with their families.
  • Keep detailed, accurate supervision records to support the wider social work process.
We Need Someone Who:
  • Has excellent organisational skills to manage a varied workload.
  • Can communicate clearly and effectively with children, parents, and professionals.
  • Writes clear, concise reports that capture essential information.
  • Puts children at the heart of every decision and action.
  • Can remain calm and constructive when managing conflict.
  • Owns a car with a full UK driving licence and business insurance.
Why This Role Matters:
You’ll be a vital link between families and the wider social work service—helping parents grow, ensuring children are safe, and making a real difference every single day.

📩 Apply Now: 
Contact Emily at Service Care Solutions:
📧 emily.bentley@servicecare.org.uk
📞 01772 208964

💡 Why join Service Care Solutions?
  • Your own dedicated consultant with in-depth social work sector knowledge.
  • Access to exclusive vacancies in over 200 local authorities.
  • Job alerts via email and SMS.
  • Twice-weekly payroll for fast, reliable payments.
  • £250 referral bonus – recommend someone and receive your reward after their probation!
Take the next step in your social care career – your work could change lives.