Based at Lewis Lane Children and Family Centre, Cirencester and or Treetops Children and Family Centre, Dursley. This role requires staff to have a designated base, however, Family Action encourages a flexible approach (that includes working from home when this is optimal for your role) and enables you to work at your best and focus the majority of your time on the families you work with.

You will deliver targeted early help to families with children under 12, holding a caseload of approximately 12 families. You will also contribute to the development of a Family Hub approach across Stroud and Cotswolds by introducing children and families to a range of community settings and activities.

To be a lead on a specialised or thematic area within the service supporting children, young people and families.

The role involves weekly visits to family homes and other settings, acting as Lead Professional, completing early help assessments, and developing SMART plans, coordinating multi-agency Team Around the Family (TAF) meetings, implementing evidence-based interventions and programmes to improve outcomes for children and families.

Main Responsibilities:
• Direct Work: Deliver interventions to improve parenting, child development, and family functioning using evidence-based programmes and interventions. Apply child-focused, relational, and strengths-based approaches.
• Assessment and analysis: Undertake comprehensive assessments of need applying a range of underpinning social theory, including, attachment, social learning theory, social ecology and child development. Working in partnership with other involved agencies, to establish a shared understanding of the child and family’s needs, any existing or potential risk and incorporating the child’s voice.
• Compile comprehensive plans, keeping children at the centre at all times, whilst incorporating whole-family thinking to drive improved outcomes for children through family stability, parenting and positive relationships. Ensure plans are continually reviewed for their effectiveness and revised when needed.
• Multi-Agency Coordination: Lead TAF meetings and ensure integrated support from health, education, and social care partners. Attend multi-agency meetings as required and collaboratively with health, social care, community, education, police and other agencies as required.

We are committed to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in all that we do and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Intersectionality is important to us and we welcome applications from ethnically diverse communities, LGBTQIA+ candidates and disabled candidates. 

We are committed to increasing the representation of these groups at Family Action because we know that greater diversity will lead to even greater results for families and children and we strive for our workforce to be truly representative of the diverse communities we support.

All candidates with a disability are welcome to apply under the Disability Confident Scheme and request priority consideration for an interview, provided they meet the essential criteria for the role.

• Experience of working directly with children and their families; delivering evidence-based interventions and parenting programmes
• Knowledge and understanding of integrated working practices and a wide range of universal, targeted and statutory agencies working with children and families
• Excellent assessment skills, with the ability to produce effective outcome focused plans for children and families with complex needs. Ability to measure and evidence outcomes, including through the use of observation, triangulation of evidence, outcome measurement tools and continuous assessment.
• Appointments are subject to Family Action receiving a satisfactory disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service – Enhanced DBS level