Family Solutions Practice Supervisor

Family Solutions Practice Supervisor

Fixed Term, Full Time

£48,205 to £57,988 per annum

Location: Harlow

Working Style: Community-based worker

Closing Date: 26th July 2026

This is a 12-month Fixed Term Contract or Secondment Opportunity

We are a dynamic, passionate, supportive and vibrant team who provide intensive support to families, and we ensure that family empowerment is at the heart of our interventions. You will be joining a well-established and high performing team at a time when we are growing and evolving as a service.

The Role of Family Solutions Practice Supervisor

The postholder will work closely with the Team Manager to enable the Family Workers to continue to deliver positive outcomes for children, young people and the families we support as well as maintaining the effective working relationships that we have developed with partners. The role will involve you supervising staff from a range of professional backgrounds, supporting them to work creatively and innovatively. It also requires you to manage new referrals via a duty system making decisions about required actions and allocating work.

What you will need

• Professionally qualified in social work and registered with Social Work England. Ideally you will hold a practice educator qualification or be willing to work towards achieving one and have some supervisory experience.
• At least three years post qualified with evidence of post qualification development.
• Demonstrable skills in staff supervision and experience of developing good practice with staff through approaches such as coaching, joint working/observations, and reflective discussions.
• Experience of dealing with incoming referrals effectively, risk assessing and allocating tasks. Have an ability to problem solve in crisis.
• Experience of cases allocation, and safety planning.
• Ability to work effectively in partnership with a wide range of professionals, building relationships to promote safety of children and resolve differences.
• Commitment to practice improvement and able to utilise the principles of effective practice to improve outcomes for children and young people with a range of complex needs.
• Good presentation skills and be able to use these to represent the team (in the absence of the Team Manager) at locality strategic planning meetings.
• Working knowledge of children's service legislation and guidance; including understanding of current changes to early help / family help / Families First Partnership Programme

Once you've secured your role within Essex County Council you will receive many great employee benefits, including support for unpaid carers and flexible working arrangements to accommodate their needs.

At Essex County Council, we value integrity and ethical behaviour. We kindly ask that you embrace our code of conduct and the Nolan principles, including throughout the recruitment process. Your commitment to these standards helps us maintain a positive and respectful workplace for everyone.

The role requires you to be mobile throughout a wider operational area including travelling around the county of Essex and beyond, transporting service users and their belongings and to be able to do so in an emergency. Driving licence and car or the ability to meet the mobility requirements of the role through other means is essential.

As part of employment with Essex County Council (ECC) should your role require a DBS check you will be required to register with the DBS update service. The DBS update service ensures all registered DBS certificates are kept up to date and allows authorised parties to view the status of your certificate. This is an annual subscription, and you will be responsible for ensuring this is maintained. For further information on the DBS update service please go to

Essex County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.

If you have queries on this role or require anything further, please email