Family Support Practitioner

Salary: £27,000 per annum, pro rata

Location: North Lanarkshire

Contract/Hours: Part time - 28 hours - fixed term until 31 March 2027

Closing date for applications: midnight of 15h May; interviews are scheduled for Thursday 21st May.

Benefits

• 29 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays, with up to 5 additional days for continuous service and option to buy or sell leave
• Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities
• Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages
• Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cover
• Staff discount portal and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailers discounts.

How you'll help to create brighter futures

Some key responsibilities of the Family Support Practitioner role will be:

• Understanding the issues impacting children and families in North Lanarkshire and have experience of supporting individuals through these issues using a strength based approach.
• Supporting FHANS to grow and change along with the community. A key part of the job is to develop relationships with local families and other organizations / agencies to ensure each family gets what they need at the right time.
• Understanding the needs of families across various localities within North Lanarkshire and offering groups and 1:1 supports to build on strengths
• Undertaking / co-producing strengths based assessments with families and identifying shared goals and outcomes.
• Running family groups in the local community (monthly).

Qualifications and experience

• HNC or SVQ 3 in social care or equivalent.
• Post-qualification experience of working with children, young people and families and achieving positive outcomes through direct contribution with support activities and interventions.
• Caring and compassionate and highly motivated, enthusiastic, committed, able to use your own initiative and able to build positive and supportive relationships with families.
• A sound knowledge of The Promise, in particular the Family Support Principles and Getting It Right for Every Child (GIRFEC) approach.
• Driving licence and access to a car. The job requires the ability to travel according to the needs of the job, with reasonable adjustments, if required, according to the Equality Act.

Good to know

Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.

Contact

Jessica Jarvis quoting reference 13080

Diversity, equality and inclusion

At Action for Children, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace.

Weactivelyencourageapplications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups in society and for Action for Children. Male staff are under-represented within our Children Service roles. We would like to encourage more male applicants for our Children Service roles.