Salary: £39,152 to £46,142 plus £7,000 per annum Market Forces Supplement (grade and salary subject to experience)
Working Hours: 37
Location: Cable Plaza, Waterfront West, Brierley Hill, Dudley
Closing Date: 17/07/2026
Job Type:
Sector: Local Councils
Business Unit: Children’s Services
Job Introduction
Grade 9 and Grade 10 posts available. Our developing Family Help service aims to provide targeted support to families so that children and families can thrive and more families can stay together. We recognise that providing the right type of support at the right time for families is key to working effectively and that lasting relationships with professionals is central to working alongside families and their networks. Working alongside families using our Restorative Model of practice, we use family‑led decision making strategies and Motivational Interviewing skills to help families access creative and targeted support packages that will help to develop meaningful and lasting change for families.
Our Family Help service is delivered through the ‘Family Safeguarding model’ which delivers a whole family approach to support. Social workers and Family Help practitioners coordinate the support offered to families drawing on the knowledge and skillset of experienced Child Practitioners; Drug and Alcohol practitioners; Probation Officers; Domestic Abuse Workers; and Mental Health Practitioners. The Family Safeguarding programme informs our direct work with families and our model of supervision is reflective group supervision involving those practitioners involved in supporting a family.
Our ambition is for more families to receive the support that they need from within their local community through our model of early support. We also provide an assessment service using a single assessment process and statutory child protection procedures, to work alongside families in assessing their needs and identifying the right plan of support for them.
- Co‑ordinate family support with interdisciplinary team members.
- Deliver family‑led decision making and motivational interviewing sessions.
- Conduct assessments and develop plans for families requiring child protection intervention.
- Participate in reflective group supervision.
We are committed to diversity and inclusion and will anonymise personal data during the application process.
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