Family Support Worker – Higher Level | Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS FoundationTrust

Posting date:	18 December 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£27,485 - £30,162 per annum
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	17 January 2026
Location:	Leasowe, CH46 1PQ
Company:	Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	7618012/373-AAD0091

Summary

We have an exciting opportunity within the All Age Disability service for 1 Family Support Worker, one full time post, 37.5 hours.

This roles involve working directly with children and young people who have complex disabilities such as Autism and Severe Learning Disabilities and who at times present with challenging behaviours. You will support and enable these young people to access community-based activities, work alongside their families within the family home providing advice and support in all areas of family life. Provide specialist support in relation to the child’s disability. Work closely with all professionals involved with the family including the Social Worker, Health professionals and Education. You will be expected to attend all meetings in relation to the young people you support, write reports to support the Social Work assessments, including contributing to parenting assessments.

So if you have a passion for working with and enabling young people with complex disabilities to meet their full potential and work in a team who strive to make a positive impact with all the children, young people and their families they work with, this could be the new job for you.

Shortlisting for this vacancy is due to commence on 5th January and the proposed interview date is 22nd and 23rd January.

· To enable children and young people with complex and severe disabilities to access short breaks within their community.

· To offer advice and support to families of children with complex and severe disabilities and work alongside all partner agencies.

· To develop, monitor, implement and review the Service Provision Agreement in line with the child/young person’s Care Plan.

· To provide a flexible and person-centred service to the young person and their Carers.

· To develop and review Risk assessments for young people on your case load.

· To assist the Social Worker in the completion of Parenting Assessments, Child in Need Visits, agency referrals.

· To deliver training to partner agencies and families in relation to understanding disabilities.

· To provide early help intervention and support for families through the Early Bird Course.

· To respond to urgent support requests from Social Workers where intervention is focused on maintaining the child/young person remaining at home.

Special Terms - To work flexibly in accordance with the needs of the service which includes evening and weekend working.

At times our young people do present with challenging behaviours, full training is provided to support you with this side of the role. Having a good and proven understanding of behaviour and working in a person-centred way is essential.

Cheshire and Wirral Partnership (CWP) provides health and care services for a population of over one million people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all-age disability care, as well as the provision of three GP surgeries in Cheshire.

We employ around 4,500 staff across 73 sites and have services across Wirral and Cheshire, as well as Trafford, Warrington, Bolton, Halton, Liverpool and Stockport.

Our aim is to help improve the lives of everyone in our communities, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do. We are rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission, with a Good rating overall.

As a Disability Confident Employer, Rainbow Badge Scheme member, Veteran Aware organisation and proud holder of the Armed Forces Covenant Employer Recognition Scheme Gold Award, CWP is committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible and developing a culture that values differences, and welcome applications from people who have direct experience of accessing our services.
All new starters will commence in post on one fixed start date each month, in line with our Prepare to Care (P2C) induction programme date. P2C offers up to 3 weeks training to support you to meet the induction / initial training requirements of the role.

Whether you are just starting out in your career or looking to use your existing skills and experience in a new role, you’ll find something to suit you at CWP.

Please download a copy of the job description (see ‘documents to download’ section below) for full details of the main responsibilities for this role.

At CWP, our recruitment selection processes are based on both competence (see person specification for details) and values.

CWP recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust’s Values in their everyday life and we use a values-based approach in our interviews, which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.

Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trust’s Values and think about how these align with your own personal values. The supporting information section in your application should reflect your understanding of the Trust’s Values and associated behaviours and you should provide examples from your work experience and/or personal life which demonstrate these values through your behaviours.

An applicant guide to help and support you through your recruitment journey can be accessed at the bottom of this page. Further help and support for completing your application can be accessed via our website. If you need any further guidance to help you complete your application, contact our recruitment team via email at: cwp.recruitment@nhs.net or by calling 01244 393100.

If you have a disability that meets the definition set out in the Equality Act 2010, and you can show that you meet the ‘essential’ criteria described in the person specification for an available position, please answer ‘YES’ to the question: ‘Do you wish to be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme?’

Please inform the team if you have any special support needs to be considered as part of the interview and selection processes.

The trust offers a Guaranteed Interview Scheme to any armed forces community applicants who meet the essential criteria for the post and encourages applications from armed forces reservists or cadet force adult volunteers.

Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £16 per year applies.

New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.

Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date.

Good luck with your application. We hope to welcome you to Team CWP very soon!


This advert closes on Sunday 4 Jan 2026

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