Family Worker (Adolescent Support)

Posting date:	30 December 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	Competitive
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	29 January 2026
Location:	Oldham, OL1 1HD
Company:	inploi
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	75775281

Summary

Children and Families
Family Worker (Adolescent Support)

Ref: 001226
Contract: Fixed Term (12 months)
Salary: £31,537 £34,434 per annum (Grade 5)
Hours: 36.66 per week
Location: Spindles
Closing Date: Sunday 1st February 2026
Interview Date: Sunday 1st February 2026

Role Overview:

Working within a team, to undertake intensive casework support for children and their families. The focus of the job is to work in partnership with families who are experiencing challenging circumstances, in order to achieve positive outcomes and lasting change for the whole family. The post holder will have responsibility for holding cases and ensuring the coordinated support of other relevant agencies as required, including developing multi-agency support plans for families. Committed to using strength based creative approaches the post holder will build trusting relationships with families that enable challenge and support; they will help build resilience, self-reliance, and improve family life and children’s outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Carrying out assessments, in partnership with family members, to identify and understand the unique strengths, assets and challenges faced by the family and analyse this to create a plan of work;
• Contribute to multi-agency planning around the family, attending and contributing to multi-agency meetings relating to children and families, including those organised as part of social care processes;
• Where necessary, acting as an advocate for children and families, mediating where relationships are difficult within families or between families and professionals, and providing professional challenge to other services if required.
• Provide sustained support for family members to develop the skills which will enable them to improve their own independence and resilience and improve outcomes for their children.
• To work closely with the multi-agency partnership, such as schools, health services, youth justice, voluntary agencies and RISE to ensure the appropriate delivery of family support for adolescents and their families.
• To engage with children and young people, and families, using a holistic approach to include them in planning, decision making and goal setting. To empower children, young people and families to contribute to the development of the service through evaluation, consultation, and feedback of services provided.

Key Requirements:
To succeed in this role, you will be able to:

• Experience of providing direct support to children and families with complex lives which may include; mental health, offending, substance misuse, domestic abuse
• Good communication, negotiation and interpersonal skills to build and maintain effective working relationships with children, families and other professionals.
• Experience of using assessment tools to analyse family dynamics which inform bespoke plans and appropriate interventions based on evidence

If you have completed the GM Elevate (Leadership Development) Programme please indicate this within the ‘About You’ or ‘Supporting Statement’ section of your application.

Unfortunately, at this time we are not able to offer sponsorship.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and therefore expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

About Us:

We want Oldham to have vibrant, safe neighbourhoods where people are proud to live with opportunities for healthier, more fulfilled lives; and a sustainable, thriving economy. As we look to the future, the challenges may be significant, but so are the opportunities. We’ve identified three missions with our residents and partners, focusing on what will deliver the biggest impact:

A Great Place to Live, Healthier, Happier Lives, and Green and Growing.

We’re looking for candidates who will support us to achieve our ambitions and we encourage you to download our Corporate Plan: Ready for the Future and our Oldham Plan for further information.

Our Values and Behaviours:

By driving innovation, investing in our people, and championing our communities, we will ensure that Oldham continues to be a place where everyone can live their best life. To support this, we have three core values which define who we are and how we operate. These are ‘Proud, Ambitious, and Together’, and they shape our culture, inform our decisions, and inspire us to deliver on our commitments to the people of Oldham.

We have translated these values into five behaviours which guide our actions and are the standards we hold ourselves to, day in and day out:

• Work with a resident focus
• Support local leaders
• Committed to the borough
• Delivery high performance
• Take ownership and drive change

You can find out more about our values and behaviours on our greater.jobs Oldham page

Our Benefits Package:

At Oldham Council we offer a great benefits package for our employees, which includes the following:

• 25 days annual leave which increases after 5 and 10-years’ service
• The option to purchase additional annual leave.
• An attractive LGPS benefit pension scheme with the option to make shared cost additional voluntary contributions.
• Discounted gym membership with Oldham Active.
• Staff discount scheme for shopping, entertainment, eating-out, eating-in, travel, motoring and more.
• Salary sacrifice scheme for home and electronics and Cycle to Work.
• Wellbeing support, including a Mental Health First Aider network and an Employment Assistance Programme that provides 24 hours access to advice and support.
• Staff recognition and celebration events.
• Peer support groups

Inclusive Recruitment:

We work closely with employees to help them work at their best, including making adjustments such as flexible working, describing available working patterns, providing equipment or making changes to the workplace.

If you’re an applicant with disabilities, aged 24 or under and have previously been in or currently in care, a carer, someone who has served in the Armed Forces, or you’ve participated in the GM Elevate Programme, and you meet the essential criteria of the role, you are guaranteed to reach the first stage of assessment under our Guaranteed Assessment Scheme.

Data and Privacy:

For details of how we use your data please see our privacy notice.

Important Information:

Please note that should a vacancy that has been released for internal or external recruitment be deemed suitable for a current employee at risk of redundancy, it can be pulled back at any point, up to the post being formally offered to a candidate who is not at risk of redundancy.

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