Family Time Worker
| Posting date: | 07 January 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 06 February 2026 |
| Location: | Stockport, SK5 8HH |
| Company: | inploi |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 75776587 |
Summary
Family Time Worker
Scale 6 (£31,537 - £33,699)
37 hours, Full-Time
Permanent
334 Brinnington Road, Stockport
Application Deadline: 22nd January 2026
Please be aware that we may close this vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
Shortlisting Date: 23rd January 2026
Interview Date: 29th January 2026 / 3rd February 2026
Interview Type: Face to face
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Your Role
We are looking for a committed and compassionate Family Time Worker to join our Family Time Service. This is a vital role supporting children and families across Stockport, ensuring they have safe, positive, and meaningful opportunities to spend time together.
As a Family Time Worker, you will provide a consistent, high quality service to families, delivering court directed and supervised family time within our contact centres, children and family centres, in the community, and occasionally within the family home.
You will also deliver trauma informed, targeted interventions to reduce risk for vulnerable families, support reunification plans, and help families build resilience through direct work, peer support, and signposting to wider services. This includes supporting families with children who have special educational needs or disabilities (SEND).
This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in both direct practice and the ongoing development of our service.
About You
We are looking for someone who:
- Is passionate about improving outcomes for children, young people, and families.
- Experienced in working with families, delivering direct support, and/ or facilitating supervised contact.
- Understands trauma informed practice and can apply it sensitively and effectively.
- Can build trusting relationships with families facing complex challenges.
- Has strong communication, observation, recording and report writing skills.
- Can work independently, manage competing priorities, and respond calmly to changing situations.
- Works well as part of a supportive, multi disciplinary team.
- Is committed to promoting inclusion, equality, and the rights of children and families.
About Us
At Stockport Council we are one ambitious team on a mission to create opportunities for everyone who lives, works and spends time in the borough. Working at Stockport Council means contributing to one of the most thriving towns in the North. We’re keen to recruit people with the right values and behaviours that can help us ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do.
We are proud to be recognised under the Good Employment Charter as an organisation committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues. As members of the charter, we have been recognised as a great place to work for all colleagues and pledge to pay the real living wage, engage staff in key decisions and endorse fair and flexible working conditions.
If you would like to find out more about the role please contact Alex Massey at alexandra.massey@stockport.gov.uk for an informal discussion about the role.
The successful applicant’s appointment will be subject to satisfactory pre-employment clearances including a Disclosure and Barring Service check.
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Please note that we have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers and ex-military personnel. As part of the Guaranteed Assessment Scheme you will therefore be guaranteed to be shortlisted for Assessment if you meet both the criteria for the scheme and the essential job role criteria.
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