Support & Assessment Worker - Family Safeguarding
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 12 Ionawr 2026 |
|---|---|
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 11 Chwefror 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | Leicester, LE3 8RA |
| Cwmni: | Leicestershire County Council |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 6831 |
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Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: Victoria & Albert Hub, Loughborough, LE11 2EN and surrounding areas
Worker Category: Field Based Worker
Salary: £32,070 - £34,359 per annum (pro rata for part-time)
Working Hours: 18.5 hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 25th January 2026
Interview Date(s): 4th February 2026
About the Role
This post will support social workers to undertake thorough community family assessments, and where appropriate complete these, of children and prepare any necessary and relevant reports, and undertake reviews (as relevant) and specific pieces of work identified within the assessment including;
- To undertake parenting support and assessment programme with families experiencing significant difficulties.
- To undertake direct work with children and young people to meet their identified need.
- To complete parenting assessments to assess the ability of carer’s being able to meet the child’s long-term needs, this could be where there are concerns regarding a child’s welfare in their parents care or when we are in care proceedings needing to assess if the child could return to their parent’s care.
An enhanced DBS check is required for this post.
For information on our approach to the recruitment of ex-offenders, please see our policy statement.
About You
To apply for this post, you must have / be able to:
A Level 3 childcare qualification (NNEB / NVQ3) or equivalent.
- Be able to promote parenting skills through group work and to contribute to a programme of group work with parents experiencing difficulty in managing their children.
- Advise, guide and train parents in managing household affairs, practical child care tasks, and other means of providing for the care of children. This may involve flexible work patterns including early mornings, early evenings and occasionally weekends.
- To make observations with regard to the standards of care, and participate fully in the identification of possible abuse/injury/neglect of children and provide reports on such observations to social workers.
- To supervise, observe and monitor contact visits when parents are visiting children who are looked after when appropriate to assessment.
- To attend Case Conferences, Core group, Pre-Proceedings and other meetings as the worker involved with the family.
- To maintain accurate and up-to-date manual and electronic records as required by the department.
You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.
In addition, we expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the interview process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual’s personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Dhara Shiva – Team Manager
Telephone: 01163050117
To contact me by email, please click here .
How to Apply
Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity, and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services, we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ Plus communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the ‘About You’ section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.
To apply for this job, please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the ‘About You’ section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format, please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning 0300 3030222 (select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: https://emss.org.uk/support.
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