Keeping Families Together Family Practitoner
| Posting date: | 14 January 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 February 2026 |
| Location: | Bury, BL9 0SW |
| Company: | inploi |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 75778673 |
Summary
Family Practitioner: Keeping Families Together Team
Location: 3 Knowsley Place / Town Hall, Bury
Hours: Full-time (37 hours per week) flexible working between 7am and 8pm, Monday to Friday, plus Saturdays on a rota basis
We are looking for passionate and committed Family Practitioner to join our Keeping Families Together team within Bury Children’s Social Care and Family Help Service. This innovative service provides short-term, intensive support to children, young people, and families experiencing multiple and complex challenges.
Our goal is to prevent family breakdown and help children remain safely within their family network.
As a Family Practitioner, you will hold key worker responsibility for families, delivering bespoke interventions. You will work flexibly and creatively to rebuild relationships, reduce risks, and promote sustainable change. This is a unique opportunity to make a real difference to the lives of children and families in Bury.
What You’ll Do
- Work directly with children (aged 818) and their families to prevent accommodation or breakdown of care arrangements.
- Undertake whole-family assessments and co-produce SMART plans with families.
- Deliver practical, evidence-based interventions to address identified needs.
- Support families in acute distress, using de-escalation strategies to avoid emergency care situations.
- Build strong relationships within families and their wider networks to promote resilience and independence.
- Work closely with social work teams, as well as partner agencies, to ensure a whole-family approach.
We’re looking for someone who:
- Has a Level 3 or above qualification in Health, Social Care, or a related field.
- Has significant experience working with vulnerable children and families.
- Understands child development, safeguarding, and trauma-informed practice.
- Can work flexibly, including evenings and weekends, to meet family needs.
- Is skilled in building relationships, motivating families, and delivering positive outcomes.
- Be part of a dynamic team making a real impact in Bury.
- Work in a supportive environment with access to training and development.
- Enjoy flexible working hours and enhanced weekend payments.
- Car user allowance and mileage reimbursement provided.
About Bury
The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. Appointment may be subject to a satisfactory disclosure at the appropriate level under the Disclosure and Barring Service.
In line with safer recruitment, please ensure that your application/CV covers your full employment history and there is a reason noted for any gaps in employment. Successful candidates will be asked to provide relevant references for the past ten years and character references will not be accepted.
Please note we are unable to support with sponsorship at this time.
As a Corporate Parent, ensure that the work and services you deliver considers our care experienced young people, promotes their life chances empowers them to influence the policies, services, and decisions that affect them, champions their rights, and ensure they grow up in the best possible way
Benefits of working for Bury Council
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We support employees to work with agility, where appropriate for the post and service requirements.
We are committed to Bury being an equal society that recognises values and embraces all people, regardless of any difference, for the skills, abilities and experiences they bring into the workforce and the wider community. Therefore we guarantee an interview for disabled people, looked after children/ care leavers, armed forces personnel (including reservists and veterans) and carers of adults or disabled children if they meet the essential criteria.
If you have completed the GM Elevate (Leadership Development) Programme, please indicate this within the ‘About You’ or ‘Supporting Statement’ section of your application.
Next steps
For an informal discussion, please contact Sam Massingham via S.Massingham@bury.gov.uk.
Supporting Documents
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