Head of Family Support
| Posting date: | 13 February 2026 |
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| Salary: | £63,071 to £67,762 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 March 2026 |
| Location: | Kinross, KY13 8AQ |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Get Staffed Online Recruitment Limited |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | SPE-6691-2 |
Summary
Head of Family Support
Location: Base in Balloch, Kinross, Edinburgh or Glasgow with travel and hybrid working
Salary: £63,071 - £67,762 per annum
Contract Type: Permanent; Full-Time; 37.5 hours per week
Closing Date: 01/03/2026 23:59
The Vacancy
Lead a National Service That Changes Lives Every Day.
This is a rare opportunity to take on a newly created national role at the heart of our client's mission. Every week in Scotland, three children die from a life shortening condition. Our client is there for them, and for their families, providing unwavering, compassionate, specialist care.
Their Family Support teams include Senior Social Workers, Child and Family Workers, Play Specialists and other experts, working hand in hand with clinical colleagues across their two hospices, in hospitals, and in homes and communities across Scotland.
They are looking for an exceptional Head of Family Support to shape and lead the full breadth of these services - from child and family support and therapeutic activities to bereavement, spiritual care and financial wellbeing. Your leadership will ensure families receive holistic, responsive and trauma informed support wherever and whenever they need it.
About the Role
Reporting to the Director of Nursing and Family Support, you will:
- Provide strategic leadership across all their family support services.
- Lead teams across hospices, hospitals and community settings.
- Act as their Safeguarding Lead, offering expert oversight and driving safe, compassionate practice organisation wide.
- Champion continuous improvement, helping families make the most of their precious time together.
- Strengthen resilience and support families navigating life-altering adverse experiences.
About You
You will bring:
- Significant leadership experience in children's services, operating confidently at senior level.
- A professional social work qualification, with deep knowledge of GIRFEC, UNCRC and Scottish policy.
- Expertise in child protection, safeguarding, and adult support and protection.
- Experience leading multidisciplinary teams in emotionally complex environments.
- Excellent partnership skills, working across HSCPs, local authorities, NHS and the third sector.
- A compassionate, values driven approach that supports wellbeing, reflection and professional growth.
- Confidence in shaping high quality, impactful services.
- SSSC registration.
Why Our Client?
For the families our client supports, time is precious, and the work you lead will help families live it fully.
Their 2024 - 2028 Strategic Plan commits them to providing unwavering care from the moment a child is diagnosed through living well, dying well, and beyond into bereavement. As Head of Family Support, you will play a pivotal leadership role in bringing this strategy to life for their family support workforce shaping services, developing people, and ensuring the highest standards of safe, compassionate and effective care.
Our Client Offers:
- Broad national impact: Influence practice across Scotland and contribute to sector wide improvement.
- Flexibility: Based at one of their central sites (Kinross, Balloch, Edinburgh or Glasgow) with frequent presence in their hospices. They provide care and support to children and families across Scotland with staff bases in Aberdeen and Inverness. This role will require Scotland-wide travel to their sites, local authority and NHS settings and office locations, as well as attendance at external events. Flexibility is essential, and business mileage expenses will be reimbursed. As a family friendly organisation, they recognise that flexibility works both ways, and they will support a balanced and adaptable approach to working hours and locations wherever possible.
- Professional growth: A visible, national leadership role with space and support to excel.
- Generous holidays: 35 days, rising to 40 after five years.
- Pension: Opportunity to join the Local Government Pension Scheme for Scotland, administered by Lothian Pension Fund or continued membership of the NHS Scotland Pension Scheme (if applicable).
- Comprehensive benefits: Including life assurance, wellbeing support, employee assistance programme, discount schemes such as Blue Light and Perkbox, and incremental pay progression.
Further Information and How to Apply
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Provisional interview date: 31 March.