Family Support Parenting Practitioner

This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.

• Job Title: Family Support Parenting Practitioner
• Job Location: Gloucestershire
• Salary: £34,237 - £37,563 per annum
• Hours per Week: 37.00
• Contract Type: Fixed Term
• Duration: 18 months
• Closing Date: 04/10/2026
• Job Requisition Number: 14542
• This post is open to job share

Join our dedicated team in Children's Services and make a real difference in the lives of children and families across Gloucestershire.

We are currently recruiting for a Family Support Parenting Practitioners to join our Intensive Intervention Teams across Gloucestershire (Forest of Dean).

About us

For all your hard work, you will receive the following:

• flexible and agile working opportunities
• 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years continuous service
• an option to purchase 10 days of additional leave per year
• family friendly policies and benefits to help support you and your family
• a supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision
• Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
• access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone.
• an in-house Occupational Health service
• employee discount scheme
• cycle to work scheme
• links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) and the Young Employees Network
• career development and qualification opportunities

Right child, right support, right time, every time

In our recent inspection in June 2025, our Children’s Services have been officially judged as ‘Good’ with ‘Outstanding’ elements. Ofsted also said ‘Leaders have set out a clear vision for delivering success for children, by modelling values and creating a culture where the workforce, children and families feel valued and heard; risk is managed confidently with bottom lines clearly set out.’

This marks an important step in our journey to improve outcomes for our children and young people, and we remain focused on our mission: to continue building on this success and ensure that every child and young person in our county has the opportunity to thrive.

Gloucestershire offers a range of opportunities to develop your career, supported by a phenomenal Social Work Academy offer, a developing systemic practice methodology, an ambitious leadership team and an award-winning workforce. We are a local authority adopting, and training all colleagues in, systemic social work practice.

We are an authority that takes a relational approach to working with families and focuses on what needs to change in the system around a child and family to enable children to thrive.

About the role

You will deliver impactful parenting interventions both online and within communities across Gloucestershire.

In this role, you'll work with high-need, complex families using a family intervention approach. You'll be responsible for evaluating progress and documenting outcomes through detailed reporting.

Collaboration is key—you’ll work closely with a wide range of agencies and organisations to ensure families receive coordinated and well-planned support.

Your work will focus on early intervention, helping families to manage challenges before they escalate, and reducing the need for referrals to social care services.

About the team

You will be part of a newly established, multi-disciplinary team which has been created as part of the Families First Partnership Programme, working alongside colleagues from other disciplines as part of Family Help.

The role is hybrid with days working from home and from your office base.

Please note that this role may involve working some evenings and weekends.

About you

As well as your experience working with children, young people, families, and communities, delivering a range of interventions we would also expect applicants to have:

• experience with multi-agency assessments and plans is essential.
• a full driving licence and access to a car are required
• level 3 qualification (or equivalent experience)Please note that this role may involve working some evenings and weekends

If you would like to find out more about our Children's Service please take a look here: https://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/csw-jobs/

How to apply

If you feel you have the skills, desire and experience required to make a positive difference then please submit your application and personal statement today by clicking the “Apply Now” Button.

For an informal discussion about the role please contact Kelly Mitchell via email at Kelly.Mitchell@gloucestershire.gov.uk

Closing date 04/09/2026.

Short-listed candidates will be contacted by e-mail and invited to interview.

We reserve the right to close an advertisement earlier than the stated closing date if we receive a suitable number of applications.

Under the terms of our Safer Recruitment Policy, if you are invited to interview, we will take up safeguarding references prior to your interview to understand your suitability to work with vulnerable children. These references will then be discussed in your interview. Please give details of at least two referees, one of whom must be your present and/or last employer and the other from a previous employer(s). These will need to cover the last three years of employment/education. In the case of applicants leaving full time education or not having worked since doing so, the Head of School, College or University should be one of the named referees. We do not accept references from friends or family members or workplace colleagues (who are not more senior). To ensure we process your application in a speedy and efficient way, we will contact your referees by DocuSign. Where appropriate, please inform them of your application.

Additional Information

To access the Job Profile for this role, please follow the link below:-

Family Support Parenting Practitioner - Job Profile

This position is subject to a DBS check.

The council is not currently able to offer sponsorship in this role. Candidates will need to have right to work that enables them to commit to at least 6 months employment. Right to work is not transferable from a sponsored role held with another employer.

Applications from any Gloucestershire County Council's employees who are currently on the redeployment register or at risk of redundancy will be considered first at shortlisting stage.

Gloucestershire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people or vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We want to be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining excellent people to work for us, so that we can best serve all of Gloucestershire’s diverse communities. Our promise to you is that we will provide an inclusive and supportive working environment that enables you to bring your whole self to work and realise your full potential.

It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a ‘customer facing role’ must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.

Hybrid working arrangements are available for the majority of our roles, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of both remote and office working.