Family Support Worker

Family Support Worker Salary: 26,000 to 28,500 per annum (dependent on experience) Service: Residential Family Assessment Centre Reports to: Senior Practitioner / Lead Practitioner / Deputy ManagerRole PurposeThe Practitioner role represents a progression from entry-level practice and requires increased autonomy, professional confidence, and responsibility within the organisation therapeutic residential family centre. The post holder plays an active and integral role in supporting mothers and babies, contributing directly to structured parenting observations and assessments, and maintaining high standards of safeguarding and recording practice.Practitioners are expected to demonstrate a sound understanding of trauma-informed care, attachment, and risk, and to apply this understanding consistently in day-to-day practice. The role requires the ability to balance emotional support with appropriate professional challenge, promote parental capacity and resilience, and contribute meaningfully to assessment evidence that informs decision-making for families.The Practitioner supports the organisations overarching aim of safeguarding babies, strengthening early attachment, and supporting parents to make sustainable change within a therapeutic and assessment-led environment.Key ResponsibilitiesCare, Support and Therapeutic Practice Support mothers and babies in their daily routines in a manner that is safe, nurturing, predictable, and emotionally containing Actively promote parental ..... full job details .....