Family Help Intervention Worker

Family Help Intervention Worker

Scale 5 (£14,298 - £15,510 per annum)

18.5 Hours, Part Time

Permanent

Hybrid - One Stockport Family Hub, 1 Garners Lane, Adswood

Application Deadline: 11:59pm 17th June 2026

Please be aware that we may close this vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

Shortlisting Date: 18th June 2026

Interview Date: 24th and 25th June 2026

Interview Type: Face to Face

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Your Role

As a Family Help Intervention Worker within our Family Help Team, you will provide effective interventions, both one to one and through group work with children and their families. We work with children from birth to 19, using evidence-informed approaches to support families to make changes in their lives. We work with families at an early help level. The focus of the family help offer is to ensure that families receive the right support, at the right time and children reach optimal development.

This is an exciting time to join our service, if this is for you, please see the Job Profile for further information.

About You

You will have experience of working with children and families demonstrating empathy and experience of building positive and sustained relationships to support effective change in challenging circumstances.

You will have experience in facilitating evidence-based programmes to work with parents, children, and young people to achieve positive behaviour change working to agreed targets and objectives and achieving outcomes.

You are passionate and committed to improving outcomes for Children and Families, always considering the voice of the child, young person in the context of the family and community functioning.

You will be committed to your professional development, take up the vast amount of learning opportunities on offer and be excited about being part of Stockport Family.

You will be working within Stockport Family which is an integrated Education, Health and Care service which puts children, young people and families at the heart of our provision.

At Stockport Council we are one ambitious team on a mission to create opportunities for everyone who lives, works and spends time in the borough. Working at Stockport Council means contributing to one of the most thriving towns in the North. We’re keen to recruit people with the right values and behaviours that can help us ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do.

We are proud to be recognised under the Good Employment Charter as an organisation committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues. As members of the charter, we have been recognised as a great place to work for all colleagues and pledge to pay the real living wage, engage staff in key decisions and endorse fair and flexible working conditions.

If you would like to find out more about the role please contact Avril Wyke via email ***email_hidden*** to arrange an informal discussion about the role.

The successful applicant’s appointment will be subject to satisfactory pre-employment clearances including a Disclosure and Barring Service check.

Stockport Council holds a Visa sponsorship licence but this can only be used for certain roles and this campaign does not qualify.

Please note that we have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers and ex-military personnel. As part of the Guaranteed Assessment Scheme you will therefore be guaranteed an interview if you meet both the criteria for the scheme and the essential job role criteria.

Find out if you meet the criteria here: https://greater.jobs/content/13405/greater-manchester-guaranteed-assessment-scheme.

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