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Bury Children’s Services - Family Support Worker
Bury Children’s Services is seeking a compassionate and resilient Family Support Worker to join the Kinship Support Team. The position is a fixed term for 12 months, working 37 hours per week, with occasional evening or weekend work. The role will provide practical, emotional, and therapeutically informed support to Special Guardians, kinship carers, children, and young people, helping to promote placement stability, strengthen family relationships, and improve children’s emotional wellbeing.
Key Responsibilities
- Work directly with families in homes, schools, and community settings
- Offer one-to-one support, family sessions, creative direct work, and advice around trauma-informed and attachment-aware parenting
- Contribute to support plans, promote children’s wishes and feelings
- Liaise with social workers, schools, health professionals, and partner agencies
- Respond appropriately to safeguarding concerns
Requirements
- Experience supporting children, young people, and families, including those with complex needs
- Knowledge of safeguarding, trauma, attachment, child development, Special Guardianship, and kinship care
- Strong communication, relationship-building, organizational, record-keeping, and IT skills
- Flexible, compassionate, and strengths-based approach
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Advantages
- Experience of working with kinship carers or Special Guardians
- Delivering group work or parenting programmes
- Supporting adolescents with emotional wellbeing needs
- Training in trauma-informed, therapeutic parenting, attachment, or restorative practice
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 ensures they grow up in the best possible way.
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We are committed to Bury being an equal society that recognizes 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 chat regarding the role, please contact Liz West or Amanda Dainton on 0161 253 6666.
Interviews will be held on 14 September 2026.
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