Leicester City Council
Family Time Practitioner
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Family Time Practitioner
Job Overview
Full Time / 37 Hours Per Week / Fixed Term until March 2027
Potential extensions to post to considered nearer the time.
Are you a dedicated, energetic, and empathetic? We are looking for a Family Time Practitioner to predominantly supervise family time between children in care and their parents/carers and undertake parenting assessments within the family time, amongst other duties.
About Families Together
Families Together provides a flexible & quality service for children in care, their parents, carers, and Social Workers. We ensure safe family time between families and their children as well as educate parents to be able to provide the right care for their children, so that they can remain in their care or be returned to their care.
Role Description
We’re currently recruiting for one full time (37 hours) position for the role of Family Time Practitioner to be based within either of our two buildings however, you may be required to work across the city to attend meetings in relation to families, visit families in their homes and travel out of the county. You'll need to be flexible and willing to work on a rota basis between the hours of 7.30am to 6.30pm Monday to Thursday and 7:30-5:30pm on Fridays.
The team consists of 17.5 fulltime Family time practitioners, 2.5 admin operatives, one commissionaire and two-house keepers, there are 6 assistant managers and a Team Manager.
We are a large team who are united, we share the same vision as to why we are here, the child’s voice is paramount as is our drive to keep all children safe from harm.
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Our aim is to provide a safe environment for all children, where fun, creativity and laughter can be heard and seen, where our dedicated staff team use their shared skills so that “family time” is a time that everyone enjoys.
Responsibilities
As a Family Time Practitioner, you’ll:
- Supervise, monitor, assess and evaluate family time between children, parents, and other family members, which form part of wider assessment processes e.g. for Social Workers and the courts.
- Develop positive and sensitive relationships with children and their families, providing them with support, training, and advice on parenting skills within agreed programmes of work, including parent’s groups and work with them on a one-to-one basis.
- Maintain accurate written records of family time sessions, parenting assessments, as well as produce reports on a regular basis.
- Work closely with colleagues within Families Together, Social Workers, and other professionals to ensure that the Council’s statutory child protection/safeguarding duties are fulfilled.
- Share tasks of chairing team meetings, peer groups and reading out your reports within review settings.
Requirements
As the successful candidate you’ll need:
- Previous work experience working with children under the age of 8 years of age.
- Experience of working children and families from a variety of backgrounds.
- Knowledge in child development and how parenting impacts on child development as well as hold an NNEB certificate, NVQ Level 3 or BTEC Diploma in caring studies or equivalent.
- Ability to communicate in both formal and informal settings, and deal with people professionally at all levels.
- Ability and knowledge around a PC including IT systems.
- Your own car, a clean full driving licence and the right business insurance that includes carrying people/children.
- Great communication skills, ability to pick up on nonverbal communication as well as verbal communication and have the confidence to challenge when needed and knowing when that’s safe to do so.
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Benefits
As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can look forward to:
- A work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance.
- Generous annual leave.
- Membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme.
- Various training and development opportunities.
- Flexible benefits, including childcare vouchers, discounts on city buses and trains and help with relocation to Leicester, where appropriate.
- An illustrative value of your benefits package is available on our benefits calculator.
Join Us
We’re committed to recruiting a diverse and highly talented workforce as we continue to build a council that is fitting and representative of our great city. We’ll do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible. To help you with your application, take a look at the ‘our approach to recruitment’ page.
For an informal discussion, or further information regarding this job please contact Catherine Liquorish by email catherine.liquorish@leicester.gov.uk or call 0116 454 0076.
Interviews will take place WC 12th of October 2026.
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