Family Support Parenting Practitioner

Right child right support right time every time

In our recent inspection in June 2025 our Childrens Services have been officially judged asGood 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 youll work with high-need complex families using a family intervention approach. Youll be responsible for evaluating progress and documenting outcomes through detailed reporting.

Collaboration is keyyoull 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 supporting and friendly team who work alongside the Triple P team within Early Help in the Families First Team.

The role is hybrid with days working from home but it is expected that you will be office-based at least once a week (currently on Thursdays) in either the Stroud or Gloucester locality office.

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 have any questions about the role please email

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

If you would like to find out more about our Childrens Service please take a look here:Childrens Social Care Careers Gloucestershire County Council

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.

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/ 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.