Senior Family Worker (Short Breaks)

The Service & Team:

The Senior Family Worker will be expected to have a knowledge of the needs of disabled children and their families; know about the difference that accessing short breaks can mean for the welfare of a disabled child and their family and be able to work alongside Family Based Short Break carers to support them in their caring role. The successful candidate will have excellent skills in communication and relationship-based practice; be able to identify risks both from carers and the environment and recognize signs of abuse and respond appropriately to any safeguarding or child protection concerns. The Senior Family Worker will undertake Family Based Short Break Carers statutory visits and carers reviews under the direction of the social work qualified Team Manager.

This role is to work predominantly in the West of the county but occasionally covering for other team members in the East.
This is a public/customer-facing role where the statutory English language requirement for public sector workers applies.

This position will be subject to an enhanced criminal record disclosure check.

Working Pattern:

This role is to work across the working week for 37 hours. Generally this is Monday Friday with 8.45 am 5.15 pm Monday to Thursday and 8.45 4.45 on Friday. Occasionally working outside of these hours might be needed in an emergency situation. However compressed hours will be considered.

What youll need to succeed:

Ideally the candidate will already be working at a Senior Family Worker level.

Please read the role profile for the full details of this role attached below in this advert

What youll get in return:

Induction and training will be provided.

Cornwall Councils ambition is to be an employer of choice a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.

Our core employee rewards and benefits include:

a competitive salary.

a defined benefit pension scheme based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions

a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave.

A national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme

Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services.

Additional Information:

Cornwall Council is unable to offer visa sponsorship or transfer existing sponsorship for this role.

The full role profile is attached here

We recommend saving a copy of this to refer to if you are invited to an interview.

For more information or an informal chat about the role please contact Tracey Strudwick at

Application Process

Please attach a supporting statement to your application you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. Remember to demonstratewhy you are suitable against each of the points marked as Application on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here The application process.

Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted please contact if you have any queries or require assistance with your application.

Existing employees must apply using their Cornwall Council email address through the Opportunity Marketplace on Oracle.