Family Practitioner Children's Disability

Looking for a change? Where you can make a difference to the lives of disabled children and their families?

We have 4 Children’s Disability teams across the County, and they provide specialist services for children and young people with complex disabilities.

We are a dedicated team of professionals who work with disabled children and their families across Staffordshire providing support and early interventions which have a positive impact on the lives of children and families and empower parents and carers to be confident in their role.

We deliver a restorative practice model that focuses on keeping families together through a community-based approach. If you’ve not worked in this way before, don’t worry – we’ll give you full training to bring you up to speed.

Working with us means collaborating across our different teams, and sharing best practice, knowledge, and experience to continually improve the way we do things. Support is important, as we work in a large county with some diverse challenges – but together we can meet all kinds of needs and demands.

You will working 37 hours per week but this may include some evening and weekend work.

Post 1: Newcastle – Covering Newcastle and Staffordshire Moorlands Districts.

Post 2: Stafford – Covering Stafford and South Staffs Districts.

Our Family Practitioners are key workers for the children and families we support.

You’ll be:

• Working together with social workers to support children in need, children on child protection plans and children in care.
• Home and school visits to complete focussed direct work with children & families.
• Supporting mediation, crisis prevention, conflict resolution and Life Story work.
• Supporting on the completion of accurate documentation, reports and records relating to work you do with children, young people and their families

And through all this great work you do, you’ll be supporting children and families, with a restorative practice approach, helping them stay together where possible.

You’ll need to:

• Have an NVQ Level 3 related to working with children and families OR relevant experience working with children and families
• Have an ability to engage and communicate with disabled children and their families.
• Be flexible with working hours as there will be occasions where evening work may be needed, and some weekend working.
• Have a current UK driving licence and vehicle

But above all, you’ll bring the desire to work with disabled children and their families to give them the right support, at the right time with the aim of keeping families together where it’s safe to do so.

“We’re happy to talk flexible working”

For an informal chat about this role, please contact either Elizabeth Holdcroft or Carole Walkland – Team Managers, on either 01785 276800 or email at: elizabeth.holdcroft@staffordshire.gov.uk or carole.walkland@staffordshire.gov.uk

Closing date 19th April 2026.

Successful candidates will be shortlisted and notified of interview slots by 21st April.

Interviews will take place on 27th April in Newcastle -under-Lyme.

Our Recruitment Process: We anonymise applications during shortlisting to ensure only relevant information is considered. Please complete your application fully, especially the supporting statement, to highlight what you’ll bring to the role.

We are no ordinary county council:

Our Values:

The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.

Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:

We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.

We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too.

Our benefits:

We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.

In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire

Our recruitment process:

As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities

As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Gold Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post.

As you’ll know safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people/vulnerable adults is important to us and that’s why this position is subject to a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service. If applicable you should disclose details of unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions in your application form.