Family Support Worker, Locality Team

Directorate - Children and Young People's Services

Permanent, Full time, 37 hours per week

Now is the time to come and work for Rotherham Council Children and Young People’s Service. For more information about Rotherham Social Care jobs, please visit: https://www.rotherham.gov.uk/childrens-social-work-jobs

ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY

Rotherham is a child-centred borough. We provide OFSTED graded ‘Outstanding’ services to children and their families in borough. Our journey however does not stop here. To support our Social Workers, achieve our goal of providing outstanding services, we have created an opportunity for a Family Support Worker to join one of our 8 locality Social Work teams.

The candidate we are looking for will have passion for working with children and their families. You will come with bucket loads of enthusiasm and ambition to support and drive forward desired outcomes for children in borough. It will be important to be a good team player and where required, to work flexibly.

The FSW position will be aligned to one of the locality teams and will be non-case holding however, you will have lots of opportunities for direct contact with children and their families. The job role includes:

• Supporting social workers in their day to day tasks. Leading on non-statutory tasks for the children held within the team.

• Building on relationships with partners in the team’s locality area, to include schools, local services, charity organisations.

• Supporting team learning.

• Developing the confidence, skills, ability and knowledge of parents and other carers as individuals and in groups.

• Where appropriate, to support social workers to keep up to date with record keeping.

• Completing visits outside of statutory social work visits to support progression of the child’s plan. For example, testing safety plans are working or to complete bespoke pieces of work with the child or their family as agreed with the allocated social worker.

• To employ effective skills and coordination to ensure that vulnerable children and families have their needs met and that non-delivery by agencies is challenged and/or escalated to senior colleagues appropriately.

Your professional development is important to us. If you are successful in being appointed to the role, within your first months of employment we will complete a Professional Development Review together (which takes place annually) and explore your training and learning needs, alongside future career opportunities. Here in Rotherham, we have close links with our local universities, alongside opportunities for apprenticeships.

If you are interested and have experience of working with children and their families, this could be the ideal role for you. Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK, have experience of working with children and young people and a current DBS.

For a general discussion or more information contact Sara Smith, Locality Team Manager on sara.smith@rotherham.gov.uk

Closing Date: 22.11.2026

Shortlisting Date: 02.12.2026

Interview Date:07.12.2026

This post involves working with children and therefore if successful you will be required to apply for a disclosure of criminal records check at an enhanced level. Further information about the Disclosure Scheme can be found at www.gov.uk/disclosure-barring-service-check

Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.

Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council is committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce, and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and our customers, and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this position will be offered an interview. For further information, please visit our website.