Family Worker - Level 1
Team: 0-12 Family Service
Job Family: Supporting - CBG7
Salary: £28,598 - £31,022 per annum
Hours: 37 hours per week
Location: Dunstable Locality Children's Centre
Contract: Fixed - Permanent
Closing Date: 3rd June 2026
Interview Date: 12th June 2026
About the role
In our Children and Families directorate, we aim to give every child excellent care and a promising future. By supporting families and keeping children safe, we're helping to make CBC a great place to live. As a Family Worker, you will be critical to the success of the 0 - 12's Family Service and in the delivery of The Best Start In Life Family Hubs. Find your greatness as you provide universal support, groupwork and early intervention approaches to empower families and improve outcomes.
In this important and varied role, you will be part of a team offering a welcoming and accessible service that meets and adapts to local needs. Day to day, you will be working with other agencies to offer a range of drop ins, groups and programmes that support children's emotional, social, cognitive and physical needs, keeping an eye on risk to ensure they are safe. You will support families to help themselves by working with them to identify their needs, suggesting support and services, and enable them to achieve their goals.
You will have a relevant qualification, and will be a confident and resourceful worker, experienced in individual or group work with children and families. You will have good knowledge around safeguarding policy and practice and strong self organisation skills enabling you to plan, implement and evaluate activities and interventions.
You will be working as part of an established Children's Centre working across the two main bases in the Dunstable Locality area as well as supporting service delivery across the whole authority area and will need a positive and flexible attitude towards change as the team and service develop.
Our Offer
We have a number of rewards and benefits available to our staff, to view these please visit our Rewards and Benefits page
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You will be expected to demonstrate how you meet the key accountabilities and competencies in this Recruitment Pack.
Our Competency Framework and Qualification Guidance are to be read in conjunction with our Recruitment Pack.
For an informal discussion about this position, please contact: Claire Roberts at Claire.Roberts@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk or call 0300 300 6084.
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Safeguarding:
Central Bedfordshire Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all employees, volunteers and contractors to share this commitment. This post is subject to the disclosure of criminal records.
To maintain a fair and consistent approach for applicants, it is Central Bedfordshire Council's policy to only consider applications made via our online application system and we therefore thank you for not submitting your application offline.
Our National Careers Service team offer a free monthly workshop covering CV writing and how to complete the statement sections of the Central Bedfordshire Council online application form. This MS Teams workshop is open to anyone from the UK and lasts around 1.5 hours. Please book your place here.
More information about this service can be found here: Support getting into work or learning | Central Bedfordshire Council
Please note we are unable to offer sponsorship for our roles. Successful applicants that may require a visa will need to consider the options for obtaining and/or maintaining the legal right to live and work in the UK for the duration of the contract offered.