Job Introduction
Job Title: Senior Family Help Worker (formerly Senior Early Help Worker)
Salary: £39,152 - £42,839
Location: Boston and South Holland, Lincolnshire, hybrid working with a nominated contractual base
Closing Date: Monday 15 June 2026
Interviews: Wednesday 24 June 2026
An opportunity has arisen for a permanent Senior Family Help Worker (formerly known as Senior Early Help Worker) to join the Boston & South Holland Locality Team within Future4Me.
About the Role
As a Senior Family Help Worker, you will play a key leadership role in delivering high-quality, targeted support to children and their families. You will provide day to day leadership, advice, and guidance to a team of Family Help Workers, a Youth Offending Worker and an Education Mentor ensuring effective and consistent practice across the service.
You will be responsible for developing, mentoring, and supervising staff, supporting them to deliver evidence-based interventions that improve outcomes for children and families. This includes overseeing and guiding work with complex cases, including the supervision and management of Youth Justice cases, ensuring appropriate interventions, risk management, and multi-agency coordination.
Working collaboratively with a wide range of partner agencies, you will help to strengthen community-based support, promote safeguarding, and drive best practice across the locality. You will also support the implementation of service developments and contribute to continuous improvement within the team.
About The Team
Future4Me launched Countywide in February 2019 and brought together the Council's core offer to adolescents by building on the Youth Offending Team, Youth Hub and Family Help. Situated within Children's Services, F4Me has re-designed the approach to working with children who are at risk of entering care in late adolescence; engaged in criminal activity or at risk of exploitation/harm by individuals outside of their family. The Future4Me Team works with children that fit the profile of need around these behaviours and circumstances as well as offering support and guidance to other professionals who have a key relationship with the child.
Designed in a Hub and Spoke Model, the Future4Me Team comprises of the existing Youth Offending Service together with Family Help Workers in locality teams.
Working within a trauma recovery approach and addressing the causes of the presenting behaviour and vulnerabilities, through multi-disciplinary co-operation, the local authority aims to provide safe spaces for our children and protect them from extra familiar harm.
The needs of children within the adolescent risk cohort are complex and wide ranging and are best managed through multi-agency/multi-disciplinary co-operation. These needs cannot be effectively addressed within a single agency approach and work best if supported by strong partnership and governance with all partners contributing fully. The service also provides additional resources around psychology and speech and language to ensure we address the root causes of behaviour to promote long lasting change.
This approach also provides for key risk areas, including the Joint Diversionary Panels, Child Exploitation and Missing and Youth Housing as well as an extensive community engagement offer through Youth and Community Development, Positive Futures and the Restorative Justice team.
What We're Looking For
Qualifications and Experience
- A recognised professional qualification in Youth Work (JNC recognised) or Social Work, or
- A Diploma in Careers Guidance or Level 4 Qualification in Guidance, or
- A Level 4 Diploma (or equivalent) in a relevant field related to working with children and families
Experience
- A minimum of two years’ post-qualification experience working with children and families
- Demonstrable experience of delivering targeted interventions and supporting complex needs
Skills and Attributes
- The ability to build and sustain positive, professional relationships with children and their families
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage effectively across diverse communities
- A commitment to delivering high-quality, evidence-based practice
We understand you may have questions or would like to find out more about working with us before applying. For an informal discussion, please contact Sharon Bryan, Practice Supervisor, on 07909 906644 or via email at sharon.bryan@lincolnshire.gov.uk.
Closing date: 15th June 2026
Interviews will take place on 24th June 2026.
PLEASE NOTE: It is imperative that your personal statement clearly states why you have applied, how you meet the essential and desirable criteria for the role as set out in the Job Description (attached on LCC jobs Site) and what you feel you can bring to this role, the team and the wider County Council.
Please refer to our Job Information Pack here to support you in your application.
Please be advised that this position may be subject to a criminal record check.
On occasion we receive significantly more applications than expected for some vacancies and under such circumstances we reserve the right to bring forward the closing date of the advertisement. We therefore strongly advise you to apply for the role promptly to avoid disappointment should the closing date be brought forward. Please also note: once an application is submitted it is final and cannot be amended. If you withdraw your application, it cannot be reinstated and you will not be able to submit another application for that vacancy. If you have an issue with your submitted application, please contact recruitment@lincolnshire.gov.uk.
We operate a talent pool scheme whereby candidates who are not successful on this occasion may be considered for a period of up to 3 months for equal positions.
Lincolnshire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
A Smarter Working Employer
We have embraced new ways of working and hybrid working will be a feature of this role. You will be given a nominated contractual work base and you will be required to commute to this work base when necessary. Working arrangements regarding hybrid working will be discussed as part of the appointment process.
Our technology platform and equipment is very good enabling you to connect and collaborate remotely. We require that you have in place good connectivity, and we will discuss during the recruitment process if support with this is needed.
Fluency Duty
In accordance with Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 (Fluency Duty), the ability to converse at ease with customers and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post.
Our values – collaborative, adaptable, eco-conscious, supportive, and responsible – guide everything we do. We’re looking for candidates who share these values and bring them to life in their work, helping us build strong teams and make a real difference in the communities we serve.
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