Family Help Practitioner

Terms and Conditions: Full time, 3x Fixed-Term until March 2028, 37 hours per week. 1 Fixed Term until March 2027 18.5 Hours.
Department: People, Childrens
Interview date: 4th December 2026.

We are looking to recruit 4 new Family Help Practitioners to be part of a team driving national reform and shaping the future of family support!

Are you ready to play a pivotal role in transforming how children, young people, and families are supported?

This is your opportunity to join us at a truly exciting moment! We’re embracing the national Family Help reforms with ambition, creativity, and a relentless focus on what matters most: delivering the right support at the right time.

As a Family Help Practitioner, you’ll be at the heart of this change. You’ll bring professional expertise, curiosity, and a strengths based mindset to a service that is responsive, relational, and genuinely impactful. This is more than a job, it’s a chance to shape practice, influence culture, and help families thrive.

What you will be doing:
- Leading high quality, evidence informed practice within the multidisciplinary Family Help Team based in our Family Hubs were services area accessible to children and their families
- Working directly with children and families with complex needs, ensuring support is timely, proportionate, and effective and the voice of the child is central to your work
- Driving forward the Family Help reform vision; embedding new ways of working and championing relational, restorative practice
- Building strong partnerships across services, schools, health, and the community
- Using data, insights, and professional judgement to improve outcomes and reduce escalation

What you will need:
- A recognised professional qualification (e.g., social work, early help, youth work, family support, education, health)
- Deep understanding of child development, safeguarding, and whole family working
- Confidence in leading practice and modelling high standards
- A commitment to working collaboratively, creatively, and with compassion
- Energy, resilience, and a genuine passion for improving the lives of children and families

Why join us?
You will join a service that is investing in its people, strengthening its practice model, and embracing innovation. We’ll support you with:
- A strong learning and development offer
- Reflective supervision and opportunities to shape service design
- A culture that values professional curiosity, relational practice, and shared decision making
- The chance to influence real change as the reforms take shape

If you’re driven by purpose, motivated by challenge, and excited by the opportunity to help be part of a modern, responsive Family Help system, we would love to hear from you.

If you have any questions please contact, Ruth Moore, Family Help Team Manager via:

Email: ruth.moore@blackburn.gov.uk

Tel: 01254 666504

There'sno better way to get a feel for a team than hearing from the people who lead it. Watch our Team Managers share their experience of working in Family Help at Blackburn with Darwen below!