Overview
Family Support Parenting Practitioner –
This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.
- Job Title: Family Support Parenting Practitioner
- Job Location: Stroud and Gloucester
- Salary: £33,143 – £36,363 per annum
- Hours per Week: 37.00
- Contract Type: Permanent
- Closing Date: 26/10/2025
- Job Requisition Number: 12481
- This post is open to job share
Join our dedicated team in Children’s Services and make a real difference in the lives of children and families across Gloucestershire.
We are currently recruiting for a Family Support Parenting Practitioner to join our Triple P team within Early Help.
About us
For all your hard work, you will receive the following:
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£33,143 – £36,363 per annum, subject to experience
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flexible and agile working opportunities
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25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years continuous service
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an option to purchase 10 days of additional leave per year
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family friendly policies and benefits to help support you and your family
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a supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision
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Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
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access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone.
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an in-house Occupational Health service
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employee discount scheme
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cycle to work scheme
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links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) and the Young Employees Network
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career development and qualification opportunities
Right child, right support, right time, every time
In our recent inspection in June 2025, our Children’s Services have been officially judged as ‘Good’ with ‘Outstanding’ elements. Ofsted also said ‘Leaders have set out a clear vision for delivering success for children, by modelling values and creating a culture where the workforce, children and families feel valued and heard; risk is managed confidently with bottom lines clearly set out.’
This marks an important step in our journey to improve outcomes for our children and young people, and we remain focused on our mission: to continue building on this success and ensure that every child and young person in our county has the opportunity to thrive.
Gloucestershire offers a range of opportunities to develop your career, supported by a phenomenal Social Work Academy offer, a developing systemic practice methodology, an ambitious leadership team and an award-winning workforce. We are a local authority adopting, and training all colleagues in, systemic social work practice.
We are an authority that takes a relational approach to working with families and focuses on what needs to change in the system around a child and family to enable children to thrive.
About the role
You will deliver impactful parenting interventions both online and within communities across Gloucestershire.
In this role, you’ll work with high-need, complex families using a family intervention approach. You’ll be responsible for evaluating progress and documenting outcomes through detailed reporting.
Collaboration is key—you’ll work closely with a wide range of agencies and organisations to ensure families receive coordinated and well-planned support.
Your work will focus on early intervention, helping families to manage challenges before they escalate, and reducing the need for referrals to social care services.
About the team
You will be part of a supporting and friendly team who work alongside the Triple P team within Early Help in the Families First Team.
The role is hybrid with days working from home but it is expected that you will be office-based at least once a week (currently on Thursdays) in either the Stroud or Gloucester locality office.
About you
As well as your experience working with children, young people, families, and communities, delivering a range of interventions we would also expect applicants to have:
- experience with multi-agency assessments and plans is essential.
- a full driving licence and access to a car are required
- level 3 qualification (or equivalent experience)
Please note that this role may involve working some evenings and weekends.
If you have any questions about the role please email Kelly.Mitchell@gloucestershire.gov.uk
We reserve the right to close an advertisement earlier than the stated closing date if we receive a suitable number of applications.
If you would like to find out more about our Children’s Service please take a look here: Children’s Social Care Careers | Gloucestershire County Council
The council is not currently able to offer sponsorship in this role. Candidates will need to have right to work that enables them to commit to at least 6 months employment. Right to work is not transferable from a sponsored role held with another employer.
Under the terms of our Safer Recruitment Policy, if you are invited to interview, we will take up safeguarding references prior to your interview to understand your suitability to work with vulnerable children. These references will then be discussed in your interview. Please give details of at least two referees, one of whom must be your present and/or last employer and the other from a previous employer(s). These will need to cover the last three years of employment/education. In the case of applicants leaving full time education or not having worked since doing so, the Head of School, College or University should be one of the named referees. We do not accept references from friends or family members or workplace colleagues (who are not more senior). To ensure we process your application in a speedy and efficient way, we will contact your referees by DocuSign. Where appropriate, please inform them of your application.
Additional Information
To access the Job Profile for this role, please follow the link below:-
Family Support Parenting Practitioner Role Profile
This position is subject to a DBS check.
Gloucestershire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people or vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We want to be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining excellent people to work for us, so that we can best serve all of Gloucestershire’s diverse communities. Our promise to you is that we will provide an inclusive and supportive working environment that enables you to bring your whole self to work and realise your full potential.
It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a ‘customer facing role’ must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.
Hybrid working arrangements are available for the majority of our roles, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of both remote and office working.
