About the role

We are seeking passionate and committed Family Support Workers to join our Complex Safeguarding Service, with a dedicated focus on tackling exploitation and risk outside the home. This is a rewarding opportunity to make a real difference to the lives of vulnerable children and young people. You will work directly with young people and their families, delivering targeted interventions to reduce risk, build resilience, and promote positive outcomes.

These roles are central to our statutory duties in Safeguarding Children and Young People, ensuring that robust systems are in place to identify, assess, and respond to the risks associated with criminal, sexual and other forms of exploitation.

Key Responsibilities

Build trusting relationships with children and young people who may be vulnerable to exploitation (including criminal and sexual exploitation)
Undertake assessments, and contribute to effective safety planning, and multi-agency safeguarding processes
Deliver creative, trauma informed interventions tailored to individual needs
Work in partnership with families to strengthen protective factors and improve outcomes
Work closely with partner agencies including police, health services, education and social care
Support young people to engage in education, training and positive activities
Maintain accurate, timely, and high-quality case recordings

About You

We are looking for individuals who:

Have substantial experience working with children, young people, or families in a support, youth work, or safeguarding role.
Understand the risks associated with exploitation and extra-familial harm.
Are skilled in building relationships with young people who are often resistant to work with professionals.
Able to deliver targeted interventions to young people in a trauma informed way
Can work flexibly, including some evenings and occasional weekends.
Are resilient, reflective, and able to manage complex and challenging situations.
Have strong communication and partnership working skills, with the ability to coordinate multi-agency responses.

About Bury
The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare or children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. Appointment may be subject to a satisfactory disclosure at the appropriate level under the Disclosure and Barring Service.
In line with safer recruitment, please ensure that your application/CV covers your full employment history and there is a reason noted for any gaps in employment. Successful candidates will be asked to provide relevant references for the past ten years and character references will not be accepted.

As a Corporate Parent, ensure that the work and services you deliver considers our care experienced young people, promotes their life chances empowers them to influence the policies, services, and decisions that affect them, champions their rights, and ensure they grow up in the best possible way.

Benefits of working for Bury Council
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We support employees to work with agility, where appropriate for the post and service requirements.
We are committed to Bury being an equal society that recognises values and embraces all people, regardless of any difference, for the skills, abilities and experiences they bring into the workforce and the wider community. Therefore we guarantee an interview for disabled people, looked after children/ care leavers, armed forces personnel (including reservists and veterans) and carers of adults or disabled children if they meet the essential criteria.

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