Family Support Worker
Stockport Council
Family Support Worker Keeping in Touch Team (Letterbox)
Scale 5, (£28,598 - £31,022) pro rata to hours worked
Two roles available:
37 Hours, Full Time Temporary, until March 2027
18.5 Hours, Part Time Permanent
Hybrid - Etrop Court, Wythenshawe Manchester.
Application Deadline: 11:59pm 22nd June 2026
Please be aware that we may close this vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
Interview Date: 7th July 2026
Interview Type: In person
On your application form please ensure you indicate whether you wish to be considered for the full time post, part time post or both.
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Your Role
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Adoption Support Team at Adoption Counts to support birth families and adopters to participate in direct / indirect contact through a Letterbox exchange as a way of promoting the child’s identity, across the Regional Adoption Agency area.
You will also have the opportunity to deliver family support to adoptive families living within our region to ensure the child’s needs are at the centre of our work. This will include undertaking some direct work sessions with children and parents.
Adoption Counts is a Regional Adoption Agency covering Manchester, Stockport, Cheshire East, Trafford and Salford.
About You
We are looking for someone who has a good understanding of the issues faced by children who have suffered trauma and the qualities needed in adoptive families to meet those needs. You should be a good communicator, a team player and be passionate about achieving positive outcomes for children.
About Us
Adoption Counts is a Regional Adoption agency, delivering adoption services in Cheshire East, Manchester, Salford, Stockport and Trafford local authorities. The agency was one of 5 national demonstrator projects and was the second agency to go “live” in July 2017 and continues to play a lead role in national developments and have strong links with the DFE. Covering a large geographical area, we function in a hub and spoke model .Hub functions such as recruitment, marketing, performance management, panel management and finance are based in Wythenshawe. The area is then covered from three geographical spokes-the northern spoke being in Salford, central in Wythenshawe, and south based in Wythenshawe and Middlewich.
Adoption Support social workers and family support workers are based in Wythenshawe at Etrop Court. We offer a high level of management support while challenging ourselves to provide services that strive to be the very best.
Stockport local authority who are the host agency will employ staff, who therefore benefit from all Stockport terms and conditions.
If you are passionate about adoption, work to the highest standards and want to join a forward thinking agency, then this is an exciting opportunity not to be missed.
At Stockport Council we are one ambitious team on a mission to create opportunities for everyone who lives, works and spends time in the borough. Working at Stockport Council means contributing to one of the most thriving towns in the North. We’re keen to recruit people with the right values and behaviours that can help us ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do.
We are proud to be recognised under the Good Employment Charter as an organisation committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues. As members of the charter, we have been recognised as a great place to work for all colleagues and pledge to pay the real living wage, engage staff in key decisions and endorse fair and flexible working conditions.
For more information please contact Melissa Ruffy melissa.ruffy@adoptioncounts.org.uk or alice.taylor@adoptioncounts.org.uk
The successful applicant’s appointment will be subject to satisfactory pre-employment clearances including a Disclosure and Barring Service check.
Stockport Council holds a Visa sponsorship licence but this can only be used for certain roles and this campaign does not currently qualify.
Please note that we have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers and ex-military personnel. As part of the Guaranteed Assessment Scheme you will therefore be guaranteed to be shortlisted for Assessment if you meet both the criteria for the scheme and the essential job role criteria.
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We want our employees to have a good work life balance and in many job roles we can offer a range of flexible/hybrid working arrangements. We also have inclusive employment policies and staff engagement forums to support our diverse workforce. We will listen to, learn from, and develop our workforce.