Fostering Intervention Worker

Closing date: 22/07/2026

Salary: Grade 12, ranging from £32,584 to £36,047 per annum, this includes a £3,986 recruitment allowance per annum, until 31/08/2028.

Location: Somerset

Role summary

As a Family Intervention Worker, you will join our Children and Families Service, supporting children, young people and their families to achieve safe, stable and positive outcomes.

In this rewarding role, you’ll act as a key worker and case manager, delivering intensive, tailored support to families with complex needs. You’ll build strong relationships, develop creative intervention plans, and work collaboratively with multi-agency partners to help families thrive and reduce the need for statutory intervention.

The Fostering Intervention Team is an innovative addition to the fostering and kinship service which is focused on promoting stability in fostering households. The team of 8 Family Intervention Workers will between them work shifts 7 days per week between 7am-11pm.  

What you’ll do - key responsibilities

The aim is to stabilise homes for children, increase retention of foster carers, prevent family breakdown, reduce risks, and enable children to remain safely within carer networks wherever possible.

The Fostering Intervention Team will provide intervention to foster carers at times of crisis to manage and de-escalate situation. They will provide planned practical and parenting support to carers, enabling them to balance fostering and home life to support their fostering role and stability.

Your day to day may involve:

• Managing a caseload of children, young people and families, delivering intensive, outcome-focused support.
• Assessing needs and strengths to create effective, tailored intervention plans.
• Working directly with families to reduce risk and support children to remain safely at home or return home.
• Coordinating support with partners including Social Care, education and health services.
• Monitoring risk, maintaining accurate case records, and contributing to multi-agency meetings.
• Delivering crisis intervention and supporting out-of-hours responses, including evenings and weekends.

What we’re looking for – knowledge, experience & skills

• Experience working with children, young people and families with complex needs
• Strong ability to build relationships and engage families in positive change
• Experience working in a multi-agency environment
• Ability to assess risk and deliver evidence-based interventions
• Knowledge of safeguarding and supporting vulnerable children
• Confident using IT systems to record and manage casework

Additional Information  

• Permanent, 37 hour position. (Although this is a permanent role, the team is new and the role will be subject to evaluation. Should changes be proposed the posts would be re-allocated within the wider FIS service).

• Opportunities available Countywide.
• You will need to be able to travel to meet the requirements of this role and be available to work evenings and weekends on a rota basis.

• 28 day’s annual leave (additional to bank holidays)

Regretfully, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role. We are only able to proceed with candidates who already have the right to work in the UK without the need for visa sponsorship.

For an informal chat about the role please contact Emma Martin, Team Leader at emma.martin@somerset.gov.uk

Job Description: AG1003 Family Intervention Worker

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