Family Keyworker


Company:	London Borough of Bexley
Salary:	£37,119 - £42,588
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Bexleyheath, DA6 7AT
Working pattern:	Hybrid - 1 day remote
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	12 Aug 2026
Closing date:	28 Aug 2026

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Summary

The Family Wellbeing Service aims to provide help to families early, to prevent difficulties becoming worse. The service works with children and families from 0 to 18 years old.

The service has family key workers who work directly with children and families, providing advice, help and support, they will work with families up to three months and where more intensive support is identified a maximum of up to 6 months.

The post holder will deliver an intensive, targeted, high quality whole-family service for Bexley families who are identified as having children and young people who are at risk of poor outcomes and/or at risk of escalating to high need statutory services.

This specialist role forms part of the Family Wellbeing Service. The post holder will need to be experienced in supporting families displaying challenging behaviour to bring about positive change for them and have experience of multi-agency working to support families. This generic role requires the post holder to have transferable skills and to work flexibly across a range of specialisms e.g. parental domestic violence, parental mental health, parental substance mis-use and children at risk of school exclusion. The role requires a dedicated and specialist worker who works alongside families providing both practical support and advice. Families engaged within the service will range from high complex need through to low need.

Through the process of completing a comprehensive assessment of need, the worker will help families to make their own decisions about the changes they need to make, work with families to develop a SMART family support plan and then support the implementation of this plan. By working in a family centred and holistic way staff will ensure improved outcomes and life chances for children and families of London Borough of Bexley (LBB).

The post holder will be required to deliver input and training in specific areas of specialist work to colleagues and other professionals in support of the objectives of the service.

No direct supervisory responsibility however, there may be requirement to assist in induction and training of peers and new employees.

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