Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location: County Wide but based at Basset Street Wigston

Worker Category:  Field Based Worker 

Salary:  £28,605 - £31,029 per annum (pro-rata for part-time)

Working Hours: 17 hours per week, Monday-Thursday 14.00-17.30, Friday 14.00-17.00 

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: 01/02/2026

Interview Date(s): TBC

We have an exciting role for a support worker within the Wigston Locality Safeguarding Team!

About the Role

You will provide direct high quality integrated family support and childcare services to children and young people as part of a family support/safeguarding plan by working as part of an integrated team.  You will be required to facilitate Family Time with children that are in care and ensure that accurate recordings of this is documented and can be used for court proceedings.

A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.

You will also need to be able to drive and have access to a car.

For information on our approach to the recruitment of ex-offenders, please see our policy statement.

About You

To apply for this post, you must have:

• NVQ level 3 in childcare qualification(NNEB/NVQ3) or equivalent 
• Previous experience of caring for children or young people  in a personal, voluntary or statutory capacity or experience of working to protect and improve the life changes of children or young people 
• Experience in a social care setting 
• Basic Knowledge of child development 
• Ability to work on own initiative as well as part of a team 
• good verbal and interpersonal skills to communicate clearly with children, young people, families, colleagues and professionals. 

You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.

In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.

Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.

Interested in Flexible Working?

We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual’s personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc. 

Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site. 

For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:

Jessica Noake, Team Manager

Tel: 0116 305 1447

To contact me by email, please click  here

How to Apply

Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity, and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services, we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ Plus communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the ‘About You’ section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.

To apply for this job, please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the ‘About You’ section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format, please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning 0300 3030222 (select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: https://emss.org.uk/support. 

By applying for this post, you agree to our Terms and Conditions.

About Leicestershire County Council

Leicestershire County Council is a Disability Confident, Menopause Friendly, Mindful Employer, Fostering Friendly, Forces Friendly, and Cycle Friendly organisation. In August 2021, we also signed up to the Race at Work Charter. We are strongly committed to promoting equality and opportunity, championing employee wellbeing and investing in staff training and development.

Our aim is to work with communities and partners to deliver public services that make Leicestershire the best possible place to live and work for everyone. Our employees play a key role in supporting this goal and helping us deliver the vital services we provide to the people of Leicestershire.

For further information on what it’s like to work for us and the benefits we offer, please refer to the following:

Our Recruitment Process
Our Organisational Values
Our Employee Benefits
Working for Us