Family Support Worker

Job Description

Based at Montrose Town House, High Street, Montrose.

This job is workstyle 3 - Flexi

You will have the opportunity to benefit from our flexible and agile working practices. This means you will work from a variety of locations including working from council buildings and you can work from home to best suit your work, meetings and collaboration.

We are recruiting for a Family Support Worker to join our Montrose/Brechin Locality Childcare Team. We are looking for an enthusiastic person who is passionate about supporting some of the most vulnerable families in our community and are committed to working towards maximising inclusion and reducing inequalities across Angus.

The role of the Family Support Worker is to support children and families with a range of services including parenting work, individual sessions with children/young people, group work, supervising family time and regular visits to families’ homes.

Angus Council is a forward-thinking council where we support employees to have an agile workstyle, working between home and your team’s office base. We are happy to discuss a flexible working plan to enable employees to have a working pattern that suits their lifestyle.

If you think you have the drive and commitment to work in this challenging and rewarding area of practice then please contact Lynda Fraser on 01674 907611 or e-mail localitymonbre@angus.gov.uk for more information.

Angus Council a great place to live, work and visit.

Please note interviews will be held Monday, 23 March 2026.

Requirements

You must have the ability to become a member of the PVG Scheme.

Please refer to job outline and person specification for further details and requirements for this job.

About Angus Council

In addition, please refer to the "applicant guidance" document when completing your application form and to the "welcome to Angus" document and our website https://www.angus.gov.uk/jobs_and_training/working_for_angus_council for more information about working for Angus Council.

The Individual

We are happy to discuss flexible working during the recruitment process for this position. This means we are open to a conversation about working patterns and the flexibility that is available for this role whilst managing the workload.

We offer a guaranteed job interview to the following people who meet the essential criteria on application for a job:

Those with disabilities, recognised caring responsibilities, care experienced young people and ex-armed forces personnel. This also applies to our own employees with caring responsibilities, young people on apprenticeships and placements who meet the essential criteria for the job.