Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: Grade F. Scale 17 - £31,022 to Scale 22 - £33,699
Hours Per Week: 36
Base Location: Family Hubs across the borough
Assessment Date: To be arranged
Are you passionate about making a real difference in the lives of children and families? Do you bring compassion, curiosity, collaboration, conversation, and courage to your practice? If so, Tameside is looking for you.
The Role
This is an exciting time to be joining Tameside Early Help Services as we expand our Partnership Link Worker team.
We are recruiting to 5 Partnership Link Worker positions to strengthen Tameside’s early help offer.
As a Partnership Link Worker, you will work closely with partner agencies across Tameside Borough Council to support the early identification of needs for children, young people and their families. You will provide consultation and support to partners and to the Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH)
You will play a pivotal role in supporting agencies to undertake Early Help Assessments, hold meaningful Team Around the Family meetings, and develop high quality support plans for children, young people and their families.
As a Partnership Link Worker, you will support the Senior Practitioner and Early Help Team Manager in quality assurance, delivering training and team development.
This is a key role in ensuring that support is offered to children, young people and their families at the earliest opportunity.
About You
Are you passionate about improving outcomes for children? Can you develop meaningful professional relationships with others whilst keeping children at the centre? Are you resilient, creative, forward thinking, organised and a great communicator? Then this could be the role for you.
If you believe that you meet the essential requirements of the job description/person specification then we are keen to hear from you.
About Us
Message from Jill Colbert, Director of Children’s Services
“I joined the council at the beginning of 2025 and was instantly charmed by the warmth, openness, and energy of colleagues.
“I came to Tameside for one reason; because I know we can do fantastic things for our families here.
“We’re a children’s service on a significant improvement journey. We know what needs to be different for our children and families and we’re ambitious to deliver that change.
“We have a growing range of specialist services for children, where you can test and grow your skills and practice. We have a Social Work Academy that is led by people who bring passion to learning and who know that the DCS’ of the future are right in front of them. We are working on our progression pathways so that staying in Tameside is rewarded and recognised. We have investment in innovation and improvement from the council so that we can grow services and support for families that we can sustain, from family hubs through to complex safeguarding.
“I am so certain that we can build a proud, inclusive and safe climate for great practice to flourish in Tameside. I’d love you to join me on the journey here at Team Tameside.”
Our Heart of Support Practice Approach
At Tameside, we believe in:
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Compassion understanding the lived experiences of children and families.
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Curiosity asking questions that lead to deeper insight and better outcomes for children.
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Collaboration working together across services to deliver joined-up support.
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Conversation listening and engaging meaningfully with children, families and professionals.
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Courage leading with courage, making bold and compassionate decisions that put children first.
At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.
We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do.
Our employees’ skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults and expect all staff to share this commitment. This position is subject to Enhanced with Barred List Disclosure Procedures.
Unfortunately, at this time we are not able to offer sponsorship.
We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer. Reasonable Adjustments will be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the Job Role Criteria.
Our rewards and benefits package can be viewed here
For an informal discussion about the role please contact Jayne Grice, Head of Service, via email [email protected]
