About the role

Best Start in Life and Family Hubs Engagement Worker

Service: Family Action Perinatal Support Service

Salary: Starting at £28,884, increasing to £31,698 per annum (pro-rata for part-time hours)

Location: Across the Bradford District

Hours: 37 hours per week (full-time) - We would consider 4 days, 29.6 hours per week.

We offer flexible working arrangements - please see below for more details.

Contract: Temporary until end of March 2027, subject to funding. Potential to extend when funding in place.

Family Action & the Role’s Impact:
At Family Action we support people through change, challenge or crisis. It’s what we’ve done for over 150 years. We protect children, support young people and adults and offer direct, practical help to families and communities.

Are you passionate about supporting families? Are you organised, proactive, adaptable, and skilled in engaging families and professionals? Do you have experience of providing advice and signposting and / or community engagement or community outreach work?

The Best Start in Life programme provides extra support to families to improve children's lives, from when the baby is conceived up to the age of five. Family Hubs support families with children and young people of all ages, and at every stage of family life. Family Hubs are places in the heart of the community where you can attend appointments, meet with staff for a chat, or take part in courses and activities.

Main Responsibilities:
• Planning forward to attend sessions across Bradford District in the Family Hubs, satellite sites, and community venues. Engaging with families to share information about the Best Start in Life programme, and encourage participation in the Family Hubs and their offer.
• Be the friendly face and welcoming presence in sessions and clinics, building rapport with the parents/carers and children who attend, and engaging with them.
• Signposting and referring into Best Start in Life projects, and to Family Hub activities, and the Family Navigators.
• Supporting families to access and navigate on the Families and Young People’s information (FYI) website and use this to find out what is happening in their local area.
• Liaising with Family Hub staff, including Family Navigators, and with Best Start in Life projects, professionals and community workers across the system and local area.

Main Requirements (for details check the job description and person specification):
• Personal experience of pregnancy, childbirth, and early parenting, or have supported people in the first 1001 days.
• Experience of supporting families and communities, and of community engagement or outreach work, and advising and signposting.
• Excellent organisational skills and the ability to work autonomously, including forward planning for sessions to attend, in order to maximise impact of the role.
• Good networking and engagement skills, able to both be friendly and welcoming in engaging with families, and in building connections with professionals and community workers.
• Appointments are subject to Family Action, receiving a satisfactory disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Benefits:
- an annual paid leave entitlement that commences at 25 working days, rising each April by one day, subject to a maximum of 30 working days plus bank holidays / of 30 working days plus bank holidays (pro-rata if part-time)
- up to 6% matched-pension contributions
- enhanced paid sick leave and paid family leave provisions
- eye care and winter flu jabs vouchers
- cycle to work scheme
- investing in your professional development with ongoing quality training and career development opportunities

We are forward looking, ambitious and committed to continuous improvement. We are a people focused, can-do organisation, which strives for excellence in all we do and operates with mutual respect.

To Apply:
• Click the “Apply Now” link below and fill out our digital application form
• Closing Date: Sunday the 26th April at 23:59

Interviews – Wednesday 13th May – in person

For direct queries or if you would like to discuss any aspect of the selection process or flexible working requests, please email: katie.james@family-action.org.uk

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion:
We are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in all that we do and welcome applications from all sections of the community / particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates and candidates with disabilities because we are committed to increasing the representation of these groups at Family Action. We know that greater diversity will lead to even greater results for families and children and strive for our workforce to be truly representative of the diverse communities we support.

All candidates with a disability are welcome to apply under the Disability Confident Scheme and request priority consideration for an interview, provided they meet the essential criteria for the role.
To help remove financial barriers to working with us, we will reimburse travel costs if you are invited to attend an interview in person.

*Ordinarily Family Action appoints new starters at the starting point of the salary scale (with subsequent annual pay progression), unless you have experience that would justify appointment further up the salary scale or there are any other exceptional reasons.