About the role

ID: 1710 Youth in Mind: Connect Early Years Coordinator

Service: Bradford Perinatal Support Service

Salary: £28,884 - £31,698 FTE per annum (£17,330.40 - £19,018.80 per annum, pro rata)

Location: Based in Central Bradford, working across the Bradford District

This role is office based in central Bradford with group delivery in venues across the district.

Hours: Part-time (22.2 hours per week)

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

Contract: Permanent

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.

We are looking for an Early Years Coordinator to lead on the planning and delivery of attachment-based group work with parents and 0-5 year olds who are accessing Early Help Services. This exciting venture will be part of Youth in Mind: Connect (YiM Connect) , a new, VCSE-led partnership programme delivered by All Star Ents., Barnardo’s, Bradford District & Craven Mind (BDC Mind), Brathay Trust, Family Action and Invictus Wellbeing, supporting children, young people and families (CYPF) across Bradford District with emerging emotional and social wellbeing needs. The programme is led by BDC Mind and funded by Bradford Children and Families Trust, and is trauma-informed, relational and rooted in communities. YiM Connect mainly delivers evidence-based group support, with targeted one-to-one input to support engagement and group readiness, helping children and families access the right help at the right time.

Main Responsibilities:
• Lead the organisation and planning of the Theraplay groupwork programme
• Co-deliver group work sessions
• Record sessions and collate evaluation from the groupwork programme
• Line manage and supervise the Early Years Practitioner with whom you will deliver the programme.
• Manage and Triage referrals.
• Promote the group work amongst families and professionals, generating referrals, and ensuring families can access the sessions

Main Requirements (for details check the job description and person specification):
• Experience in working in the Early Years and delivering evidence-based groupwork
• Experience in developing groupwork programmes and organising delivery of programmes
• Appointments are subject to Family Action receiving a satisfactory disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service – Enhanced disclosure

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
- 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, including for this role, accredited training in Theraplay
- joining a positive and passionate team, who work together to deliver high quality and innovative support to children and families

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’ link below and fill out our digital application form
• Closing Date: Sunday 1st March 2026 at 23:59

Interviews are scheduled to take place on 11th March, face-to-face at our offices in Bradford, with slots available throughout the day

For any queries, or if you would like to discuss any aspect of the selection process or the potential for flexible working, please email: katie.james@family-action.org.uk All appointments with Family Action are subject to satisfactory Safer Recruitment checks.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion:
We are happy to consider any reasonable adjustments that candidates may need during the recruitment process, and you will be asked whether you require any adjustments if shortlisted for interview. We also make reasonable adjustments on the job, where required.

We are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in all that we do and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Intersectionality is important to us and we welcome applications from ethnically diverse communities, LGBTQIA+ candidates and disabled candidates. We are committed to increasing the representation of these groups at Family Action because we know that greater diversity will lead to even greater results for families and children and we 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 reasonable travel costs if you are invited to attend an interview in person.