Family Hubs Engagement Worker

Best Start in Life and Family Hubs Engagement Worker

Service:
Family Action Perinatal Support Service

Location:

Across the Bradford District

Hours:

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

Contract:

Temporary until end of March 2027, subject to funding. Post will be made permanent as soon as further funding is in place, we expect to find out about funding by September.

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

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?

• Planning forward to attend sessions across the 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.

• Personal experience of pregnancy, childbirth, and early parenting, or have supported people in the first 1001 days of baby’s life, and the pre‑school period.
• 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.

• 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 (pro‑ratio 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 committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in all that we do and welcome applications from all sections of the community, particularly Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates and candidates with disabilities. We aim to increase the representation of these groups. 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.