Inclusion Practitioner

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Family Hub, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire

Closing Date:

13/09/2026

Job Category:

Children's Centres

Service Area:

Children's Services
- Children's Centres Services

In addition to your salary, we offer a range of benefits including:

• Great holiday benefits - most roles include 28days annual leave every year on top of public (bank) holidays, increasing to 32days after five  addition, there is a holiday purchase scheme allowing staff to purchase up to 5 additional days of leave each year.
• Excellent pension - everyone who works for us can join the national Local Government Pension Scheme, widely regarded as one of the best available.
• A full range of family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, adoption and paternity support.
• Access to an award-winning employee benefits programme that includes a health cash plan, a low-cost bike purchase scheme as well as high street discounts and money off entertainment and travel.
• Salary sacrifice car scheme - eligible employees can lease an electric or low-emission vehicle at a reduced cost through salary sacrifice, subject to National Minimum Wage and other eligibility requirements.
• Blue Light Card - employees working within social care can qualify for an additional range of discounts from national retailers and local businesses.

Roles are either ‘site based’ or ‘home based’.

Site based roles are mainly based at the workplace, with the option to work from home for up to two days a week, depending on service needs.

Home based roles are mainly based at home, with the expectation of attending the workplace up to one day a week.

The working arrangement for each role is set by the manager, based on service requirements.

We’re recruiting a Best Start Inclusion Practitioner to join our Best Start Family Hubs team. Our Best Start Family Hubs support children and families to access the right help at the right time, helping children achieve the best possible start in life.

This rewarding role will play a key part in identifying emerging special educational needs and disabilities and ensuring families receive timely advice, guidance and practical support.

The Best Start Inclusion Practitioner (BSIP) role is a mandated requirement of the Department for Education's Best Start Family Hub and Healthy Babies reforms and is directly linked to Milton Keynes City Council's grant funding conditions.

As a funded delivery requirement, the Department for Education expects local authorities to have BSIPs in post, or active recruitment underway, by October 2026, with progress monitored through regular monthly assurance meetings.

To support implementation of the new Children's Social Care quadrant model and ensure compliance with grant obligations, Milton Keynes will initially establish four BSIP posts, representing a critical investment in both service transformation and ongoing funding assurance.

BSIPs will provide direct support to families where emerging special educational needs and disabilities are identified. Working across family hubs, community settings and family homes, you'll help children and families access inclusive support while strengthening early developmental outcomes.

You'll join a council that is dedicated, respectful and collaborative, where we work together to make our city a better place to live and where every day matters.

Site-Based role

This is a Site-Based role, and you’ll be expected to work from the designated workplace.

Interviews for this role will be held on 30th September 2026

At Milton Keynes City Council, we aim to make a difference every day. We’re dedicated, respectful and collaborative. We act as one council, and we work…