Community Hub Coordinator - Dewsbury Moor Children's Centre

To apply for this job you must be an employee of Kirklees Council for the duration of the recruitment process – up to and including the start date - and have successfully completed your probationary period. Please note that if you work for an Academy you are not an employee of the Council.

Kirklees Community Hubs are collaborations between Kirklees Council, schools and their partners, working together as a vehicle for developing a range of services and support for children, families and the wider community.

Kirklees Council are looking to develop Community Hub Coordination to support a wider range of services and support in Dewsbury. You will work as part of emerging teams already working within a hub made up of mainly council and school staff. This is an exciting time to be joining Community Hubs and we hope to attract people with a wide variety of skills and experiences who all have a passion for improving outcomes, working with children, families and communities.

The key focus of your work will be to:

• Ensure that each hub is well developed and is capable, as a strong collaborative of schools and partners, of acting as the vehicle for developing a range of services and support with children, families and the wider community.
• Ensure that all support within a Hub and the Hub itself is well organized. This includes staff, volunteers and children and families themselves. Skills, expertise and knowledge held by children, families and communities themselves is at the forefront of not only maintaining support for local people but is acknowledged as vital in the design and delivery of services within the hub.
• Ensuring provision and coordination of all year-round activity. Candidates are not necessarily expected to deliver all year-round activity themselves but to ensure that provision is well organised both in and out of term time.
• Ensure clear communication with children, families and the community about what’s on offer, where to get support and how to become involved.

The work of the Community Hub Coordinators will be matrix managed. Work will be directed locally by the early Support service and members of each of the Community Hubs Senior Leadership Teams to meet the needs of each particular hub. Employment terms and conditions will be held by the Local Authority.

We will be seeking to appoint people who have the experience and skills outlined in the Job Profile, we encourage candidates to apply if they:

• Can work effectively in partnership.
• Can bring together collective effort.
• Believe that people have existing strengths, skills and experience.