Family Hub Worker

Are you looking for a new challenge? We have an exciting opportunity for a passionate individual to join our team and work across our Sandwell locality Family Hubs as a Family Hub Worker on a full-time basis.

Working Pattern: 37 hours a week (Core hours are Monday to Friday 9am - 5pm with the occasional requirement to work evenings and weekends to meet the needs of the service)

Starting Salary: £23,400

About the Service: Family hubs are a place-based way of joining up locally in the planning and delivery of family services. They bring services together to improve access, improve the connections between families, professionals, services, and providers, and put relationships at the heart of family support. Family hubs offer support to families from conception to 19 or up to 25 for those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), with a great Start for Life offer at their core.

The service will provide a range of quality services for families, locally designed for the 6 town areas of the Borough, divided into 3 areas:

Cluster A - Oldbury, Smethwick

Cluster B - Tipton, Rowley Regis

Cluster C - Wednesbury and West Bromwich

Essential Requirements to evidence in your written application:

• NVQ Level 3 of Equivalent qualification in a relevant field
• Experience of working with and supporting children/young people and their families to achieve positive outcomes.
• Ability/experience of identifying and appropriately acting on safeguarding concerns.
• Ability to demonstrate a good understanding of child development.
• Ability to complete accurate and timely records, data and assessments.
• Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team.
• The willingness/ability to travel throughout the locality to meet the requirements of the role.

As a Family Hub Worker, you will be integral to the relationship development with families who move through the Pregnancy Pathway into parenthood of their newborn baby up to the age of 3, as part of Sandwell's Start for Life offer.

Some key objectives/activities of the role include but are not limited to:

• Provide support to families as part of the Pregnancy Pathway.
• Provide Early Help support to families with children from birth up to the age of 3, ensuring the inclusion of fathers and co-parents.
• Act as a Key Worker as a point of contact for families.
• Provide support with Perinatal Mental Health, linking with other perinatal mental health agency support networks and receive training to deliver interventions.
• Please see attached additional information sheet for more information.

When completing your application please refer to the skills, knowledge and experience you have in relation to the Additional Information sheet, Person Specification & Job Description.

*Although this contract has a permanent status, please be aware that this post is subject to funding currently to 31st March 2025 and therefore should this funding not be extended further, you may be subject to a redundancy consultation or a TUPE arrangement. This contract is due to expire on 31st March 2025*

Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible.