Family Hub Practitioner

Job Reference:

1717

Location:

Gloucestershire

Hours of Work:

37 hours per week (full-time)

Salary:

£25,221 - £27,780 per annum

Contract Type:

Permanent

Closing Date:

08 Mar 2026

Family Hub Practitioner

Service: Cotswolds and Stroud Children and Family Centres
Location: Cotswolds & Stroud Districts

Hours: 37 hours per week (full-time)
Salary: £25,221 - £27,780 per annum

Contract: Permanent

About Family Action
Family Action delivers high quality, inclusive services that strengthen families and communities across the UK. Our Children & Family Centres in Gloucestershire provide welcoming, supportive spaces offering whole family, universal and targeted activities for families with children of all ages.

The Role
We are looking for a motivated and skilled Family Hub Practitioner to develop and deliver a range of universal and targeted sessions across our centres and community venues. You will create and deliver engaging stay & play groups, early communication activities, baby sessions and evidence based parenting programmes. You will ensure families feel welcome, included and supported, promoting child development, early attachment and parental confidence. The role involves close partnership working with health, early years and other key agencies to deliver a broad, integrated offer across the Family Hub network.

What We’re Looking For
You will have experience working with early years children and families, strong knowledge of child development and safeguarding, and confidence facilitating group sessions. You’ll be values driven, organised, reflective and able to build positive relationships with families and partner agencies. A Level 3+ early years/health/social care/community qualification and a full driving licence are essential.

Why Join Us?
You’ll be part of a supportive, collaborative team, contributing to Family Action’s mission of building stronger families through high quality services for children and families.

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

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 8th March 2026 at 11.59pm; however, applications will be reviewed as they are received and the post may be closed early if a large number of applications are received.

Applicants invited to interview will be contacted within 1 week of the closing date.

For direct queries or if you would like to discuss any aspect of the selection process or flexible working requests, please email: mandy.massey@family-action.org.uk

Appointments are subject to satisfactory Safer Recruitment checks, including a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check where appropriate to the role.

*Ordinarily Family Action appoints new starters at the starting point of the salary scale (with subsequent annual pay progression), unless you have experience that would justify appointment further up the salary scale or there are any other exceptional reasons.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion:
We are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in all that we do and welcome applications from all sections of the community / particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates and candidates with disabilities because we are committed to increasing the representation of these groups at Family Action. We know that greater diversity will lead to even greater results for families and children and 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 travel costs if you are invited to attend an interview in person.