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Family Hub Support Workers

PRE-SCHOOL LEARNING ALLIANCE
9,808.83 per year
Luton
Part-time
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The  Early Years Alliance is the largest early years membership organisation and voluntary sector provider of quality affordable childcare and education in England. An educational charity, the Alliance represents the interests of over 14,000 member settings who deliver care and learning to over 800,000 families every year. We are looking to recruit Family Hub Support Workers.

 

We are seeking two part time Family Hub Support Workers to join the Early Years Alliance team in Luton. Working within the Flying Start/Family Hub team, delivering services across the town, providing high quality universal and targeted services for families. The role will focus on the under-fives sessions but also signposting to wider family services. It will promote the Best Start in Life offer including; amongst others, healthy infant feeding practices, parent infant relationships, child development and provide wider family support, with the aim of improving the life chances of children.  You will be passionate about making a difference to children and families. Strong IT skills and flexibility to work across multiple Luton sites are essential. Experience supporting families with children showing early developmental delays is highly desirable.

 

Benefits:

  • 25 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays, pro rata for part time employees
  • Additional annual leave for long service
  • Enhanced sickness pay
  • Employer and employee contribution pension scheme
  • Birthday leave so you can have a day off for your birthday dedicated to you and your well being
  • Regular access to internal and external learning and development opportunities
  • A Recruitment Referral Payment Scheme, giving you an introductory payment of up to £300 if someone you have referred to the Alliance takes up a role in the charity.
  • Access to our Employee Assistant Programme (EAP), which includes 24/7 helpline access, dedicated managers helpline, confidential counselling sessions delivered by accredited specialists, legal, debt and life management advice, discounts, and wellbeing content plus resources.
  • Savings of up to 25% on O2 Refresh Airtime Plan on any new phone or tablets
  • A dedicated mental health First Aider to support your mental well being

Main duties:

  • Plan and deliver high quality focused and universal sessions, including the evaluation of all sessions and activities to encourage the engagement of parents in their children’s learning, development, health and wellbeing, at various locations in Luton.
  • Provide support to new parents across Luton’s diverse communities to help develop secure attachments and build strong parent/infant relationships.
  •  Provide infant feeding information to families within sessions to encourage breastfeeding and promote responsive feeding to encourage healthy infant feeding practices and the parent/infant relationship.
    Contribute to raising awareness of the Best Start in Life offer for families, the Family Hub/Flying Start services alongside other local public health initiatives.
  • Work closely with health services to enable mothers to access the right services at the earliest point in their parenting journey. Actively promote the importance of the 1001 critical days.
  • Complete and maintain accurate records on IT systems. Provide data and information to support the completion of monthly and quarterly performance reports.

Essential criteria:

  • NVQ 3 Early Years Care and Education or equivalent qualification, or in-depth proven experience of working with children and families, with a good working knowledge of the EYFS.
  • Proven effective communication skills – able to communicate effectively in person and in writing, with professionals, staff, early help and social care teams and other organisations.
  • Experience of a successful multi-agency approach with professionals, early help teams, social care teams and other early years settings.
  • Knowledge of the aims, objectives and ethos of Children’s Centres/Family Hubs and other national developments of services for children aged 0-5 years.
  • Good understanding and knowledge of Safeguarding children and young people and relevant safeguarding processes and procedures.
  • Good IT skills including use of Microsoft 365 including Word, internet and email.

This is a fixed term post until 31st March 2028 with the possibility to extend.

 

 Hours per week: 39

Weeks per year:  16

Virtual interview date: TBC

 

Please note our virtual interviews take place via Microsoft Teams, you may need to download this prior to your interview.