Job Reference:

1673

Location:

Kent

Hours of Work:

22.5 hours per week (part-time)

Salary:

£25,221 - £27,780 FTE per annum (pro-rata for part-time)

Contract Type:

Temporary Contract

Closing Date:

30 Jan 2026

Workforce Development Coordinator
Service: Family Action Medway Pregnancy to Three & Start for Life Support Service

Salary: £25,221 - £27,780 FTE per annum (£15,337.09 - £16,893.24 per annum for part-time, 22.5 hours per week)

Location: Medway, Kent

Hours: 22.5 hours per week (part-time)

We offer flexible working arrangements - please see below for more details.

Contract: Temporary until 30.06.26 (possibility of extension subject to funding)

Family Action & the Role’s Impact:
At Family Action we support people through change, challenge or crisis. It’s what we’ve done for over 150 years. We protect children, support young people and adults and offer direct, practical help to families and communities.

We see first-hand the power of family to shape lives, for better or worse, so we speak up for the
importance of family in national and local policymaking, amplify family voices and represent the changing needs of families in the UK today.
This is an exciting opportunity to be a part of a well-established team already supporting families during pregnancy and up to when their child is three years old. The programme’s objective is to join up and enhance services delivered through transformed family hubs in local authority areas, ensuring all parents and carers can access the support they need when they need it. As a Peer Support Worker you will work alongside the team to deliver 1-2-1 support, in service users’ homes and out in the community. This role provides an opportunity to be involved in a holistic approach to Perinatal Mental Health, offering well-being support to a wide range of families with young children and babies.

Main Responsibilities:
• To plan and deliver a range of resources taking a strengths based approach to share with professionals working with parents and supporting parent and infant relationships. Establishing consistent working relationships with other agencies supporting parents, identifying ways to build awareness, promote attachment and bonding experiences.

• To develop resources to strengthen support between services during pregnancy, identifying ways of working alongside universal services during this period.

• To have an acute knowledge of a trauma informed approach and how we can integrate this into our service and to have a clear understanding of services supporting in Perinatal Mental Health

• To proactively build effective networks with organisations and groups supporting parents in a range of settings, ensuring that services such as GPS, Family Hubs, Early Years Settings, Community led groups, have access to resources to support parents.

• Ensure there is a consistent approach between services offering perinatal support, utilising co-production between service users and services to develop this.

• To support services in role modelling the emotional needs of their infants, and promote secure attachment through shared training experiences, listening events, team drop-ins. Building relationships with statutory and voluntary agencies to ensure that parents receive coordinated support, having a clear understanding of their pathways for support.

• Appointments are subject to Family Action receiving a satisfactory Enhanced DBS from the Disclosure and Barring Service

Benefits
- an annual paid leave entitlement that commences at 25 working days pro-rata, rising each April by one day, subject to a maximum of 30 working days plus bank holidays
- up to 6% matched-pension contributions
- flexible working arrangements and new starters have the right to make flexible working requests from day one of employment
- 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: Friday 30th January 2026 at 11.59pm

For any queries, or if you would like to discuss any aspect of the selection process or the potential for flexible working, please email: emma.weobley@family-action.org.uk

All appointments with Family Action are subject to satisfactory Safer Recruitment checks.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion:
We are happy to consider any reasonable adjustments that candidates may need during the recruitment process and you will be asked whether you require any adjustments if shortlisted for interview. We also make reasonable adjustments on the job, where required.

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. .

*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.