Family Hub Support Worker
Job introduction
The Family Hub Support Workers will work preventatively to support families across all levels of need providing groups and interventions.
Deliver groups and targeted interventions including evidence-based interventions to children, young people and families.
For an informal discussion, please contact Sean Stones - (Community Manager Hangleton Family Hub) on 07824 866969
We have two posts available one in Hangleton Family Hub and one in Tarner Family Hub. Please discuss your preferences at interview.
About the role
Support Workers work as front line staff for the Family Hub service. They provide groups and intervention support both in our main Family Hub buildings as well as within family homes and community venues .
No day is ever the same in Family Hubs – our Support workers work with and support a large number and diverse range of families, many of whom do not speak English as their first language or need extra help from us to access our services.
Family hub evidence-based interventions delivered by the support workers include support around speech and language development, parenting interventions such as Triple P level 3, cost of living support to families, and parental relationship support.
The Family Hubs service has received additional funding from the Department for Education for a third year of transformation and we are excited about this next chapter in the development of our service.
We have vacancies for two full time positions, one based in the Hangleton Family Hub and one based at Tarner Family Hub in central Brighton. You will also be expected to travel to other Family Hubs sites and work across the city as part of this role.
Work with families is recorded using the Eclipse recording system and if you have good communication and administrative skills, as well as experience of delivering evidence based support to families we would love to hear from you.
The posts are full-time 37 hours between the hours of 8.30am and 5pm depending on location.
Please read our Apply for a job at the council (brighton-hove.gov.uk) pages carefully. They give you all the guidance you need to complete your application as well as information on what will happen after you’ve submitted your application and at interview.
As part of your application, you will need to complete your education and work history and provide answers to some shortlisting questions. Your answers to the shortlisting questions are the most important part of your application as they will be used in the shortlisting process to assess whether you meet the essential requirements for the role that are set out in the person specification and to decide whether you should be offered an interview. Before you start your application, please read our guidance here (Shortlisting questions guidance (brighton-hove.gov.uk) as this gives important advice which will increase your chance of success in the shortlisting process.
Additional information
Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.
We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining. Your contractual location will be the designated council office for your team and travel to and from your contractual location would be at your own expense.
For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us
Company information
Encouraging a diverse workforce
Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.
Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our fair and inclusive actions, our anti-racism strategy and How we create a fair and inclusive workplace.
Please note that this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, and is subject to a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Check.