Family Hub Support Worker

We are recruiting for Family Hub Support Workers to join the Early Years Alliance team in Luton. The post holders will work as part of the Flying Start programme, delivering a range of universal and targeted services to families in the antenatal to five years period. It will promote, amongst other topics and services, healthy infant feeding practices, parent infant relationships, and provide wider family support, with the aim of improving the life chances of children. A passion for making a difference is required alongside the flexibility to travel to sites in Luton.

• 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.
• Vitality membership wellness and fitness app – including lots of great health benefits, rewards, telephone, and face to face counselling.
• 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.

• Deliver antenatal and postnatal group sessions/programmes, alongside one to one parent support at Family Hub sites, as well as delivery and outreach sites together with virtual delivery. Actively promote the importance of the 1001 critical days.
• Work closely with midwifery and health visiting services to enable mothers to access the right services at the earliest point in their parenting journey.
• 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.
• Provide support to new parents across Luton’s diverse communities to help develop secure attachments and build strong parent/infant relationships.
• Provide infant feeding support to families within sessions to encourage breastfeeding and promote responsive feeding to encourage healthy infant feeding practices and the parent/infant relationship.

Essential criteria

• NVQ 3 Early Years Care and Education or equivalent qualification, or in depth and recent 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.

All successful applicants will be required to register and subscribe with the DBS Update Service (if you have not already done so) and undertake a new enhanced disclosure and barring check (even if you have an existing DBS Certificate).