Early Years Health Lead

THRIVE AT FIVE; Redcar; Hybrid; GBP 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A community health organization in Redcar is seeking an experienced professional to enhance children's development through collaboration with health decision makers. The role involves building relationships, co-designing interventions, and supporting strategy development within the health system. Candidates should have relevant health qualifications and strong communication skills. Benefits include pension contributions, generous annual leave, and home-working setup support. This position requires a successful DBS check and references.

Benefits

Pension contributions

25 annual leave days plus bank holidays

Home-working setup contribution

Professional body membership contribution

Enhanced sick leave and maternity pay

Qualifications

• Demonstrated relevant health qualification.
• Experience working with health and local authority settings.
• Excellent relationship-building skills with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Build relationships with key health decision makers.
• Collaborate with health professionals on sustainable workstreams.
• Support strategy and evaluation plans development.

Skills

Health qualification

Relationship building

Written and verbal communication

Knowledge of early years frameworks

Empathy and passion for community

Education

Relevant health qualification such as nursing or midwifery

Job description

We have an exciting opportunity for someone experienced in building relationships and working in partnership with professionals in the health sector to join our team in this newly created role, working to ensure that the potential for children to reach a good level of development is maximised.

Location – This role is community-based in Redcar and the Central and Newport wards of Middlesbrough, with some ability to work from home. There may also be occasional travel to other programme sites (currently Stoke-on-Trent and Scotland) or travel to our London office.

Salary – Circa £50,000

Employment Type – Permanent, 35 hours per week

Team – Redcar &middlesbrough Programme team

About you

We are looking for someone who is able to demonstrate the following:

• Relevant health qualification such as nursing or midwifery.
• Ability to work confidentially in and across health and local authority settings and build effective relationships with stakeholders within early years.
• Sound knowledge of early years and the frameworks that support it.
• High levels of empathy, passion and care for those in the community.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate with different groups of people.

About the role

This role is designed to bring capacity, expertise and additional resources to co‑design, with stakeholders in the health system, interventions and support that they can deliver to help children to reach a good level of development. This role will do this by:

• Building excellent relationships with key decision makers with responsibility for health related to the early years and families such as lead health visitors and designated midwives and helping them to understand Thrive at Five’s vision, model and workstreams.
• Working in partnership with health professionals to build strong and trusting relationships, ensuring there is representation from all parts of the health system to codesign sustainable workstreams which support better outcomes for children.
• Supporting the Director of Programmes to collaborate with Central teams on the development of strategy, implementation and evaluation plans for all workstreams.
• Leading the process to codesign workstreams that enable the high‑quality implementation of evidence‑based interventions through our partners.

About us

Thrive at Five is at an exciting stage, coming up to our 5th birthday. We have grown rapidly over that time and are now expanding into our third and fourth regions, with a growing team of nearly 40 across the country.

Our mission is to help children develop strong foundations for life and learning, in and alongside communities where families face the most challenges.

We do this in two key ways: we empower parents and carers as primary influencers of child development, equipping them with the tools and support they need to be the best they can be for their children. We also foster collaboration across public, private and voluntary sectors to create a more joined‑up, effective early years system. Everything we do is in partnership with the whole community, including senior decision makers, local professionals working with families, parents and carers.

About our benefits:

• Pension contributions – We will contribute 3% and you can contribute 5% towards your pension through NEST.
• 25 annual leave days per year plus bank holidays
• In addition to your laptop and phone provided by us, you can also receive a £100 contribution towards your home‑working set up.
• £100 contribution towards your professional body membership
• Enhanced sick leave and maternity pay (following qualifying period)

Please note that as this role works with children and families this role is subject to a successful Enhanced Level Disclosure check with barred list check through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). If you have any spent or unspent convictions, warnings or cautions and bind‑overs but wish to apply for this role, please advise us in your application. The successful candidate will also need to provide satisfactory references and current right to work in the UK.

To apply for this role, please submit your cover letter and CV by following the Apply Now button. Closing date for applications is midnight on Thursday 22nd January 2026.

If you have any questions about this role, please contact [e-mail]