Family Hub Practitioner

Kent County Council; Gravesend; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A local government authority in Gravesend is seeking a Family Hub Practitioner to provide support to children and families as part of their Family Hub team. The role involves working flexibly across various outreach settings to offer 1:1 and group support, while collaborating with multi-agency partners and facilitating peer groups. Candidates should possess strong communication skills and knowledge of child development. Flexibility to work evenings and weekends is required, and there is a commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Qualifications

• Experience in providing support to children and families.
• Flexibility to work evenings and weekends.
• Understanding of multi-agency collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Provide 1:1 and group support to children, young people, and families.
• Work closely with integrated children's services and multi-agency partners.
• Facilitate and support peer groups.

Skills

Ability to support youth and families

Strong communication skills

Knowledge of child development

Job description

Family Hubs are part of Kent County Council's offer to support children and young people, aged 11‑19 (SEND 25) and their families.

Our local Family Hubs offer a broad and integrated range of early help services for families, which include midwifery, health visiting, parenting support and activities for children and young people.

We have 56 Family Hubs across Kent, where we operate alongside our partners to support local communities.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the newly formed Family Hub team in Gravesham District. The successful candidate will operate as a Family Hub Practitioner within the Family Hub team in an agile fashion at a variety of outreach settings (including home visiting) within a district providing 1:1 and group support to children, young people and their families.

The role will work closely with integrated children's services team and with a range of multi‑agency partners including schools, police, district council and community organisations to provide support for vulnerable children, young people and their families.

The post will facilitate and support peer groups and be knowledgeable to support and encourage children, young people and their families to take advantage of the Family Hub Digital and Virtual offer and other routes of advice and guidance. They will be able to provide expert guidance to families about baby and child development to enable parents to support their child as they grow and achieve in health and education outcomes.

You will be expected to work flexibly across the 0‑19 age range (25 SEN).

The role requires you to operate a whole family approach in your practice and work around the times of the family. As such, this post will be expected to work flexibly including, on occasions, at evenings and weekends, and will be coordinated by management as required.

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer‑facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Work that works for you and us—let's talk flexibility!

KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county's working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds, faiths and those with caring responsibilities, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

Please note — if you are interested, please apply soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.