Healthy Babies Support Worker

All Locations; Luton; Sur place; GBP 24 000 - 28 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

25 days annual leave

8 bank holidays (pro rata)

Enhanced sickness pay

Employer pension scheme

Birthday leave

Learning and development opportunities

Referral payment up to £300

Mental healthFirst Aider

Employee Assistance Programme

Mileage allowance 40p/mile

Résumé du poste

Early Years Alliance in Luton is recruiting a Healthy Babies Support Worker to deliver antenatal to five years services as part of the Flying Start/Best Start Family Hub. You will support new parents, promote healthy infant feeding practices and work across sites in Luton with flexible delivery including outreach and virtual sessions.

The role emphasizes safeguarding, strong communication with health and social care partners, and commitment to engaging diverse communities to improve life chances

Qualifications

• NVQ 3 Early Years Care and Education or equivalent qualification, or in-depth proven experience.
• Excellent communication skills, both in person and in writing, with professionals and families.
• Experience of a successful multi-agency approach with professionals, early help and social care teams.

Responsabilités

• Deliver antenatal and postnatal group sessions and one-to-one parent support at Family Hub sites and outreach/virtual delivery.
• Promote the 1001 critical days and work with midwifery and health visiting services.
• Plan and deliver high-quality universal sessions and evaluate activities to engage parents and their children.

Connaissances

Communication skills

Multi-agency working

Safeguarding knowledge

IT skills

Formation

NVQ 3 Early Years Care and Education or equivalent qualification

Outils

Microsoft 365

Description du poste

We are recruiting a Healthy Babies Support Worker to join the Early Years Alliance team in Luton. The post holder will work as part of the Flying Start/Best Start Family Hub 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. The role is a full year position, and term time is not possible.

• 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 information to families within sessions to encourage breastfeeding and promote responsive feeding to encourage healthy infant feeding practices and the parent/infant relationship.
  NVQ 3 Early Years Care and Education or equivalent qualification, or in-depth proven experience of working with children and families, with a good working knowledge of the EYFS.
• Demonstrable 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.
• Able to demonstrate excellent IT skills, including use of Microsoft 365 including Word, internet and email.
  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.
• A dedicated mental health First Aider to support your mental well-being.
• Access to our Employee Assistant Programme (EAP), which includes 24/7 helpline access, dedicated managers helpline, confidential counselling sessions delivered by accredited specialists, legal, debt and life management advice, discounts, and wellbeing content plus resources.
• Mileage allowance at 40p per mile from an agreed base.