Family Hub Lead

What will you be doing?

Leading a team of 3 Senior Family Hub Practitioners, you will manage and deliver early help services to improve outcomes for children, while reducing the demand for statutory services, overseeing an integrated Family Hub model within Local Area Partnership areas. You will work collaboratively with partners and stakeholders, building on existing partnerships and developing new service delivery arrangements to ensure a whole-family approach is adopted in assessment, planning, and intervention.

You will be primarily based at One Angel Square, Northampton, but regular travel between Family Hubs in Towcester, Daventry and Northampton will be required, so a driving license and access to transport will be essential to the role.

About you

You don’t need experience across all aspects of the job as that will form part of your development journey, but ideally you will need experience of working with children, young people, and families in a community setting in order to support sustainable change with extensive experience and track record of working and developing similar services.

You’ll need to have a solution driven and adaptable approach to working, thrive in a busy environment with a positive approach to challenges!

Ideally you will have previous experience of working in partnership across the sector with experience of managing and developing a team. You will be able to smoothly manage and implement a new service whilst being able use your own initiative to 'think outside of the box’. You’ll use your great attention to detail to ensure that the team have the resources and support required to carry out their roles.

If you’ve got experience working in a Family hub, that’s great, but not essential; as being adept at building relationships with children, young people, their families and key stakeholders in a similar type environment whilst being able to quickly develop an understanding of the needs of the service and our communities are most important.

Our benefits

We offer a wide range of benefits to our employees, these include:

• Generous annual leave entitlement starting at 28 days annual leave per year, 29 days for senior managers (pro rata, depending on how many hours per week you work), plus bank holidays. An additional 5 days, linked to continuous service, and ability to purchase up to 6 weeks additional leave per year.
• Cycle to Work scheme. 
• Local Government Pension Scheme plus immediate life cover (3 times your annual salary from day one) and ill-health protection.
• Employee discounts with local and national retailers, days out, finance, health and beauty, travel and eating out plus lots more.
• Car Lease scheme
• Payment of professional subscription / membership - If your job description requires that you are registered with or are a member of a professional body, WNC will pay for your professional subscription or membership fees.
• Employee Assistance Programme - We have an employee support programme run by Health Assured, an independent, external organisation. Health Assured is available for you and your immediate family members, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year and includes telephone counselling, legal advice, bereavement support and medical information.
• Ongoing training and development opportunities.
• A variety of flexible working options to support your work/life balance, including full or part time, term time, 9-day fortnight, etc. (subject to business needs).
• Our West Ways of Working – We want our workforce to thrive, and we equip our employees with the right technology to support hybrid and collaborative working, on or off site, depending on the role.
• Making a difference - If you want to use your skills and experience with an organisation that are genuinely invested in making a difference, are committed to improving people's lives, and whose success has a direct impact on the wellbeing of your family, friends and people in your local area, then West Northamptonshire Council is the place for you.

About us

At West Northants Council, it’s about our people. People who thrive with ambition, bubble with new ideas, demand better ways of working, caring about every detail, and who never shy away from a challenge. Our culture is a gateway for new experiences. A place to forge new opportunities. To empower you in your career and unite you with like-minded people.

Our vision is ‘to make West Northants a great place to live, work, visit and thrive’. We truly stand by this and work hard every day to make this a reality. Our corporate values, THRIVE, stand for: Trust, High Performance, Respect, Innovate and Empower, they underpin everything we do and how we deliver services. 

Hear more from our Chief Executive, Anna Earnshaw, about what it's like to work at West Northants Council https://youtu.be/lV0EfeUF4aU  

We are committed to ensuring diversity, equality, equity, and inclusion is woven into the fabric of WNC and everything we do, to enable all colleagues to develop and maximize their full potential.  We are a disability confident employer, a member of the Armed Forces Covenant, and a Care Leaver Covenant partner

The following film was created by us to communicate our intentions - watch WNC colleagues explain what DEI means to us.

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