Engagement Worker
Service: Survive & Thrive and Children’s Trauma Therapy Service
Salary: £25,221 - £27,780 FTE per annum (£15,132.60 - £16,668 per annum for part-time, 22.2 hours per week)
Location: Across the Bradford District
Hours: Part-time, 22.2 hours per week
Contract: 2 years fixed-term contract
Family Action & the Role’s Impact:
At Family Action we support people through change, challenge or crisis. It’s what we’ve done for over 150 years. We protect children, support young people and adults and offer direct, practical help to families and communities.
Are you passionate about listening to and amplifying the voices of children and young people? Are able to engage people across a range of communities and dedicated to improving the lives of vulnerable families? Are you organised, proactive, adaptable, and skilled in building relationships with professionals? Do you have experience of providing advice and signposting and / or community engagement or community outreach work?
The engagement worker will promote Family Actions domestic abuse and trauma therapy work and play a key role in developing and maintaining strong partnerships with professionals and services that support children and young people across the district, providing key information, strengthening referral pathways, and ensuring effective communication and collaboration between agencies. The role will involve liaising with schools, social care, health, and community organisations to identify barriers to engagement, and help create a coordinated, trauma-informed approach to service delivery across the local network. In addition, the engagement worker will collaborate with children, young people and parents to co create aspects of our delivery and ensure that the service user voice, particularly that of children and young people can affect positive change and development.
Main Responsibilities: (for full details check the job description)
• Promoting engagement with and awareness of Family Actions work
• Strengthening referral pathways through liaison with schools, social care, health and community organisations
• Identifying and reducing barriers to engagement
• Engage service users, particularly children and young people in co-production of aspects of service delivery and seek feedback that will support service development
• Proactively build and sustain relationships, effective communication and collaboration with key professionals and agencies across Bradford
Main Requirements (for full details check the person specification):
• Experience of engaging with children and young people and running age-appropriate activities.
• Experience of community engagement /outreach work, advising and signposting.
• Excellent organisational skills and ability to work autonomously, to maximize impact of the role.
• Appointments are subject to Family Action receiving a satisfactory disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Benefits:
- an annual paid leave entitlement that commences at 25 working days, rising each April by one day, subject to a maximum of 30 working days plus bank holidays / of 30 working days plus bank holidays (pro-rata if part-time)
- up to 6% matched-pension contributions
- flexible working arrangements and new starters have the right to make flexible working requests from day one of employment
- enhanced paid sick leave and paid family leave provisions
- eye care and winter flu jabs vouchers
- cycle to work scheme
- investing in your professional development with ongoing quality training and career development opportunities
We are forward looking, ambitious and committed to continuous improvement. We are a people focused, can-do organisation, which strives for excellence in all we do and operates with mutual respect.
Our commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion:
We are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in all that we do and welcome applications from all sections of the community / particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates and candidates with disabilities because we are committed to increasing the representation of these groups at Family Action. We know that greater diversity will lead to even greater results for families and children and strive for our workforce to be truly representative of the diverse communities we support.
All candidates with a disability are welcome to apply under the Disability Confident Scheme and request priority consideration for an interview, provided they meet the essential criteria for the role.
To help remove financial barriers to working with us, we will reimburse travel costs if you are invited to attend an interview in person.
To Apply:
• Click the “Apply Now” link below and fill out our digital application form
• Closing Date: Monday 1st December 2025 at 23:59
For direct queries or if you would like to discuss any aspect of the selection process or flexible working requests, please email: Moji.Alaiyemola@family-action.org.uk
*Ordinarily Family Action appoints new starters at the starting point of the salary scale (with subsequent annual pay progression), unless you have experience that would justify appointment further up the salary scale or there are any other exceptional reasons.
