ID: 1517 Community Engagement Worker
Service: Stroud & The Cotswolds Children & Family Centres (Dursley, Stonehouse, Cirencester)
Salary: Grade 2 Point 16-19: £24,971 - £27,504 FTE per annum.
Location: Stroud & The Cotswolds
Hours: full-time (37 hours per week). x2 posts available
We offer flexible working arrangements - please see below for more details.
Contract: Permanent
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.
We see first-hand the power of family to shape lives, for better or worse, so we speak up for the
importance of family in national and local policymaking, amplify family voices and represent the changing needs of families in the UK today.
You will play a key role in supporting the day–to–day delivery of the C&FC services, though community and stakeholder engagement to facilitating and delivering our universal provision, including the community cafe and having a presence in our C&F Centers that open 8.30am - 6pm.
As a community engagement worker, you will support the creation of innovative Gloucestershire Family Hubs—community-rooted centres offering universal services and tailored support to families, children, and young people across Stroud and Cotswolds.
1. Main Community & Stakeholder Engagement
Build partnerships with families, community groups, voluntary and statutory services (e.g., schools, health, businesses).
Map local assets, identify service gaps, and liaise with community and parent forums to align support.
You’ll help shape and launch community-led Family Hubs across Stroud and the Cotswolds, enabling neighbourhood-level support
Your work will connect families to vital services, bridge gaps, and foster local resilience through multi-agency collaboration.
2. Service Development & Delivery
Help design and deliver universal, open-access services (e.g., Stay & Play, Drop-ins, community cafe) at centres and community venues.
Support Universal Provision and wider operational needs implementation, staffing, and outreach events.
Work with a bank of volunteers to who will support with the universal provision and open access services.
3. Coordination, Administration & Reporting
Support digital/telephone-based service delivery, including troubleshooting.
Assist with planning, monitoring, reviewing service development, and producing monthly summaries.
Create promotional materials and represent the centres at partnership meetings.
4. Safeguarding & Professional Standards
Adhere to safeguarding policies and procedures.
Participate in supervision and appraisal; drive your own development.
Uphold Family Action’s values: people focus, cando attitude, striving for excellence, respect.
Apply Equality, Diversity, Ethical, Health & Safety, and Data Protection policies.
Offer flexibility, including early, late, or weekend shifts.
5. Embrace and implement Family Action’s Equality & Diversity Policy in every aspect of your work and positively promote its principles amongst colleagues, service users and other members of the community.
6. Comply with Family Action’s Health and Safety and Data Protection policies and protect your own and others’ health, safety and welfare.
7. Work flexibly as may be required by the needs of the service and carry out any other reasonable duties as required.
Main Requirements (for details check the job description and person specification):
• Interest in supporting children and families to thrive
• Experience relevant for your effectiveness in the role might be from various sectors and disciplines: Youth Work, Teaching, Community Engagement, Early Years The list is not exclusive and if you are passionate about Communities, Children and Families we would still like to hear from you, even if you do not have experience in any of the listed sectors.
• 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, plus bank holidays
- 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.
To Apply:
• Click the “Apply Now” link below and fill out our digital application form
• Closing Date: Tuesday 26th August 2025 at 23:59
Interviews are scheduled to take place September 2025 virtually, with slots throughout the working day
For direct queries or if you would like to discuss any aspect of the selection process or flexible working requests, please email stroudchildrenandfamilycentre@family-action.org.uk
Our commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion:
We are happy to consider any reasonable adjustments that candidates may need during the recruitment process and you will be asked whether you require any adjustments if shortlisted for interview. We also make reasonable adjustments on the job, where required.
We are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in all that we do and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Intersectionality is important to us and we particularly welcome applications from ethnically diverse communities, LGBTQIA+ candidates and disabled candidates 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. We offer a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role, and will reimburse your travel cost if you attend an interview.
*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.
