ID: 1430 Peer Support Coordinator
Start for Life
Salary: £24,971 - £27,504 FTE (Pro-rata - £14,982 - £16,502)
Location: Medway, Kent - Hybrid working
We typically work across the community throughout the week, allowing time to come together as a team in our shared office space. Our office space is wheelchair accessible.
Hours: Part-time - 22.2 hours per week
We offer flexible working arrangements - please see below for more details.
Contract: Temporary until March 2026 with possible extension subject to funding.
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.
We are looking to recruit a motivated and experienced Peer Support Coordinator to work within our Start for Life service. The programme’s objective is to join up and enhance services delivered through transformed family hubs and across the local community in local authority areas, ensuring all parents and carers can access the support they need when they need it.
Main Responsibilities:
• Provide support to parents and carers so they are able to nurture their babies and children, improving health and education outcomes for all
• Contribute to a reduction in inequalities in health and education outcomes for babies, children and families across England by ensuring that support provided is communicated to all parents and carers, including those who are hardest to reach and/or most in need of it
• Build the evidence base for what works when it comes to improving health and well-being, providing holistic peer support to families.
Main Requirements (for details check the job description and person specification):
• As a Peer Support Coordinator, you will oversee the peer support within our service. Developing a range of evidence based resources and activities to support parents emotional health. The Peer Support Coordinator will have a key understanding of Perinatal Mental Health, looking into areas of need drawing from best practice. They will have the opportunity to build strong and effective networks with other peer support services to embed support in Universal and Targeted services
• This is an exciting opportunity for the right person to make a real difference to the lives of children and their families. The successful candidate will be highly personable, with first-rate communication and organisational skills. A driving license and access to your own car is desirable for this post.
• 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 operate with mutual respect. If you share these values and behaviours and have experience of working with families to achieve the best outcomes for children and young people, we would like to hear from you.
• Appointments are subject to Family Action receiving a satisfactory disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service – Enhanced DBS
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 pro rata
- 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: 1st May 2025
• To learn more about Family Action: Careers
For direct queries or if you would like to discuss any aspect of the selection process or flexible working requests, please email: mariya.zlatinova@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.
